Hannah Westwater

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Policy and comms whizzes – come be my boss! SDF is a genuinely brilliant place to work full of sound people (and me) who count themselves lucky to be there.

In belated ✨professional news✨, I said goodbye to freelancing a couple of weeks ago – am now in post as editor of an exciting new peer-led magazine at @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social. Delighted about it. And still all ears for any relevant tips!

‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trend

In today’s Observer I went to Stornoway on Lewis to talk to people about their local Tesco opening on Sundays.

The row has been painted by some as extreme religion versus progress - but I found a more complicated story about community, tradition and civic pride:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Mark Zuckerberg announced that fact-checking will soon be a thing of the past on Facebook and Instagram. 📲

It means everyone must learn how to find information away from social media, experts said. @hannahjtw.bsky.social reports. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4jtLUUp

Just steps from Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, a UK-first drugs pilot is preparing to open its doors. 🚪

The safer drugs consumption room will finally launch on Monday after a decade of legal manoeuvring. 📄

@hannahjtw.bsky.social takes us inside... ⬇️
https://bit.ly/409I3TF

Inside the UK's first safer drugs consumption room – and how it can save lives The Thistle, Glasgow's safer drug consumption room, launches this month. It's a radical step in tackling Scotland's drug deaths crisis.

I visited Glasgow's new safer drugs consumption facility, The Thistle, ahead of its long awaited opening:

Sexually explicit deepfakes ruin lives – a crackdown is long overdue New laws to protect women and girls are an important step, said Hera Hussain, but police must be trained to help deepfakes survivors.

I spoke to @herahussain.bsky.social about the move to criminalise sexually explicit deepfakes, the pitfalls of policing and why different cultures need to be recognised in the legislation:

After nearly three years, this is my last week of freelancing before I move onto something exciting – fittingly I'm spending it at my old stomping ground @bigissue.com

Need a starter pack for the specific vibe I am interested in, which can be summarised as people with serious jobs who also understand and care about the significance of the Sushi Park balcony in Los Angeles California

'Cruel' winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned Axing the winter fuel payment for nearly 10 million pensioners will drive down old people's health and hit the NHS, the DWP has been told.

Proud to join other voices pushing for an overhaul of yet more divisive spending cuts amidst everyday austerity. Thanks @hannahjtw.bsky.social @ The Big Issue for your work on this: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

This is interesting. NPR left Twitter six months ago and saw only a single percentage point difference in traffic despite having over 8 million followers. (Algorithmic changes meant people weren’t seeing/engaging with their tweets anyway) niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Bestie in law follow me back right this minute god damnit

if you’re glaswegian (or not), you can donate here to help a family from gaza that has arrived in our city! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-a-newly-arrived-gazan-family-in-glasgow?qid=b92860336e4f6ee669e977598f435c39

Ben Doak is gonna be a superstar when that frontal lobe develops

👋 Hi new followers! Thought I would jump on the bandwagon and introduce myself…

I’m a freelance journalist based in Scotland and mostly working for UK outlets like the Guardian/Observer, BBC, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and lots more.

UK charity declares ‘refugee homelessness emergency’ as numbers hit record high Naccom report says gaps in state support have led to more than 1,940 refugees having no accommodation

⚠ 99% increase in refugee homelessness in the last 12 months.

The number of migrants and refugees experiencing homelessness is at RECORD levels according to NACCOM (The No Accommodation Network).

🧵 breaking this down.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Nice one thank you!

Anyone got any good starter packs or feeds (if the latter are shareable…??) on Gaza/Palestine? This is nice and all but it’s feeling pretty isolated from reality. Like we’re all just waiting to lose our minds over the next Susie Dent burn

A small starter of a few posters in/posting about Gaza

Ha ha ha this might work if the problem wasn’t specifically that they’re categorically not doing that 🙅🏻‍♀️

Jimmy could do absolutely anything, be as minimally creatively inspired as they like, forever, and I’d support it (I say, not going tonight)

a band that knows they’ve now got grown millennial fans with grown money on one side, younger fans who never got to see them originally and who don’t question eye-watering ticket prices on the other, and that at least for now they’re still too big to fail. Boring!

Well first of all, grumble, but really they reunited five years ago and have released ONE SINGLE (great) SONG in that time. But have no issue doing repeated big money nostalgia tours. Cash grab criticisms would be way louder if it was anyone else imo. It’s all very much the behaviour of

I did largely give up on posting anything work related (or much else) on Twitter in the past couple of years so maybe I’ll find the will here. Maybe not. Keen to cultivate a vibe here that is less everyone-live-tweeting-an-ep-of-GBBO than it currently is

So far have a following on here that’s a mixture of political journalists and football supporters, so let me announce: what My Chemical Romance has done with their career is one of the great disappointments of my adult life