Doesn’t Starmer’s repeated reference to ‘working people’ exclude all those who for whatever reason are not working? Do they not matter anymore? Perhaps they never did.
Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation announced - https://t.co/VPc0x2XOYg #GoogleAlerts my late friend Johanna Ekström’s work affirmed by the Warwick prize win
BBC Media Action is fundraising for investigative journalism, yet the app BBC Sounds is now blocked for listeners abroad. Why fund the BBC, with such limited reach? Britain’s influence is waning by the day - a spectacular own-goal.
I’m interviewing @SigridRausing at @edbookfest about this powerful book - the final notebooks of Swedish author Johanna Ekström; edited, translated and responded to by Ekström’s dear friend, Rausing. 2.15pm today - come along!
SRT is charitable trust - we can’t complete these requirements without a consultant, absorbing resources that would otherwise go on grants. Insane bureaucracy, to what end? Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) - https://t.co/i4esjvaFWx https://t.co/fepyOY6cqo
Putin said captured Ukrainian soldiers would be treated like ‘terrorists’, and reports of summary executions, systematic torture, rape and mutilation of prisoners of war give us an idea of what that means. His statement is a blatant justification for war crimes.
@POTUS It’s true. I met President Carter only once, and he unexpectedly sent me a very kind condolence letter years later, when my father died. I think of him with great affection. RIP.
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Writers' Trust of Canada goes to Martha Baillie for her exquisite memoir of navigating mental illness in the family, There is no Blue (Granta). https://t.co/BgsWiDyzqk
@Billbrowder David Lammy- well said! And heroic Bill Browder, who still drives so much of this conversation, resisting state capture and repression by naming individuals involved - he created the Magnitsky law and sanctions list no one thought was possible.
And the Walls Became the World All Around — reflections on a life via @FT
In memory of Johanna, my closest friend. She would have loved this. https://t.co/6pZIdoNzy6