SCOTTISH JOURNALISTS! A brilliant opportunity outlined in this thread, with a media company who are building something to LAST (long-term vision & view!), within British journalism

FUCK ME, this is good (& moving/funny/maddening)

We don't know for sure yet what Lunate vol. 5 will be... but we sense something already from the hundreds of submissions we've received. An atmosphere. A tone. A voice.

Join us. 🖤

Me and a flock of wonderful women will have new writing in THREAD, a special edition of Lunate in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians. PRE-ORDERS ONLY. Open for just one more week…

Personal post: My husband works at an ace record shop in Bury and they are putting on some amazing shows. Get yourself down there for some tunes and a brew (and/or RT):

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

Away from the politics and posturing, what does it feel like to wake up this morning knowing you may be sent to Rwanda?
Here are the stories of some of those who came here seeking sanctuary, and have had Home Office letters saying they may be deported: channel4.com/news/meet-the-…

Buy this, buy this - Mia’s words will change you (they did me)

Unless blocked, Sunak is going to send c.100 terrified refugees 4,000 miles away in a symbolic gesture that will neither 'stop the boats' nor save him electorally. The main result will be to cause intense pain to a group of people who have already suffered plenty.

Madness. Not to mention prosecution of protesters within weeks, wild push for prison (many serving lengthy terms), while women victimised by male violence wait YEARS, are told paltry sentences are now reason not to imprison these men at all. Are prisons only full to violent men?

I had a beautiful thirty minutes on the phone with Michael Head Official (who I first interviewed in 1989), for The New Cue, about love (the emotion), writing, losing our shoes in the 90s, etc. open.substack.com/pub/thenewcue/…
He’s the best: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Lqyv…

From expanding the Our Pass system so more young people can benefit from it to ensuring critical thinking and citizenship is embedded in the new MBacc, #ListenUp outlines youth designed key demands for the next mayor.

📢Today we're launching #ListenUp - a manifesto created by working-class young people from across Greater Manchester ahead of the #MayoralElection

Young people want a mayor who will listen to them, learn from them and invest in solutions shaped by them.

reclaim.org.uk/listen-up

In today’s The Times and The Sunday Times - Sunday paper of the year! - I’ve written about The Spectator’s massage parlour correspondent and why I think men who pay for sex are no better than rapists

Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse

thetimes.co.uk/article/084b99…

Every childhood matters. We need to ensure every child gets the best start in life and isn’t living in poverty. Happier more hopeful children are the best economic policy we can have for our future. Superb from Terri White

We NEED to be telling more disabled stories. In the press and on the tv. The stigma that allows Pip payments to be attacked AGAIN can only be solved by understanding and empathy. This cannot go on.

Excellent bit of fact-checking/clarifying here