Jen Stout

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Reporter, author of NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA (2024) - Saltire & Highland book prize winner. Ex-BBC.

[Jen Stout @jm_stout]

"A luminous love letter to an embattled nation" "wonderfully written... vivid, lyrical passages"
Blown away by this review of Night Train to Odesa in today's Observer. Particularly as it's by @lukeharding1968 who is in Ukraine right now, writing brilliant frontline dispatches.

[Jen Stout @jm_stout]

Recent dispatch from Kharkiv in the Sunday Post. Rebuilding & renovation - but in eerily quiet districts threatened by frequent bomber drones. And a librarian creating a haven.
Full text: https://t.co/8wBrUjUbmF

[Jen Stout @jm_stout]

Plant people: Should I lop the tops off my leggiest succulents? They are keeling over.

[Jen Stout @jm_stout]

@IreneMcGrath @CrossCountryUK You could have, but I didn't have any choice!

[Jen Stout @jm_stout]

This is what eye-watering @CrossCountryUK ticket gets you: people standing up in corridors, crammed in to the chemical toilet stink corridor, boiling hot.
Six hours more of this. Magical stuff

[@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc]

The fire in the old Debenhams will likely mean the Gladstone Memorial Library - which was preserved when the dept store opened - will be hugely damaged, if not totally destroyed.

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

"These cuts will irreparably damage coverage," said Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary. "The corporation's leadership should reconsider this rash decision and the government should urgently intervene to maintain jobs and the BBC’s global reputation."

https://t.co/JDzTlNJyRP

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

A brave person I knew was attacked by a Russian drone a few hours ago in Kherson. He died in a hospital.

Two hours later, a hospital was shelled and damaged. A doctor was killed and a nurse injured.

Russians kill people with drones.

Stop human safari.

[Irish Left With Ukraine @Ilw_Ukraine]

5 Irish have now been in killed in action fighting in Ukraine, but many more have been injured.
Calvin Price from Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 is in hospital and needs support
#Solidarity
#Ukraine
https://t.co/vqHOq9yQL8

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Kherson: a Russian drone attacked a family at a playground.

Two girls, 3 and 6. A boy, 13. Their mom, 34.

The same time, another drone hit a car. An hour later, another drone set a car on fire.

Human safari in Kherson. Every day.

📸 previous playground attack
Fire today

[The Sunday Post @Sunday_Post]

Inside today:

• Trauma recovery plan saved Ashley, now her domestic violence charity aids others

• ‘This war is not just about our existence – we also need to live’ @jm_stout reports from Ukraine

• Neighbour reveals harsh reality of new life for ‘woman who died twice’

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Something unthinkable is happening near the middle of Europe. Journalists and analysts who reported on the blatant use of acoustic weapons by Vucic to quell mass protests last year are being indicted, threatened and persecuted for the crime of reporting the obvious

[Al Ryan @alryanradio]

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Kherson—Oleshky: my briefing for @AtlanticCouncil

Thank you @shelbyjmag for your great questions and your compassion.

Please help by watching and sharing:

https://t.co/8RpJUxDmzp

[Gerry Samuels @GerrySamuels12]

There was a crime wave to accompany the heatwave, with burglars exploiting open windows and doors

Burglary rates today are a small fraction of 1976 levels

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Nobel Prize winner @avalaina Oleksandra Matciichuk on the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky / surrounding Russian-occupied areas.

Thousands without food, under 24/7 drone attacks, used as human shields.

Russia ignores international law.

Economic sanctions needed.

[Fuel Publishing @FuelPublishing]

Discover Ukraine through the eyes of Dmytro Soloviov, who spent years travelling, including during wartime, capturing modernist gems from the iconic to the overlooked – some still standing, some already lost. https://t.co/LLaIBgoiy2

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Shamefully, it also denies visas to Sudanese students. And Afghan students. We will rue this in the years to come.

[Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SarahLudford]

.@robinlustig:
“Axing a prog like TWT will save pp, not ££, but cost to disappointed listeners will be far, far greater. And I question whether BBC can afford to alienate its loyal base at a time when is being challenged as never before by billionaire titans of the online world”

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

The scale of the cuts to journalism at the BBC threatens the station’s ability to report the news & provide the expert analysis of the issues our community faces both here and across the globe. It’s a huge mistake. https://t.co/5ztNDrZGG3

[Stephen Moss @StephenMossGdn]

Radio 4 cutting the news at midnight is the end of the world as far as I am concerned. I live for those chimes at midnight and the measured summing up of the day. Killing Radio 4 in pursuit of some digital dream is deranged