As it’s National Dyslexia Week, here’s a blog from the Nikki Wordsmith archives with Jules Styles that touches on this topic in a celebratory neurodivergent way… ...

Spot the girl? How my ten year old self’s football career was thwarted by sexism. And forty years on, how many more doors are open for my five year old daughter to play the beautiful game....

Fortunately, there is one voice that is holding the people who run our country together — Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons – and his voice is pure Lancashire....

Today is the end of an era, after twenty years in Manchester, my old love and close friend Brigitte has left the country... #Love #Friendship ...

This post is part of a nationwide look at England's dialects and keywords and turns of phrase in all 39 historic counties. Today it is the turn of Northumberland....