Yesterday's highlight from #NLWC2024 Waterside CIT Northern Lights Writers Conference was Monica MacSwan & Bluemoose Books Ric Michael ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦 #write rs #write rs community #followtherules #write #wrong

Just heard a mother on Henry Street: 'Well, you wouldn't be much use in the Easter Rising, crying over a balloon.'

Anyone remember the Irish drink drive campaign from the 70's...'Stay away from that fifth or sixth pint'. 😃
Those were the days!

Happy birthday to Lin Webb Lin Webb

One of the finest editors in the land!

There’s only one Jimmy Grimble!!

I work for the civil service, we're all underpaid, we all have some extremely important aspect of society in our control, every department is one nervous breakdown from going under and life would be dystopia without us, you fuckers have no idea.

Everything about this video is perfect. The awkward anticlimactic ending. The cringe music. The completely bewildered look as she doesn’t know where to go or whether to keep saying thank you. And then, the camera zooming out to emptiness.

UK train travel at its finest…

this is art

'A small bookshop is a place to meet like minds and swap literary recommendations...Their resilience and renaissance should be applauded.'

thetimes.co.uk/article/e42714…

#ChooseBookshops

With all the horrible shite going on in the world. It’s important to remember, City won the treble and Man Utd are shit! 🥳

Very good thread

This is what’s wrong with Uk Labour. A socialist wanted to stand. But only the Party functionaries and Centrists get to stand.

Most people across Calder Valley know who Rosemary is, whether its from organising new candidates for councillor roles, managing training and interviews or through her tireless NHS campaigning. Rosemary is a doer & knows that winning this seat means inspiring the grass roots ✊🏼🌹

Delighted to meet Brendan B. Brown from wheatus. He calls for Northern Ireland Assembly to implement the United Nations's UNCRPD into local law.

Thank you Brendan for your support from deaf and disabled people.

social.desa.un.org/issues/disabil…

#MyWayAccess #UNCRPD #Wheatus #Disabled #DisabilityTwitter

Oh my giddy aunt!

We've just sold the rights of

Ghost Mountain & Panenka by Mumblin' Deaf Ro

To Karl Blessing Verlag, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in Germany.

Many thanks to Deborah Druba our wonderful agent in Paris.

The Bookseller
Irish Times Culture
Waterstones

In the absence of any adults in the room, so glad to see Israeli and Palestinian mothers make this important stand. Great to see diplomats and politicians join them.

Bella Ciao 🚩

A picture to sum up the Tory party conference. Suella Braverman standing on a blind man's guide dog.