In this issue (1/2): Francesca Reece Carolyn M. Grace Sabine Wilson-Patrick Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Louise Denham Avery Rabbitt @averyrabbitt.bsky.social Lydia Pang Louise Hagger
Chitra Ramaswamy
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Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b
Misan Harriman Handraiser | Good Law Project
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.
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And it's up on @bbciplayer.bsky.social! Will be activating my nostalgia for the mindless sex and drugs fest that was the 1990s TONIGHT! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Booze, drugs and Egg in the buff! How This Life sexed up the world of TV
Thirty years since the cult show about sweary lawyers swaggered on to our screens in a fug of cigarette smoke, creator Amy Jenkins talks F-bombs, fellatio … and giving Ricky Gervais his big break
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My @thetimes.com restaurant review of 1610 at the Globe Inn, Dumfries. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
1610 at the Globe Inn restaurant review — a historically good meal
Exceptional Scottish produce cooked by virtuoso chefs in a setting steeped in history — my only regret is that I couldn’t stay longer
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““Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. At a certain point you have to ask what kind of city we are choosing to become” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse?
The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing
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Great piece about the reprehensible and avoidable hollowing out of Glasgow’s once thriving arts scene
Libby Brooks@libbybrooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago““Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. At a certain point you have to ask what kind of city we are choosing to become” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I love this so much! And thoroughly concur! A magnificent restaurant. Already feels like such a titan of the Edinburgh dining scene, I love it so.
Chris Creegan@chriscreegan.bsky.social · 5mo agoLatest from me: celebrating the joy of The Palmerston, my local restaurant in Edinburgh after my 100th visit. With a nod to @chitgrrl.bsky.social and @jayrayner1.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/chriscre...
Migration is part of what makes this country great. We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours. The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
Nearly 500 immediate job losses and legions of Brewdog’s early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed. Totally punk www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BrewDog bought by US cannabis and drinks firm for £33m, costing nearly 500 jobs
Many early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed as Tilray acquires beer company’s UK and Irish assets
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This book is a beacon. Beautiful writing and thinking from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the height of her powers. I'm reviewing it for @writersmosaic.bsky.social and it's a stunner.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
Sharing the second of our Gray Day animation commissions ✨ Oliver Pearse, one of five artists selected by The Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, reimagines Chapter Six of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) for the Alan Cumming audiobook—first screened at Gray Day 2026 at Òran Mór.
Lanark Book Three Chapter Six - Oliver Pearse
YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive
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Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
Everything seems awful and chaotic and powerless, so I am left to do what I can only do: share some beauty with the world. I have no wise words or platitudes, but I do have a camera and empathy. A shot from my first global geomagnetic storm (2024) 💛 #iceland #northernlights #aurora #peace
When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.
Our latest Film Tracing Light at Kings Place; Kings Cross. I'll be there for a Q&A with Dr James Fox and Julie Brook. London friends, do come. Thursday 19th March. www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
Tracing Light Film Screening • Words • Kings Place
Award-winning director Thomas Riedelsheimer works with light. It is his medium. Mysterious and beguiling. In this film, in remote island settings and hi-tech laboratories, he brings together art and s...
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Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.