Emily Mackay

Rhymes with pie. Writer, Guardian news subeditor, freelance editor. Author of 33 1/3 on Björk's Homogenic.
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[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

What's that inelegant clunking sound? Oh yes, it's me posting on Twitter for the first time in for ever because I have something to promote - namely a story in this gorgeous anthology published by Bannister Press in Toronto.

https://t.co/vBlMoHoYmn

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

Strandline was one of the first things I wrote, before abandoning it, and then returning to it. I wanted to write a selkie story that wasn't naff. Soon turned out I have a heart of naff, but I am quite fond of it whatever

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

What's that inelegant clunking sound? Oh yes, it's me posting on Twitter for the first time in for ever because I have something to promote - namely a story in this gorgeous anthology published by Bannister Press in Toronto.

https://t.co/vBlMoHoYmn

[The Guardian and Observer NUJ @gonuj93]

Live absolute scenes as Billy Bragg (@billybragg) plays an impromptu gig in support of #savetheobserver

🙏🏻 Billy! ✊

[The Guardian and Observer NUJ @gonuj93]

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[The Guardian and Observer NUJ @gonuj93]

Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

https://t.co/2hEnnAfOVK

[The Guardian and Observer NUJ @gonuj93]

"The sale, which I believe is a thoroughly bad thing for the Observer, was carried out largely in secret, excluding staff who might have made a crucial contribution to the discussions" - Paul Webster, Observer editor, 2018-24 @paulfwebster

https://t.co/J2ZmiHTdza

[The Guardian and Observer NUJ @gonuj93]

"Key questions have been left unanswered": Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust

https://t.co/q1XJCxTWg3

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

The original Telegraph headline on this article - which you can still see on the pic on their tweet at the time of me posting this - was quite something.

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

Not all heroes get Flakes

https://t.co/RkmQoQxocE

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

A beautiful, wise and strong piece on a particularly lonely sort of grief by @lisaannewright (a hero)

https://t.co/fGFd6PRGWY

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

I feel just soaked in shame, in the UK right now

https://t.co/dKpY8efWPI

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Arundhati Roy: "For the sake of Palestine and Israel, for the sake of the living and in the name of the dead, for the sake of the hostages being held by Hamas and the Palestinians in Israel’s prisons – for the sake of all of humanity – cease fire now."
https://t.co/NqkmVSmgmT

[Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein]

Here's a look inside Jazmine Hughes's departure from New York Times Magazine, as newsrooms contend with staff speaking out on the Israel-Hamas war:
https://t.co/eCNemoad6e

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Israelis and Palestinians are steeped in a history of trauma. It reproduces and continues | Michael Segalov https://t.co/lQtHPdYrmL

[@katehutchinson.bsky.social @katehutchinson]

I'm giving you everything, all that joy can bring, this I swear...!

I've been working with the brill @spiritlandprod on my first BBC series about the evolution of the girlband, from the 90s to now, hosted by @MollieKing.

Pop it in yer diary – the first four eps drop on 6 Nov.

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

I am dee-lighted to be involved with this unreasonably exciting series. Look how gorgeous the books are!

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Delighted to announce that we will be publishing a new series of short books, taking inspiration from The British Pop Archive currently housed at Manchester’s @TheJohnRylands.

Find out more on our new microsite here:
https://t.co/edvBipGoX0

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

A lot of your content creators don't really seem to understand what POV means, do they

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

The combination of the word "sovereignty" with the word "remix" is unexpectedly hilarious to me

https://t.co/7CGCgjtQVt

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

Private Eye joining the dots to show how the Sun's "journalism" *really* works...

[Emily Mackay @EmilyRoseMackay]

@maltingsyork Surviving! Hard to get a good pickled egg down here though