The Barley June newsletter is here, full of long reads, interviews, expert insights, and great new drinking. Oh, and ace merch 👕 On the menu of whisky dreams this month…. A thread 🧵

Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories theguardian.com/travel/article…

Camborne, Stockport, East Kilbride, Gillingham/Medway - four more tourist-free towns to enjoy on a summer’s day: theguardian.com/travel/article…

The reconquest of Lancashire Over the Sands - it happens every weekend: inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories theguardian.com/travel/article…

A fifth of England’s constituencies have no right to roam – 103 constituencies out of 543 in England - almost a fifth of the total. Is yours one? See Right to Roam's new list to check, and to find your MP's email: shorturl.at/MyrIf

Ribblehead viaduct from the train:

NEW: 7 of the 10 most deprived areas in England have witnessed riots in the past 10 days. 12 out of the 23 local authorities where violence erupted are in the top decile for deprivation, suggesting a relationship between pockets of poverty and unrest 1/4 Lucy Fisher Amy Borrett

Painful to hear Nick Thomas-Symonds making terrible job of trying to defend the utterly indefensible on BBC Radio 4 Today - deducting prison food & living costs from compensation paid to people wrongly imprisoned is simply obscene. Come on Labour - people expect better

Where tourists seldom tread, part 11: five British seaside towns with hidden histories theguardian.com/travel/article…

Where tourists seldom tread, part 11: five British seaside towns with hidden histories theguardian.com/travel/article…

The First International #GuanacoDay Will Be Celebrated Friday August 23   International organizations & organizations across #LatinAmerica join forces to highlight the important role of the #guanaco and the need to protect #habitat across its range.   bit.ly/4dxQtts

.NORTHERN 🚆 why is it £7 for a ticket online and £14 at the ticket office (single Manchester Vic to Clitheroe)? You not heard of the digital divide? It’s older than your franchise. It’s an outrage - you are ostracising elderly, poor and many others.

Great to see Chris Moss showcase Jaywick and the work of LiFTS_at_Essex student Lelia Ferro in this article about seaside hidden histories. You can catch more of Lelia’s work at the Jaywick Martello Tower Coastal Open, 12 September to 27 October. brnw.ch/21wMamu

'To this day I am not quite sure whether I began by watching the water-voles, or whether it was the water-voles that began by watching me.' Read an extract from The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath. Including much unpublished material, the collection is out on 12 September.

A nasty part of austerity’s 14 years of social and political corrosion is that the state broadcaster puts out leading, “gotcha” style headlines inferring that it’s taking massive liberties that a city that isn’t London should own art of historic importance

Manchester is becoming increasingly homogenised. The things that it celebrates are rarely preserved.

Un ñirre (Nothofagus antarctica) azotado por el viento en Tierra del Fuego, capturado por Álvaro Soto en el Tercer Concurso de Fotografía de la Patagonia en 2017. Desde 2012, hemos organizado este concurso fotográfico. Ya estamos preparando el lanzamiento de la 7ª edición

The FT site headline is “London scraps funding for Euro 2028 stadium upgrade in Northern Ireland”. Not a metonym. Elizabeth Line was £19bn. Stadium a fiftieth of that.

David Peace, whose latest novel ‘Munichs’ dramatises the 1958 air disaster, sits down with Tribune to discuss the complexities of post-war Britain — and the need for socialists and artists to move beyond defeatism. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/david-…