Sue Cook

Supporting writers from blank page to bookshelf and beyond. For principal account go to @SueC00K

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

These seven rules for new novel writers are simple, succinct and absolutely essential. I know that sounds like clickbait, but...

[Dr. Joel Brown FRSA @JoelBrownMD]

I embrace my heritage completely.
Jamaican born with mixed but mainly African ancestry and a British citizen.
I love to travel and engage culture all around the world. I have friends from multicultural backgrounds and different religions and I embrace them all.

But I reject the idol of multiculturalism and the notion that racial diversity itself at every level of society is somehow the highest moral goal for all nation-states.

I reject the idea that I can or should be reduced to my "race" for political expediency.

I am not oppressed and I totally reject the idea that I'm held hostage by past terrors of race-based slavery.

I reject racism completely.
I reject any definition of racism that claims only people from a particular race can be its perpetrators or victims.

I reject the idea that we are to confer guilt upon people for injustices of the past because of the colour of their skin. I reject racial resentment towards white people.

I condemn racism directed at black people as well whether in the past or contemporary.

I reject the abject stupidity of calling everyone racist who dares to think against the grain of racialized identity politics.

[Irish Writers Centre @IrishWritersCtr]

Our National Mentoring Programme is open for submissions until March 2nd (One week left!) ⏰

We have a dedicated place this year for a writers from Mayo thanks to @MayoArtsOffice✨

Mayo writers make sure to apply!

[Jack Grealish @JackGrealish]

For you Finlay ❤️

[Prue Leith @PrueLeith]

Thousands of children who don’t quite qualify for free school meals are going hungry. If we cannot afford free school meals for all, at least lets widen it to families on universal credit. A packet of crisps or 2 slices of white bread is not nutrition....

[Ceri Dingle @MsDingle]

WORLDwrite is hosting an online session via Zoom this coming Thursday 3rd March at 7.30pm on ‘Making it in the media’. This is a session for young people aged 16-25 interested in pursuing a media career. To attend email [email protected] + name + age for the Zoom link.

[Carl Skau @WFPChief]

EMERGENCY: In 13 days, #Ukraine has gone from breadbasket to bread handouts. This war is already impacting millions of lives in AND outside the country. @WFP used to purchase 50% of its wheat from Ukrainian farmers.

The collateral damage? Catastrophic global hunger.

[Dan Wootton @danwootton]

Much of the blame for how we ended up locked down lies with the British broadcast media – the BBC, ITV News, Good Morning Britain, Sky News and C4 News – which has never questioned the efficacy of lockdown, only demanded harder, longer restrictions on their viewers’ lives.
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[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Healthy children should NEVER have been vaccinated against a virus that poses less risk to them than flu.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Of 9,470 patients with confirmed Covid currently in English hospitals, 6,106 are being treated primarily for Covid.
3,364 are in hospital for other ailments but tested positive.
Around 1 in 5 will have contracted Covid in hospital.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Bang on the money @MPIainDS

“Sage need to be put back in their box. They are scientists looking at one aspect of this while the Government has to look at the bigger picture. It is not their job to gainsay ministers’ decisions & try to bounce them into doing something different”

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Some actual verifiable FACTS about the risks of Indian variant from the real world instead of a computer model making absurd assumptions. It'll never catch on 🙄
@RossjournoClark in @spectator https://t.co/Oqgn8oB9n8

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

Scientists on committee that encouraged use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” & “totalitarian”

Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about tactics

https://t.co/YZihmhbIEt

[Sue Cook @theWriteLines]

@SueC00K testing testing

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

This is all I’ve tried to fight from over a year ago, the damaging psychological warfare some scientists have waged on a vulnerable population.
I won’t apologise for this.
It was obvious,and the right thing to do,no matter the flack I’ve taken..
I’m gutted they’ve scared so many.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

What Boris actually said was “IF the Indian variant was SIGNIFICANTLY more transmissible, tough choices MAY have to be made”. He could hardly have added more caveats, yet most papers and news bulletins & websites have ignored this and are wallowing in doom & gloom.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

4 people have died of the Indian variant (out of 1255 cases). That is being used as an excuse to prevent businesses operating from 21st June and people earning a living. So wrong. https://t.co/wq31XhLI2o
https://t.co/Cx6Rkynrq9