Nearly every weekday, dozens of tenants arrive at the Gee Street Courthouse in Clerkenwell to learn whether they will be able to keep their home.

I went along to a day of possession hearings, where landlords attempt to take back their properties.

Here’s what I found…

This morning's First Thing email — UN secretary general urges Middle East to step back from brink of full-scale war theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

EXCL: Three former supreme court justices, including the court’s former president Lady Hale, are among more than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“This is not a normal war. The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.” -Dr. Fozia Alvi theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The incredibly precise intel & targeting involved in Israel’s pinpoint air strike on the Iranian generals in Damascus is a stark reminder, as if any was needed, that everything it’s done in Gaza is equally deliberate and not some inevitable collateral damage of fighting Hamas.

npr.org/2024/03/29/124…

M.A. Columbia Journ alum Jem Bartholomew (MA Politics '20) will be teaching the City, University of London London-based, online short course 'Fact-Based Storytelling,' which begins on April 6. Learn more here: city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Excited to have Jem Bartholomew part of the City writing short course team! His #narrative #nonfiction course should be excellent. Sign up before 1 April city.ac.uk/prospective-st….

Reminder that I'm teaching an online longform writing course and you don't have long to enroll!✨ It will be a brilliant space to workshop that writing project you've had in the background for ages with a group of enthusiastic readers

Begins April 6: [city.ac.uk/prospective-st…]

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Reminder that I'm teaching an online longform writing course and you don't have long to enroll!✨ It will be a brilliant space to workshop that writing project you've had in the background for ages with a group of enthusiastic readers

Begins April 6: [city.ac.uk/prospective-st…]

Nearly fifth of UK in absolute poverty at height of cost of living crisis theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Famine – even in northern Gaza – could still be averted.

A humanitarian ceasefire is urgently needed.

Aid organizations must be allowed to reach civilians.

World Food Programme is stressing the need to act now to save lives. ow.ly/Yagx50QVtyH

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow south? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

Naomi Klein

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Reminder that I'm teaching an online longform writing course and you don't have long to enroll!✨

It will be a brilliant space to workshop that writing project you've had in the background for too long with a group of enthusiastic readers✨

Link: [city.ac.uk/prospective-st…]

Starvation being used as a weapon in Gaza, says EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell

“This humanitarian crisis … is not a natural disaster, is not a flood, is not an earthquake, it is 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚,” he said. “Starvation is being used as a war arm.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Aspiring journalists!
3 great opportunities at the The Guardian!

1) If you need financial help for a postgrad journalism course, u can apply to have the fees paid

Plus
2) if you have a disability,
or
3) if you're a person of colour,
you can apply for the Positive Action Scheme

Me and Clea Skopeliti reported on the legacy of the Conservative colliery closures of the 80s and 90s, as people in former mining towns express a sense of despair and the absence of hope in a better future

Painting, cutting, sticking, hammering, tidying, sweeping.

Thousands of little tasks add up to a major exhibition, writes Jem Bartholomew, but what about the director?

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