Incredibly classy move from a WIRED reporter who’s just been fired (for what seems like protected union activity) – completely commendable way to look out for your colleagues and their work. Feels like the kind of person any newsroom would be lucky to have, tbh.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Heard Carol of the Bells for the first time this year and am reminded that this is my favourite season because of all the good choral music that spills out of shops, radios and random train stations

South Asian diaspora mothers are about to be absolutely unbearable today and you know what, let them enjoy themselves

Dress has slightly ripped on the way to an event but it's okay, reading Little Women has trained me for this moment.

I'd forgotten how much I love a deservedly scathing review www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I'd love to read an Iraqi writer's perspective on Dick Cheney's legacy today

My first thought was 'How does this fit into the narrative spun by Matt Goodwin and co'? And then I realised I was only thinking that because of this chap's name. So in a way, their rot has already set in, even within myself.

"Wallace Shawn from Gossip Girl"

Dean Browne

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

'With any art form, if ABC is expected from it, how can it surprise, challenge, develop cultures, reflect and revolutionise the way we see the world?' Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Once again a gentle reminder that brown women can be pretty right wing. Their minority status in the West does not stop that from happening. You don't need to reach for any other explanation.

My favourite theory about Aarom Sorkin is that he desperately wants to write a rom-com but keeps throwing politics or media in there for Plot

I would love to know the conversations the Queen had with Charles about this back when she was still alive

Yeah, I mean, it probably wouldn't really strike people outside the UK, but that is exceptionally blunt for a royal statement.

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

A gorgeous new Simon Armitage poem (Beaded Chestnut) in The New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...

PSA for #FilmSky people! The BFI has made some of its #LFF ‘in conversation’ events available to view for free. Here’s a link to the discussion with Lynne Ramsay: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

LFG www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

Absolutely delighted by the tidbit here that Alan Bennett and Keith McNally had a relationship and that Bennett helped launch his restaurants in NYC

Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

'The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.' (Heaney, Station Island)

happy birthday Sylvia Plath 🎈

Jia Tolentino was clearly an ideal writer for this Jennifer Lawrence profile but the entire thing is laced with the wariness of the guarded celebrity subject. No writer can wholly overcome that. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

'Knightsbridge Nocturne' by Rob Pointon robpointon.co.uk

Incredibly funny how people dream about moving to Dubai and never once talk about Sharjah (which is where....a lot of professionals live and commute in from). So much talk about the Gulf is from people who've only seen the hotels or read about the sheiks and the slums. A fantasy realm.

Interesting day to be working alongside many, many American colleagues with young kids who chose to move to London over, say, Abu Dhabi or Paris

One thing I wonder about, for obvious reasons, is how far we are from mainstream chatter about stripping citizenship from ethnic minorities

This is a measured, weary, cutting piece. I won't cherry-pick a screenshot, there's enough disdain in here for everyone involved. Read the whole thing.

It is weirdly satisfying watching the Palace's media machinery operate unleashed

E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

The 'southeast Asian' mistake is ridiculous but more importantly - the saffron branding in those signs, the 'Hindus for Cuomo' wording is a sharp pivot to tap into fraught divisions in the south Asian diaspora

Excellent piece but it's also notable and cheering that it's in The Spectator

This guy is Senior Political Correspondent at the Daily Express. Good god.

The main outcome of all the Westminster chat on here is that I now really want either a chicken tikka masala or a kebab and it's only half 11

London really, really needs this

'Snow in Bramerton Street, Chelsea' (1925) by Janet Cumbrae Stewart (National Gallery of Victoria)

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

I want everyone to the think of the poor production teams having to act on increasingly unhinged requests. They didn't ask for this. They don't deserve this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"It’s all interesting. It’s never dull, ever, life.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

First interview with Krasznahorkai after winning the Nobel. youtu.be/cM7Pwsu2L8s?...

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE CHECK IT OUT outsidersartsclub.com

In which I talk about anxiety as a motivating force, never being considered for the Booker, and an early novel that's become problematic.