Getting your tax and pensions affairs in order on a Sunday morning is peak adulting.

I wrote a load of substacks this year but this one seems the most relevant to my last comment: open.substack.com/pub/speaking...

I want the sort of job that allows me enough time to read every @newyorker.com feature, while also being also being able to justify subscribing to it #dilemmasofafreelancewriter

My latest for the @theipaper.com on why changes to bereavement leave are very overdue: liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/416...

Case study request: do you live with an elderly parents. How are you dealing with finances? Are they contributing to living expenses?

Black Americans have been trying to sound the alarm for YEARS: the brutality they inflict on us will eventually be the brutality they inflict on YOU

My latest for the Telegraph Money: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/retire...

Went to the shops and what did I get?! No nice new clothes or bag or shoes in the sales. Nope. Acne cream for the teen and sink unblocked. 🙃

RIP Sophie Kinsella - way too young - 😕

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case study request: I’m looking for pensioners/retirees impacted by the state pension increase. Will you be going into your personal allowance? #budget2025

I’ve had a bit of a lull in newsletters but my next one is due to go out imminently and looks at how I pitch ideas and what I’m looking for in press releases - sign ip using the link in my bio: www.komconsult.com

For the Telegraph Money I’m looking for women who relying on their partner’s pension but are worried due to a lack of communication about retirement #casestudyrequest

Case study: looking for women in midlife who are suffering from pension anxiety. Also, #journorequest for UK experts able to talk to me about rising financial and/or pension anxiety among women.

We really need to start talking about what a privilege it is to be able to exercise daily. It’s not something most people can afford or make the time for or actually be able to do physically so I’m just a bit tired of reading about it.

Families are being failed by a lack of SEND support - the system is woefully inadequate. @propjourn.bsky.social reports on EHCPs and tribunals. #SEND communitylivingmagazine.com/how-to-get-a...

My piece ib tbr @telegraph about the over-55s accessing their pensions early www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...

My piece on EHCPs for @communitylivingmagazine.com is now free to view: communitylivingmagazine.com/how-to-get-a...

Loved being involved in this issue providing an overview of the EHCP process.

Two down one to go…features filed I mean 🙃 #journolife

I’m still looking for data on why over 55s are taking their pensions early - data not anecdotal evidence #journorequest

If you want to know what gaslighting is go and take a look at the trolling on @london.gov.uk’s social media. I suspect that most Asian people will be able to relate on some level.

Normal People author Sally Rooney has been advised she 'can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest' due to her support of Palestine Action 👇

This is just horrendous: liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/392...

Well fuck variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Looking to speak to UK fashion brands (large and small) affected by Trump’s tariffs for a piece in Drapers #journorequest #tariffs

My business rates feature in this month’s Drapers : www.drapersonline.com/insight/anal...

I’m looking for people in the mid to late fifties who have decided to access their pension pots early in order to meet rising costs of living, school fees, mortgage repayments etc. For the Telegraph money. #journorequest

My latest piece for the iPaper looks at the stigma still attached to GLP-1: Source: The i Paper share.google/bFaKBnwXBKxg...

Side note: that must have been quite a pad for £800k

My primary impression of Rayner's arrangements regarding her child was what an amazing example of a "good divorce" this was and how dedicated both her and her ex husband obviously are to their co-parenting responsibilities and their children's welfare. I have not seen this mentioned anywhere once.

A shame to see lovely Hove hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons…

Hello people who like to wave St George’s flags in front of hotels housing immigrants. Might be best not to do so while blaring our Queen songs…do they know he was the child of immigrants?! The mind just continues to boggle…

Different ethnicities have different challenges around weight loss. Notice how a lot of the judgment towards Serena being open about using jabs to lose weight is coming from white women.

I’m looking for Menopause doctors who prescribe weight loss jabs to women

Hello! I’m looking for women who are on weight loss jabs and haven’t told their friends/family/partners. For the iPaper. Thanks #journorequest

I’m looking for people who’ve decided to put home buying on hold because they are worried about the potential IHT implications. #journorequest

“Families were telling me they were resorting to eating grass, or finding animal feed. The stuff you’d give to goats and horses,” says British aid worker Shaima Al-Obaidi https://trib.al/dIANf5o

Uni :3

My planning feature looks at whats hindering more housing…https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/best-laid-plans/5123900.article

Hello, I’m looking to speak to fashion retailers for a piece for Drapers on business rates #journorequest

Another one from me for the iPaper: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Hello, I’m looking for personal trainers who are training women who are on Mounjaro or similar weight loss drugs. TIA #journorequest

C’est l’honneur de Rima Hassan de refuser de participer aux opérations de propagande du régime israélien. Sa détention est illégale : elle doit être libérée sans autre forme de procès. L’inaction d’Emmanuel Macron pour obtenir sa libération fait honte à la France.

I’m old enough to remember when Chelsea Girl became River Island and the excitement of that first store opening near me with all the island trinkets. I also know exactly where they’ve gone wrong. The quality in RI is still great but the image not so much. No one was going into the shops.

For those of you struggling to find the @TimesLaw page after @thetimes.com website redesign, you need to click on ‘UK’ and then ‘Law’: thetimes.com/uk/law

Shock and inaction is numbing communities to these killings insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/s... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Murder @kwajo.bsky.social

What do people expect 53 to look like? That’s all I keep seeing in the comments on Paul Doyle stories. I’m about to turn 55! 🤷🏽‍♀️