Alev Scott

CASH COW out now
@HarperCollins
Enquiries: Antony Topping
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@GreeneandHeaton

[Alev Scott @AlevScott]

Very happy to be teaching my first masterclass for @arvonfoundation on 23rd June - do sign up to learn how to weave weird research topics into your non-fiction writing… https://t.co/F4P17PG6x4
Breastmilk fetishists may or may not be involved #CashCow @HarperCollinsUK

[Alev Scott @AlevScott]

Congrats Hannah!! Can’t wait to read this

[Hannah Lucinda Smith @hannahluci]

It's publication day! My new book Hinterlands is out today in the UK (next month in the US, Canada and Germany). Thanks to @ProfileBooks and @AsiaLitAgency, and to everyone who has reviewed it so far. Copies available at all good bookshops.

[Hannah Lucinda Smith @hannahluci]

It's publication day! My new book Hinterlands is out today in the UK (next month in the US, Canada and Germany). Thanks to @ProfileBooks and @AsiaLitAgency, and to everyone who has reviewed it so far. Copies available at all good bookshops.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Most people will never be as good at something in their life as this kid is good at his thing as a child. Mad respect.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.

Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

you have to admire his tenacity. abandoned by his crew, filed under a false name like a man escaping a cyclops, allegedly ensnared by a sorceress, driven to the brink of madness by a siren's song, this man is odysseus but for corporate law

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.

Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.

They knew how to treat her. There was one issue…🧵

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

This from @TuhinChakr is brilliant. That prize winning story from Granta? Turns out it's just a bunch of random whole phrases taken directly from existing text on the internet. Tool allows you to trace those n-grams directly to their source, which is mostly random fanfiction.

https://t.co/Bi03nvSHnx

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

A day after Erdoğan speaks with Trump, he has shut down Bilgi University, among Turkey’s leading private universities, by decree, without explanation. Bilgi had been a thorn on his side. The timing is unlikely to be coincidental. Hours earlier, also after the Erdoğan-Trump exchange, a court effectively replaced the leader of the main opposition party, CHP. It looks like Erdoğan received a green light to turn Turkey into an even harsher dictatorship.

[Iustinianus @57R4705]

En 1942, Hitler, que no toleraba que se fume en su presencia, fue a Finlandia a pedir tropas a Mannerheim.

Durante la reunión, este encendió un cigarrillo. Como Hitler no dijo nada, Mannerheim se dio cuenta de que Adolf no estaba en condiciones de dictar condiciones.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

Brits in Tenerife be like

[Lex Vaughn @AlexaVaughn]

YIKES: The Seattle Times rejected a union request to not replace workers with AI saying "Journalism doesn't mean journalists." https://t.co/5vNVHzRCjY

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane]

Really don’t understand the reasons as to why the third victim of the Golders Green attacker is left out in so many news reports. This sort of thing is fodder to conspiracy theories online, which directly pours fuel on the fire of increasingly rampant antisemitism in the UK

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey, Italy.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Jonathan Gavalas was a seemingly healthy and even-keeled 36-year-old when he began chatting with Gemini, Google’s chatbot, in part to seek comfort about splitting up with his wife.

An analysis of the full chatlog: https://t.co/sMCg2RMigo

[Alev Scott @AlevScott]

My review of A Woman’s Work by Elinor Cleghorn for @EngelsbergIdeas - astonishing examples of maternal sacrifice since the dawn of time, in essence

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

An epic history of motherhood highlights the indignity, violence and injustice faced by mothers, alongside inspiring stories of women who fought against established norms.

Restoring mothers to the historical record | @AlevScott

https://t.co/1akBiS3zZK