sophie atkinson

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[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@kevinmarkwick Hello! Could you please drop me a message? I'm writing a piece on the latest developments on the Electric for @brumdispatch and I'd love to ask you a couple of things.

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@IselinCatherine and rereading it properly once a decade sounds like a good idea - i find myself flipping through it every few months to reread favourite parts (the timing of this tweet is funny bc i was flicking through Vol 1 just yesterday) but should probably just commit to a full re-read!

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

Manchester’s Central Library was once considered the British Library of the North. Did a miscalculation in shelving during renovation mean it had to chop a huge fraction of its non-fiction collection? I spent a year obsessing about a rumour from the 2010s https://t.co/mz5b7M3tDj

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@IselinCatherine thank you, this is lovely to hear. That Astra essay is probably one of my favourite things I've ever written ! the scenario you describe (wanting to be an artist/the others on strike) sounds so much like it could be a scene from TMWQ

[The Post @liverpoolpost]

So we sent the indomitable @SophEAtkinson to find out, grilling the residents of one particular Liverpool — in New York state — on their lives in the other 'Pool. Enjoy!

https://t.co/uQufcq2eOI

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@CILIPinfo @IFLA Hi, I'm trying to reach CILIP but nobody is answering your phones or replying to email. Could you please confirm a current contact number/email?

[Samuel McIlhagga @McilhaggaSamuel]

I recently wrote about one man's plan to build a 51 metre high folly next to the M6.

English eccentric, tragi-comic visionary, or highly sponsored Christian conservative? I couldn't make my mind up.

Read it below.

https://t.co/22DpkzWcSD

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

are you based in glasgow...or are you elsewhere and simply enjoy a perfect Yarn. May i direct you to today's @theglasgowbell's look at how beef over fencing in Cathkin Park has escalated to court battles; a loo civil war and manspreading allegations 💯 https://t.co/rkh23KfryY

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

Wrote about retrofitting, which has been sold to us as a luxury extra - but is inevitable, and something that needs to happen at scale!! Especially in Manchester, for all the reasons the article outlines...

[The Mill @ManchesterMill]

"Saying to clients: 'yes, it’s fine to consume as much material as your gloriously Instagrammable open plan kitchen requires' while doing nothing to make the house less consumptive, felt fraudulent": we spoke to architects here about why retrofitting needs to happen NOW. 🧵

[The Mill @ManchesterMill]

Big news: We're in the @NewYorker!

[The Londoner @_TheLondoner]

These are pictures of the conditions at two new blocks of flats in Barking.

The firms that built them were given tens of millions in contracts by the council to do so, after giving expensive gifts and even jobs to councillors.

The council called it a "non-story". Do you agree?

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

This is one of the wildest stories we’ve ever published: two senior university executives agreeing a deal to divert student fee money from a partner in Casablanca to a company that one of them owns. The uni hasn’t denied the claims, which we’ve passed to the police.

[Abi Whistance @abi_whist]

My investigation in today’s @liverpoolpost reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual and domestic violence against its resident historian, Laurence Westgaph 🧵

https://t.co/JUZfrgQjzo

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

@molssimp This PR man Joseph Wheeler's company has been paid £8.2m over the past six years and he seems to have acquired enormous power.

“How has he been allowed to run an entire university?” one senior staff member asks.

https://t.co/5VFKwP5kvi @ManchesterMill

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@junethomas Do it! You're here next week, right?

[June Thomas @junethomas]

I have to admit, @SophEAtkinson's piece about the eternal teapot exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery has made me want to go see it: https://t.co/fNGDMZJdRD

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

@olivercoppard @joshi @CILIPinfo Thanks Oliver, great shout

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

verrrry specific query that i thought would be easy to figure out but am hitting a wall with: who is the uk's leading experts on libraries? who would have a good overview of how british library and other big libraries across the country have evolved over recent decades?

[sophie atkinson @SophEAtkinson]

They wore spandex. They did a workout routine on camera. They smashed their fundraising target - but who were these uniquely generous donors? @jackdulhanty on the jazzercise fundraising miracle of 2020 is unmissable https://t.co/HpV1J4IMLc

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

🚨New on @_TheLondoner: David Lammy's special advisor Ben Judah wrote a strange and disturbing book about London, littered with racial stereotypes, implausible quotes and obvious falsehoods. How did it get published?