Frank Cottrell-Boyce

No, inheritance tax isn't a double tax on your already taxed, hard earned money. You're dead. You don't pay it. It's paid, to all intents and purposes, by the people receiving the inheritance, who absolutely did not earn it, and don't deserve a massive tax free windfall.

My friend is single, in his mid-twenties, living off his inheritance in central London, member of the Drones Club and somewhat of a dandy. He’s been engaged over twenty times but cannot seem to get married. What is going on? Are women put off by his canny and scheming butler?

'What you have by heart, the bastards cannot touch, they cannot take it from you ... What you don't know by heart, you really haven't loved deeply enough.' George Steiner on the importance of learning by heart. I've seen this countless times, and it never ceases to move me.

Our summer book club is back, with Children's Laureate @frankcottrell_b and author Katherine Rundell recommending books for adults as well as children. This week, we’ve been looking at biographies📚 For adults… Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell The Life and Loves of E…

New Poirot bound proofs are in!! Publishing Oct 24, pre-orderable now!

image taken Somewhere on the Isle of Harris and certainly worthy of a share. This bolt of tweed would weigh approximately 80 pounds in weight equivalent to about 36 Kg. A poignant reminder of the sheer hard work the island folk endured in the production of this iconic cloth

Nicolette Jones picks out some children’s books about summer for the @thetimes

Just got to the Pearly Gates. There were three angels standing there not speaking English. I said to them what language is that? They said we are singing the ineffable orisons of God. I recorded them and took their names. We must confront them. Every time.

Unquestionably the most cheering album cover of all time

Maybe you missed the Unfeasible Katherine Rundell and I talking about @Catwrote, Queen Nanny, women astronauts, Vincent Van Gogh and @matoxley 's book about two stroke engines!!! On Radio 4 Today Fear not! You can always rewind. We were right at the end of today's Today

RIP Tom Lehrer. “I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava”.

Redrawing this simply because it is terrific

Laughing so hard over the irony of this moan to @LBC. A misogynist getting a mere taste of what it feels like to be a woman in a man's world. How many MEN'S games, torynaments, PRIVILEGES have women & girls had shoved down OUR throats, Graham? For CENTURIES? Poor Mrs Graham.

Like so many of us @StuartMaconie watched Get Back and became fascinated with the people around the Beatles who contributed to their story, like the lovely Mal Evans. My dad was an accountant who worked for a while for Apple but he’s not in Stuart’s book shows.acast.com/willy-willy-ha…

I you haven’t yet found and watched #Bookish the wonderful creation from @Markgatiss (UK TV/ Alibi channel) then you are SO missing out on unbridled joy. Be kind to yourself.

Mwaaaahh ha ha ha!! Soon I will be invincible!!!

Trust, News and tech bros - Danny Boyle tells @thetimes he now regrets not featuring more of the BBC in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

27 July 2012. The spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics took place in the Olympic Stadium in London. It was directed by Academy Award-winning British film director, Danny Boyle. Newspaper reviews praised it as a “masterpiece” and “a love letter to Britain”.

Don’t you find it rather impressive and touching that in 1865, when he was poorly between his second and third terms as Prime Minister, Lord Derby wrote a superlative blank verse translation of The Iliad?

Went into M&S. 3 staff working. I said to them “I have just landed at Heathrow Terminal 3” None of them responded with “I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S." We must confront them every time