🚨 Ever since we raised money last year, I've been talking to a brilliant journalist in Glasgow about setting up a new title there. To do it, we need a second staff writer, so please get in touch if that's you. Given the drama of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 politics right now, the timing feels 👌.

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis dlvr.it/T6DNGC

'How Far Trump Would Go.' Eric Cortellessa scores two interviews with Donald Trump for TIME, asking him to explain what he'd do in a second term. Read here: time.com/6972021/donald…

A synopsis:

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

I'm excited to announce I'll be starting a 6 month stint as a Deputy Editor on the UK Guardian Opinion desk next week and I'd like to hear your pitches! 🧵

This is a v good summary of how Martha’s Rule should work for hospital patients who think they’re in trouble & not being listened to…

M - what’s the Matter?
A - Ask for help
R - receive a Response
T - I Think I’m getting worse
H - I’m not being Heard
A - Act, call this number

Please spread the word as widely as possible. Calling all English teachers but everyone else too! Theme: A Secret. Judge: Philip Pullman

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Announcing the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize!

Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the prize seeks to give young people a chance to explore new themes in their writing and to get their work published

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Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you - Ana Schnabl theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If you read only one thing today, make sure it’s our Simon Hattenstone ’s piece on the IPP scandal.

This piece is the first in a new series, and it tells the life story of Tommy Nicol, who died in prison while serving 99 years for nicking a car.

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

ICYMI: This is the powerful report that earned Emma Graham-Harrison Sanjana and Airwars recognition an Fetisov Journalism Awards this week: civilian deaths linked to British airstrikes against IS in Mosul theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

. Emma Graham-Harrison & I picked up the second prize in the Outstanding Investigative Reporting category at the Fetisov Journalism Awards, for our Airwars / Guardian series on missing victims of Britain’s airstrikes in Iraq, w/ Joe Júlia Nueno Azul De Monte Latif Habib Imogen Piper ✨

I am so beyond delighted to have won the 2024 Stern-Bryan fellowship. If and when the state of disbelief wears off, all US tips welcome! I cannot wait to get stuck in at the The Washington Post over the summer 🇺🇸

Who was the first emperor of China? Why was he the ‘first’? What was ‘China’ under the Qin? Ep1 The Invention of China with Misha Glenny with Linda Jaivin, Frances Wood, Steve Tsang, tania branigan, me & others - now on BBC Sounds - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Honoured to be in such excellent company.

Job klaxon! We are particularly keen to hear from experienced multimedia producers who can work on both social and website videos. Please see details in the link below. #journalismjobs Hyphen

Qing Ming Festival #清明 , an occasion for tomb-sweeping and remembrance, falls on April 4 this year. Once again I am far from home and unable to sweep my loved ones’ tombs; so instead, sharing a small and most familiar poem.
#everynightapoem

Out now: 'The Mountains Are High,' my second book – a reported memoir about rural escape in Dali, southwest China, and the different ways we find freedom. Press and book talks, as featured in Economist and Guardian: alecash.net/the-mountains-…
Get it here:
amazon.com/Mountains-Are-…

Very sorry to see this news. Hella Pick was a remarkable woman, a groundbreaking and authoritative journalist, and strikingly courteous and generous to younger reporters.