Tried to articulate some of the barriers that come with being a working-class writer for @tribunemagazine. Whether you accept or reject them, it shapes what, how and why you write, for better or worse.
Despite initiatives purporting to promote working-class writing, the publishing industry remains woefully out of touch with the needs, pressures, and dreams of life outside bourgeois Britain. Is another working-class literature possible? https://t.co/UmEkWZSemO
Fully Inebriated Durham Communism is happening TOMORROW
Read @JakeyTrelease on the history of the miners' banners to wet yr whistle.
https://t.co/c3mABhSLcF
Make sure you come along to this by buying a ticket for it then showing it to the person on the door before walking inside Newcastle's glittering @Alphabetti and listening to @GarethDennis, @capriciousmetal@JakeyTrelease, @yazzarf and Lyndsey Ayre in excelsis
200 years exactly since a Geordie invented the modern railway, we've got @GarethDennis coming to Newcastle to talk about how to save the future by building more of them. I don't know about you but my heart is fully erect and quivering
MAKE NEWCASTLE TRAINS AGAIN
Israel's largest arms firm Elbit Systems UK has lost the Watchkeeper drone contract worth over £2 billion following years of Palestine Action targeting the Leicester factory working on the project.
Neil Mitchell, 44, Seaham,
Ismaaeel Rashid, 24, Sunderland,
Ian Gleghorn, 59, Seaham,
Donna Gleghorn, 48, Seaham
Ibrahim Hussain, 19, Sunderland
Samiul Hussain, 24, Sunderland, says: “I think it’s beautiful these are the real people that represent Sunderland.”
The far-right significantly outnumbered by the good people of Liverpool tonight. More coming. Half a dozen racists made to look like absolute fools. This is what solidarity looks like.
Judge Christopher Hehir did not want to send a police officer who raped a woman to jail as an "act of mercy"
Judge Christopher Hehir sent five climate protesters to jail, and denied any of their defences, saying they "crossed the line from campaigner to fanatic"