Anne Booth (@Bridgeanne)

I keep the receipts.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Calling all families of Edinburgh! Get your tickets for an Escape Room event like no other! 10am! Tomorrow! @edbookfest.bsky.social Find the Keys! Unlock the World! #EscapeRoom #GameZero 🔑🌍🔐
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Good morning and many thanks to Blackwell Books

For showcasing us in their latest newsletter.

The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Beast @luluallison.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul @luluallison.bsky.social

@blackwelloxford.bsky.social
@blackwells.bsky.social

*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.

That’s truly heroic.

Afghan data breach super injunction 'deeply disturbing' for press freedom, says Lewis Goodall Podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has shared fears for the future of media over a court-imposed super injunction.

Spoke to @pressgazette about why the Afghan superinjunction case is a huge moment for press freedom, open justice and parliamentary democracy in the UK- and why it must never be allowed to happen in the same way again.

pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/af...

Congratulations! That looks lots of fun!

Cover of a children's book, white and green background colours. Foreground shows an illustrated child with long dark braids wearing a grey hoodie, black and white dotted leggings, with wings on her back. In the background is a tall, wobbly, tumbledown building. Title Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School appears above her head. Author's name Sinéad O'Hart appears beneath her feet, and beneath that again is the illustrator's name, Úna Woods.

Delighted to share the cover of my new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School! Art by @unawoods.bsky.social, pub Gill Books, Sept 4th. Ellora's just started at a new school, and it's hard to keep her budding banshee powers secret. But what if they're about to save the day? 📚🇮🇪💫

❤️

Why does life have to hurt so much? my no answer answer

open.substack.com/pub/thecorne... I love this writer.

Tell me what your pet would tell you if they had the chance?

It’s wonderful!

I am reading this and it is absolutely brilliant! It’s based in Malta and now I really want to go there. Thank you for writing such an amazing story @rowancoleman.bsky.social

Asylum-seekers get £49 a week loaded onto a pre-paid card if they're not in catered accommodation. They get £10 if they are. And yet nearly a third of voters think government spending helps 'immigrants' **most of all**. Insane and frightening.

On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”

I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

The Lib Dems have reported the BBC to Ofcom for giving "undue prominence" to Reform UK in its coverage of the UK-France deal yesterday

Stitched deep into the holler and hullabaloo of our festival fabric is our Worship & Spirituality programme, providing precious opportunities for quieter reflection and deeper understanding across the weekend.

Another #NewIllustrationOfTheDay today by Mia Underwood, from Live Like a Tudor, with a narrative by Claire Saunders. Graphic techniques applied to Tudor artworks create an effect of folk art without losing the decorative period details. From Button Books 8 July. @clairesaunders.bsky.social

YouTube video by Don't Screen Us Out BBC: Sally Phillips talks Peter Singer and Down's syndrome screening on Frank Skinner on Demand

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8cL...

Anne Reid on fame, desire and ambition at 90: ‘The most wonderful things have happened since I was 68!’ In her 20s, the actor says, casting directors didn’t rate her. In her 60s, she got her big break. She discusses fun, family, optimism, regrets – and wild sex on screen with Daniel Craig

Anne Reid on fame, desire and ambition at 90: ‘The most wonderful things have happened since I was 68!’

Marc Chagall, Artist and His Model

Marc Chagall, Artist and His Model
#art

Britain *is* broken.

Brexit broke Britain.

And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage.

This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism.

Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.

The BBC are constantly bending over backwards to please Reform.

I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Day 34 of showing you that certain animals (including spiders) aren't scary 😲 Today’s creature feature is Blossom the orchid mantis 🌸

She doesn’t breathe like we do! She uses spiracles (tiny holes along her sides) to pull in air. How cool is that?! 😁 #facts #prayingmantis

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

That spluttering noise you can hear is the sound of thousands of British writers spitting out the tea they've just made themselves as a reward for negotiating a £150 speaking fee at a UK literary festival.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Sam Usher from Super Me, with text by Charissa Coulthard in which a boy searching for superheroes finds the hero in himself. Usher’s lively pen conjures the scene and a happy mood with his characteristic warmth, observation and brio. @simonandschuster.bsky.social 3 July