What's got my attention this week #31
Welcome to the first links and recs round up of 2024! It's so good to be back
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• 80% of Forbes’ most powerful women are over 50. Always the look of surprise.
• “Growing up, my body was a punchline.” Love this extract from Kate Manne’s upcoming book, Unshrinking.
• The power of having a personal uniform. £
• Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh died this week. Her legacy was marred by controversy, but I was shocked to only discover in her obituary that she was exonerated by the High Court in 2021. Call me naive, but surely that should have had the same column inches as the “scandal”?
• I read two wonderful pieces about home: Is Home a Place or a Feeling? by Seven Senses and Thinking About Home by Poorna Bell.
• Fantastic read on age-g…