URGENT: IF YOU CAN, MAKE YOUR WAY TO BRAND STREET G51. A mum with 3 kids detained to be moved and deported. Absolute hell out there.

‘An urgent and vividly told exploration of the underside of modern life, Wasteland also reveals what a better future could look like’ - David Farrier on WASTELAND by Oli Franklin-Wallis. Out now in paperback >> simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Wastelan…

(Future of) Earth Day reading

Had a brilliant walk with Benjamin Thomas White on Ben Ledi today, emerging through the clouds at the summit.

as we turn to matters of escalation - a timely reminder of the slow, intimate and infinitely cruel violence that is the beating heart of this 'conflict'

‘An urgent and vividly told exploration of the underside of modern life, Wasteland also reveals what a better future could look like’ - David Farrier on WASTELAND by Oli Franklin-Wallis. Out now in paperback >> simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Wastelan…

I loved Cuddy (and not just because I come from Chester-le-Street). Congratulations Benjamin Myers!
Someone should do a thread of the author dressed as his book covers.

Start an online stooshie; pitch to the Telegraph. It's a grift.

I mostly get messages from retired engineers in the Midwest, informing me that I mixed up tons and tonnes on p.81.

I received a lovely email today from a reader who enjoyed Footprints. People who love books, please do this! Make an author's day!

This is utterly shaming for the world's 6th largest economy. 15 years of Tory vandalism and kids are paying the cost.

theguardian.com/education/2024…

A few weeks ago there was a huge debate about whether Labour's now ditched £28bn a year green investment plan was 'affordable'.

'This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.'

Melanie Ward speaks with Isa Soares about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel's blockade is causing in Gaza

45 today and there's grey in my beard, but I'm wearing a t-shirt with my son's band on the front.

If I wrote a book about photography and climate change, would that be something you'd maybe read?

'In the first few hours of my work I treated an approximately one-year-old boy. His right arm and right leg had been blown off by a bomb, and flesh was still hanging off the foot. He had a bloodstained diaper, which remained, but there was no leg below...' newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a…

Very unsettled by Cllr Scott Arthur 🌍🌈🌹's proposal removing 2km of favourite cycle path in Edinburgh. I use this path EVERY DAY on foot or on bike and love the peace and quiet offered by the vehicle- free route to Haymarket from Granton. Council meeting TODAY to decide. Email yours!

I've been struggling (again) with anxiety this past month. It flares for a few days, goes quiet for a week or so, then flares again. I'm trying to learn the triggers, but it is so tiring.

My boy's band played at King Tut's in Glasgow tonight!! Some fairly big names have played on that stage.
#lowtide