Chitra’s back! Rejoice, rejoice - and probably give her a follow.

This is amazing advice not just for screenwriters, but for authors.

This is such a great development, and I’m excited to read the first issue. Congratulations to all at the Jhalak Prize writersmosaic and The Bookseller who’ve made it happen!

Look how beautiful these postcards are!

If you’re at all interested in climate crisis, activism or the unsettling power of billionaires, this one’s for you. Though it’s also a stunninh look at the agony of parenthood, the bid for redemption and the thirst for glory…

THE UNBOXING OF THE PAPERBACK.
Do you see?
As I’ve been saying to the kids at such moments for 20 bloody years now - ‘you see, Marty? You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it!’
They reply - ‘whatever, Boomer.’

Best thing about Spring? My view from the living room window.

I first read Kate Grenville’s Booker-shortlisted The Secret River on the train to my initial interview with Canongate, many years ago, and I’ve loved her writing ever since.

Beyond excited to see her get this chance to be the second *ever* double-winner of the Women’s Prize!

Love this so much.

There are very few authors who can write as beautifully as Malachy Tallack AND record a full album (alongside some of the best musicians in Scotland) to accompany it.

Check out the link below to learn more about the novel, and hear some sample tracks. Perfect Monday listening...

Interesting job here for a canny Comms mind…

This is spot-on. The amount that gets weighed and dealt with in just 10min with an experienced GP is properly unfathomable. To the uninitiated it looks like nothing very complex can have happened. But if you know, you know (it's just a crying shame our policy makers don't know).

Sunbathing and heat haze was not what I was expecting in the hills today, but it’s what we got. Perfect weather, perfect day.

“What else do we call this other than the deliberate dehumanization of the Palestinian people?”

I called out media bias and racism, on Gaza, and brought receipts!, in the opening monologue of my new show #MehdiUnfiltered today.

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From the government whose greatest hits include the meteoric rise in food bank use, fuel poverty, kids too cold & hungry to learn, falling life expectancy & the deliberate destruction of the NHS.

Victim blaming & pure, naked cruelty.

For shame, Rishi Sunak.

More great, straight-down-the line comms here, in response to media misinformation.

I’m increasingly convinced that allowing people to speak like actual humans, rather than issuing statements in formal language no one uses day-to-day, is the only real way to handle this stuff.