This is a most remarkable collection of essays on writing and working.

Can the Guardian stop hyperlinking every other phrase? It's making it impossible to read their articles.

That businessman who’s suing us for £250,000 didn’t turn up to court Two Italian doctor’s notes and ‘unsatisfactory’ conduct from Claudio Di Giovanni

Update on our libel case 🚨 - the businessman suing us didn’t turn up to the high court for the first hearing. Judge was unimpressed with his medical evidence.

Fighting these threats to journalism in the UK is frustrating and expensive but we will win.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/that-busines...

🚨 It looks like we might be hiring very soon. If you’re a journalist in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield or Halifax - or you grew up there and want to move back - please contact @djstimms.bsky.social with haste. As soon as we hit 500 we can hire.

Leeds' new local paper West Yorkshire deserves great local journalism. Help us launch it.

One week to go to see if a new independent news outlet for Leeds and West Yorkshire will actually happen - if you'd like to see it and haven't yet pledged support for @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social, please consider doing so.
#LocalJournalismMatters

‘Train Dreams’ Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella has been lauded by critics, screened at…

The movie adaptation of 'Train Dreams' is something palatable, a safe choice between seasons of 'Yellowstone.' defector.com/train-dreams...

Gift of Thomas Arndt

The Son of God, Pilsen, Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159919/

anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

Shop front with large novelty mouse and cheese sculpture on roof of Atomic Pest Control

Atomic Pest Control, Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis (2009)

Photo: William Bearden / Memphis Public Libraries

Quilt with stylised simple figures and significant symbols

Harriet Powers (1839 -1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist, quilt maker from Georgia who used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts #WomensArt #BlackHistoryMonth

One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.

"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

A truly bizarre piece

yes, as mentioned i know why news is printed in this way. but *all* articles on the bbc website are written in this way - no matter if features or op columns

Aside from the content of this, I will never understand the BBC's insistence on one sentence paras in non-breaking news articles. Do they think their readers are near illiterate?

silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

Stunning diva

How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down For Gaza Hundreds of thousands blocked ports and roadways to demand an end to military collaboration with Israel.

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

Exclusive: Corsica Studios is closing next year Plus, Thames Waters’ wasted £500mn, arson attack on an asylum hotel and the return of one of Bermondsey’s best boozers, all in your Monday briefing

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iconic south London club Corsica Studios is set to close next year.

Read: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-co...

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

Steam, stodge – and so much suet: I made 10 endangered British puddings. Are any actually worth saving? With many classic puddings on the verge of dying out, I set out to discover which should be back on the menu. It was a journey through some of the heaviest desserts in history

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se... Would it not have been a better idea to get somebody who can actually cook to write this... the bread and butter is completely burnt...

I wrote about going to the Crossbones Graveyard vigil last month (non-paywalled): www.the-londoner.co.uk/honouring-lo...

Luella Bartley was kinda the Simone Rocha of the early 2000s...

Why is a Sky News Australia YouTube video promoting Douglas Kirk conspiracy theories showing up in Google news on London...

Honestly, just quite a disturbing day - hard not to come away thinking that the online space getting several degrees more mad in recent years played a big role

The day the right took London A special dispatch from this weekend's Unite the Kingdom rally

After a chaotic Saturday of dodging bottles and interviewing all involved, my dispatch from the front lines of the 'unite the kingdom' is now up - for @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-day-the-...

👑Javier Bardem at the Emmy's yesterday. Discussing the Film Workers' for Palestine pledge: "I won't work" with any company that is in business with Israel: "I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide."
Can't stop the tide! #BDS #FreePalestine
Video: Variety