Journalist friends, please respond to the UK government's consultation on late payments and poor practices. The NUJ has responses to help your submission. This is an important opportunity for every freelance journalist. #StopTheFreelanceRipOff: nuj.org.uk/resource/stop-the-freelance-rip-off.html

Can anyone spare any £ for legal fees for the October hearing?

Peckham is fighting Berkeley Homes's plans to build a huge tower block development on Rye Lane with 16 densely packed blocks up to 20 stories high. Just 50 of the 867 new homes are allocated as social housing. Southwark Council said no but it's going to appeal. www.crowdjustice.com/case/acapeck...

🚨 Kenrex, which remains the best play I’ve seen so far this year, is getting a bigger run from December.

I love snippets into writer’s formative lives: here, that Alan Hollinghurst read Lord of the Rings six times successively.

Was hoping to switch between reading The Line of Beauty and listening to it but… the audio… I just can’t. Alex Jennings narrating….

Japan has an entire magazine that is just cat manga. I think @philipsimon.bsky.social needs this for research.

Missed this story about Lebedev begging Musk for money for the Standard. Vile. Via @londoncentric.media

Five alarm fire. Goodbye Jimmy Kimmel, @karenattiah.bsky.social — and press freedom. Follow @rbreich.bsky.social if you don’t already to see how all this works. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

oof

Cryptics tonight. Montpelier pub, Peckham, 18:30. Come! You might enjoy it.

dream gig

This is a gorgeous article by Charlie Porter on his late artist mother Pat's first exhibition www.ft.com/content/4e02...

I really want to rehome this Remploy dresser. Anyone interested?

Brits are incredibly lucky we can walk almost where we want

Perfect week to buy @guyware.bsky.social ‘s Peckham Experiment people.

Perfect week to buy @guyware.bsky.social ‘s Peckham Experiment people.

Brits are incredibly lucky we can walk almost where we want

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

This👇 and just what are Guys & St Thomas management .. the present CEO is a certain Amanda Pritchard formerly nhse ceo, trust board, NHSE & DHSC going to do to protect frontline nhs staff exposed to this intimidation??

I AM DOWN TO 26,000!

Brilliant review of a review here: “This review could have reached in many directions but chose MacDiarmid, not to illuminate my book but to overshadow it. The comparison itself reveals the habit — authority transferred to the male poet with a pen in his hand over the woman with a hammer in hers”

Awesome.

I really want to rehome this Remploy dresser. Anyone interested?

In what is absolutely not news to anyone who knows, this is simply the *most* delightful book - RC Sherriff’s The Fortnight in September - which I’ve eked out this past week after starting it during my own Weekend Away in September last weekend in Helsinki.

Safe to say, not all London lines are packed on continuingtubestrikeday

AI can’t write good book reviews yet, says book reviewer (me) on.ft.com/4m9qT1m AI can’t write good analyst research yet, says analyst

Illegitimate PM Kobakhidze says: this must stop, 20 people cannot keep closing the city's main street and bothering citizens. This will stop. Oh, darling, this is the episode I've waited for months 🔥 Stay tuned for the series finale! #GeorgiaProtests

Unpopular opinion, even in my own house, but I’m not an e bike fan. They’re too powerful and people with little experience of cycling ride them too dangerously. That said, I know they can be useful.

I set my 10yo the inbox clearing conundrum as a maths Q. Her verdict.

Thanks soooo much for all the pre-orders so far 🙏 If you haven't ordered yet, there's still time! 🏁 Here's the link to get yourself a copy: 🔗 unchcrosswords.com

Has anyone with 60,000 emails in their inbox ever done sth about it? And survived?

Who says media is dead? New (admittedly niche) crossword magazine INCOMING! Order yours NOW.

All this time I thought I had been deleting emails, I had merely been archiving them, and now my new laptop's storage is instantly full. I hate modern life.

Anyone order a cat in a box?

Good morning from Saturday where I was that swimmer in the cabin window.

Ok, so today I received the kind of financial blow that would have anyone reaching for a begging bowl. But I'm not doing that. Instead I'm suggesting anyone who feels they could spare a bit of cutter to buy something off my Bandcamp page, eg andylewisuk.bandcamp.com/album/51

Who saw that recent minute cryptic clue? Which I literally just saw!

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

London skyline framed by Frank’s. Please don’t let it disappear behind a monstrous Berkeley Homes development that doesn’t benefit Peckham.

Sure *you* all read, but I got so bored of people telling me they never read any more that I wrote this massive piece about why so many find making time for a book quite so hard. Please do read it. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/b...

Does anyone have a reasonable £ Glasgow hotel rec for me and my teen for one night in Nov for a taekwondo competition? Breakfast is important - for him!!

Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...

Has anyone else had trouble getting verified for messaging on here? It simply won’t recognise my bankcard and refuses to take a photo of me. (Am trying not to read anything into that…..)

JOB HUNTING Okay, I am thoroughly fed up with the marketing agency 'space'. I can do proofreading and light copy-editing, and know more about MS Word than most people. I have an eye for page layout, and rusty but quick-to-refresh familiarity with InDesign, Quark, Affinity, Photoshop. 1/2

Just got a parking ticket for parking in a loading bay because apparently you can’t unload items for a charity shop and load items you’ve purchased from a nearby shop and not get a parking ticket. Maybe I need to look up the definition of loading.

Sure *you* all read, but I got so bored of people telling me they never read any more that I wrote this massive piece about why so many find making time for a book quite so hard. Please do read it. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/b...

Are you a TA/HLTA in the West Country? Did inset/first days back go badly? Looking for a change and to come and work in a lovely inclusive school in Bath? 3 days left to apply for this HLTA (Literacy/EAL) position 👇 Please RT / pass on to anyone who might be interested.

I AM ON MY OWN IN THE HOUSE.