This is a brilliant essay by Ludo Hunter-Tilney on the sadness and the brilliance of Amy Winehouse as she would have turned 40 - and it's very flattering that he mentions TOXIC on.ft.com/44M5p2a

If employers don't want to face having to pay out substantial settlements, they simply should not unlawfully discriminate against people with protected characteristics - including women who believe sex is relevant & to be a woman is to be female.

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Forget the roman empire, how often do you think about the inevitable new dark age caused by our lack of physically recorded material and our total reliance on digital technology for information storage which collapsed

Email to the guardian

'PROTECT & SURVIVE' was a civil defence booklet issued to every home in the UK in 1980, on what to do in the event of Nuclear War.
Yes, it came in the post to every home.
It's 31 pages long and you can download a PDF here: ia801203.us.archive.org/27/items/Prote…

The war of the community notes editors was inevitable. I think I'd much prefer a world where major newspapers with supposedly truth-seeking missions didn't print propaganda for the pharmaceutical industry, call it fact, and then smugly vilify the truth-teller for extra fun.

Do musicians who play private concerts for dictators and tour countries where homosexuality is illegal have a “nasty stain” on their albums? Or just the ones whose concerns about medicalising children are in line with NHS policy? Asking for me

I'm glad to say my legal case has now been settled & I've received the apology below. Many thanks The Free Speech Union, Emma Hamnett of Doyle Clayton & Chris Milsom of Cloisters Chambers for your tireless work to resolve the issues arising from the effective termination of my contract.

Three cheers for community notes. How the Guardian has fallen.

If you've ever said that you would appreciate moderate voices expressing careful arguments on sex and gender, then speak our in support of Reem Alsalem Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls. If you won't, then you were lying.

Lovely evening at Elaine Kasket’s book launch featuring the REBOOT quiz show - all book launches to feature quizzes from now on please!

This gorgeous paperback of #TheInstitution is the WH Smiths Travel bookstore Deal of the Week! So if you’re passing through an airport,ferry terminal,station etc grab a copy! Out today in those spaces, next week in supermarkets, online & book shops! Avon Books UK Hardman & Swainson

Do I want to read Ultra-Processed People, or will it just add to my list of worries?

Look what beauty is #35 in Amazon's hot new releases chart, a whole week ahead of publication!

NIGHT TRAIN TO MARRAKECH by Dinah Jefferies is out 14th Sept from HarperCollinsUK.

There are lots of interesting & intelligent people on here. I learn a lot. But yesterday I came across a quote tweet that totally misrepresented someone’s argument and position - it had 27k odd likes & it does make me think: what’s the point?

‘The Emperor is stark naked as he parades a new suit of clothes spun by a couple of charlatan tailors’ | Don’t miss Rosie Duffield MP’s withering verdict on the Labour reshuffle: unherd.com/2023/09/the-da…

Fantastic shortlist. Particularly pleased to see Hannah Barnes's Time to Think - about the shocking medical scandal involving children at the NHS's 'gender identity' service - has been selected. Congratulations to Hannah and Swift Press.

✨Five years ago today my first novel, The Rival, was released!✨
To celebrate, throughout September I’m sharing a blog post each day about what I’ve learnt. Today’s post is my love letter to writing itself ❤️
#30thingsin5years
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Fabulous! Fearless!! Female!!! Delighted to see UNBRIDLED, an amazing anthology of women's poetry for the times we're in, on sale! The contributors' list alone is a thing of joy to read! The poems - their passion and defiance - are knockout. #UNBRIDLED

womanwordbooks.myshopify.com

Latest brand screwing authors over: AnnaArchivist which directs people to free downloads of books under the excuse of 'free flow of information+preservation of knowledge+ culture'. And yet contributes to the erosion of author culture by rubbing away at our sources of income