A salve, as always, @kathleenjamie.bsky.social

We are thrilled to have won the Podcast of the Year award at the Scottish Press Awards. Huge congratulations to our co-editor, @karingoodwin.bsky.social!

Still some places left folks! Come!

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This May, spend a week in Devon exploring essays—a form with limitless possibilities. Tutored by prizewinning journalist, essayist and non-fiction writer @chitgrrl.bsky.social, writer and publisher Will Rees, plus special guest @briangdillon.bsky.social. More info: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Loved doing this.

Loved chairing and participating in this discussion of the great Hanif Kureishi with his official biographer @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social and Mohammed Hanif for @writersmosaic.bsky.social introduced by @colincraiggrant.bsky.social listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/75lx...

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Also: @palebackwriter.bsky.social on Ukraine @gordonbuchan.bsky.social on his love of Scotland Selali Flamanya on wild swimming in Scotland @chitgrrl.bsky.social on the Real Food Cafe Michelin-starred Stuart Ralston’s sesame roast recipe And more…

Because you clearly haven't read enough about it yet... my @theguardian.com review of With Love, Megan www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Silver winter light in the northern corries of the Cairngorms yesterday. And look at that fabulous expanse of pine forest lapping the feet of the big hills. Pulls my heart northwards… (Images by my parents, who were up in Coire an Lochan)

The word “spat” is a kind of gaslighting. We all saw what it was.

Fancy a stay at the gorgeous Gladstone's Library to work on a new writing project? You've got until Friday to apply for the Freelance Writing Jobs bursary. freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/the-freela...

BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

Was delighted to do this interview with the maverick Jonathan Nunn in his equally maverick @vittles.bsky.social about my life and work as the restaurant critic for the Scotland edition of @thetimes.com

"It would have taken little money/effort to remove bunk beds from single occupancy cells, & doorstops could have been replaced with anti-suicide alternatives.The bunk beds & doorstops were still in Polmont when the FAI began 6 years later." Last punt of my LRB longread. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My @theguardian.com TV review of the excellent Motherland spin off Amandaland is up. Highly approve of the headline... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"waitrose finest Cornish mature vintage cheddar" is an anagram of "rev, the stationer's wife charmed a dancing suitor"

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Thinking today, and every day, of my dear friends Henry and Ingrid Wuga. Holocaust survivors. Kindertransportees. German Jewish refugees. Magnificent humans. The subjects of my last book. My friends. #holocaustmemorialday

Love Wrong Norma. What a book.

Love this podcast

My @timesscotland.bsky.social restaurant review of the incomparable Kinneuchar Inn. Perfect.

Hello there, we're Westwell 👋 We're located just beneath the Pilgrims Way on the North Downs in Kent. All our wines are made on-site from fruit grown on our estate. Our philosophy is simple: plant well, respect the soil + make great, honest wines from brilliant fruit.

Just one place left on my online Moniack Mhor course on memoir running in March! And the guest writer is the fab @amykey.bsky.social! More info here: www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2561...

This Thursday! At Porty Books! Join us!

Starting the year with some hard hitting journalism: my @theguardian.com TV review of Gladiators Celebrity Special... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

God yes

The definition of courage and dignity. What an astonishing person.

Congratulations to @gracedent.bsky.social! Excellent news! www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

I think we as a nation are, finally, ready to talk about Bruno.

UK writers of any kind: see below

Yes it's that most wonderful time of the year when journos / writers get to file copy in front of mediocre Christmas movies!

People of Glasgow and beyond! Sign this petition!

Hahaha!

Spotted this window display during a jaunt around Beccles earlier today. I... I... I have no words.

Remembering Edna O'Brien born on this day 1930: “We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...”

A beautiful tribute to the great Nikki Giovanni by the great @colincraiggrant.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Well. Mabe Fratti is astonishing isn't she?! Love going through the albums of the year and making new discoveries.

Oooooooooh!

This is outrageous! BBC News - Thames Water: Boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can't wait to see this film

A rare 30 / 30 for Gloriosa this week. The perfect restaurant, in every way.

This is a great podcast by @judebarber.bsky.social and @louisewelsh00.bsky.social. Privatisation is the scourge of flourishing public life and a civil society. Give the Clyde back to the people!

Ffs

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

Why The Guardian’s Observer Sale to Tortoise Will End in Tears bylinetimes.com/2024/12/04/r...

God this is so grim.