Kat Brown
@katbrownwrites.com
Freelance journalist and editor, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
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Kat Brown
@katbrownwrites.com
· Feb 2
I was so excited to celebrate It's Not a Bloody Trend's birthday this morning, only to discover that it was actually...yesterday. Anyway, my book on (you'll be shocked to hear) ADHD is one today!
"People aren't complaining because she's female, but because she is utterly incompetent," Kemi Badenoch tells the Deputy Speaker and Chancellor, with a blithe lack of self-awareness.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"People aren't complaining because she's female, but because she is utterly incompetent," Kemi Badenoch tells the Deputy Speaker and Chancellor, with a blithe lack of self-awareness.
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The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
I'm rooting for "clangermare" or a "buggerupclangermare" for the OBR particularly
what is more shambolic word than "ommishambles" to describe a Budget, asking for a friend
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm rooting for "clangermare" or a "buggerupclangermare" for the OBR particularly
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Excited to say that’s it my very first day as Head of Publishing Administration for the Office of Budget Responsibility. Exciting things to come!
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Excited to say that’s it my very first day as Head of Publishing Administration for the Office of Budget Responsibility. Exciting things to come!
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on the other hand this is great news for people who are recording some topical comedy about the budget at half past one
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
on the other hand this is great news for people who are recording some topical comedy about the budget at half past one
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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
A romantic story for 08.59. I lost a gem out of my specs and had resigned myself to being gemless. My husband got home and opened a parcel. It turned out he had looked up what size it might be and bought a packet of gems to see if any fit. One did, and I am so happy - and he is a very good man.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A romantic story for 08.59. I lost a gem out of my specs and had resigned myself to being gemless. My husband got home and opened a parcel. It turned out he had looked up what size it might be and bought a packet of gems to see if any fit. One did, and I am so happy - and he is a very good man.
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Dear grad students,
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Dear grad students,
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
Reminder: it’s also totally fine to ignore your [uncle] who thinks your research is a waste of time and resources. You don’t owe people an explanation! They don’t have to get it!
Or, as someone told me as a life-changing piece of advice: reasons are for reasonable people.
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Some more Stranger Things rewatch thoughts. Obviously the first season is one of the best things Netflix has done and a truly lovely bit of TV but I think the second season is hugely underrated in how it manages to make the multiple plotlines separate, but not in a contrived way.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Some more Stranger Things rewatch thoughts. Obviously the first season is one of the best things Netflix has done and a truly lovely bit of TV but I think the second season is hugely underrated in how it manages to make the multiple plotlines separate, but not in a contrived way.
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I made all the Spectator's podcasts for a couple of years (2016-2018) and in those two years we didn't once cover 'the trans debate'. Not once. I find that mind-blowing now.
The trans issue is particularly instructive because you can actually see how the spike in anti-trans newspaper articles significantly anticipated any shift in public polling. It very much started in the U.K. as an elite obsession.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I made all the Spectator's podcasts for a couple of years (2016-2018) and in those two years we didn't once cover 'the trans debate'. Not once. I find that mind-blowing now.
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
This is totally amazing - as is Zombies, Run! which, along with Alex Heminsley’s book, Running Like a Girl, got me into running. Will never forget puffing along the towpath in Wapping and nearly falling into the Thames because *Margaret Atwood* suddenly turned up making a cameo!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is totally amazing - as is Zombies, Run! which, along with Alex Heminsley’s book, Running Like a Girl, got me into running. Will never forget puffing along the towpath in Wapping and nearly falling into the Thames because *Margaret Atwood* suddenly turned up making a cameo!
My friend Emma gave me this smashing shirt for my birthday - and if you should ask me this today, I’ll say “My own bloody book!!” because I’m off to record the audiobook of No One Talks About This Stuff!
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My friend Emma gave me this smashing shirt for my birthday - and if you should ask me this today, I’ll say “My own bloody book!!” because I’m off to record the audiobook of No One Talks About This Stuff!
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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
A completely fascinating doc with Chris McCausland on bbc two now showing how he uses AI and phone apps to help him get around (“My wife never compliments my T-shirts!”) This is the sort of amazing thing AI should be used for, not replacing creativity or nicking people’s work.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A completely fascinating doc with Chris McCausland on bbc two now showing how he uses AI and phone apps to help him get around (“My wife never compliments my T-shirts!”) This is the sort of amazing thing AI should be used for, not replacing creativity or nicking people’s work.
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Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. Acrylics on canvas. I used a lot of cadmium red in the mahogany woodwork.
#caricature #art
#caricature #art
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. Acrylics on canvas. I used a lot of cadmium red in the mahogany woodwork.
#caricature #art
#caricature #art
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I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Late autumn sky on a clear day is so lovely. With that, and beech trees still in colour and holding onto their leaves, it’s like a wonderful light show.
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Late autumn sky on a clear day is so lovely. With that, and beech trees still in colour and holding onto their leaves, it’s like a wonderful light show.