2. The Birth Certificate is Missing... So it's newspapers next

rachelsabihajohnson.substack.com/p/2-the-birt...

Something something about the trend for "self-publishing" v writing for newspapers - link in reply

I must read this....thank you. Should we value good art by bad people or bad art by good people?Discuss.

1. The Birth Certificate An intro to The Rachel Johnson Papers

Here's link to first note, anyway
rachelsabihajohnson.substack.com/p/1-the-birt...

Late to the party, but I've launched on the site that cannot be named...I'll post a link below if anyone like me clings on to analogue papers of record in an increasingly digital and soulless age...

The bath | Ep 1 Podcast Episode · Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman · 08/07/2024 · 56m

Neil Gaiman: link to the first episode of Master, the six-part podcast series from me and Paul Caruana Galizia that broke the story in July

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This painstaking long read from Lila Shapiro of @NYMag stands up everything @pcaruanagalizia and I reported in our podcast series Master:the allegations against Neil Gaiman for @tortoise - and details of alleged child abuse, sexual assault and rape that we were legally unable to publish in the UK

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A mother’s work She did her best art in hospitals, away from the screaming demands of family life. Yet she’d always return to that family—to me and my brothers

Longer version of how Charlotte Johnson Wahl painted her own biography in @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6872...

Rachel Johnson: how my mother turned her breakdowns into art As the paintings of Charlotte Johnson Wahl, made during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, go on show, her daughter explains how creativity and mental anguish were threaded through her life

How my mother turned her breakdowns into art

www.thetimes.com/article/fdb1...

Er, I wasn’t running the country. And it’s “dying” I think. I never have these silly fights on Twitter!

I thought Bluesky was the safe space for sissies? Interesting that my first post is met with supercilious disdain! Noted. Thank you whoever you are.

Soooo, hullo clouds hullo Bluesky!