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GIVEAWAY! Next month we’ll be announcing the 2021 #YoungWritersAward shortlist. In the meantime, we’re giving away a set of some of the previous winners of the UK’s most influential prize for young writers. To enter, simply Like & RT this post (UK & IE only). Ends 23 Dec.

Thought-provoking finale to #TheProsWinterSeries with Sathnam Sanghera — 100% agree Portugal is yet to fully come to terms with its colonial past. Kudos to @BMEPRPros for organising and thanks again to @ManifestLDN for the ticket!

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The New Beacon Bookshop Crowfunding Campaign is now live! Please share and donate to save this incredible institution! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-new-bea…

How did your neighbourhood do during the pandemic? We've published a whizzy tool which will let you look up how your local high street has done during the pandemic. ft.com/content/9348c6…

A happy coincidence that today is World Book Day! Thanks to Smithsonian’s NMAAHC and Harriett’s Bookshop for speaking to me: ft.com/content/c23663…

A pleasure to talk to Adjoa Andoh about her year University of Oxford, ‘the power of story’ and Bridgerton’s legacy for FT Weekend ft.com/content/63f7e1…

Great to talk to Isabel Wilkerson about America’s past, present and future and her “narrative drive” ahead of OxfordLitFest via FT Weekend ft.com/content/6cd964…

Thank you! It’s a great novel

ICYMI: I spoke to Linton Kwesi Johnson Picador Books about poetry, politics and Britain’s place in the world for FT Weekend ft.com/content/d3d4f9…

“If you don’t understand where you’re coming from, you will never understand where you’re going.” As the main day of Notting Hill Carnival gets underway, my latest for Financial Times looks at the genesis and future of Europe’s largest street event ft.com/content/b5e8cb…

“Fiction has to touch on your bruises” I profiled Teju Cole ahead of the release of his brilliant new novel, Tremor, for FT Weekend. Faber Books/Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 ft.com/content/425213…

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, 1958-2023 via Financial Times ft.com/content/ec7ad7…

50 years ago yesterday..Enjoyed reading Alex Fernandes Maria Inácia Rezola and Helion & Company Ltd on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution for The TLS

Infected blood inquiry finds ‘chilling’ cover-up of decades-long scandal. “Standing back and reviewing the response of the NHS and government, the answer to the question ‘was there a cover-up?’ is that there has been”. on.ft.com/4bBB5uW

“Langstaff found ‘systemic, collective and individual failures’…led to a ‘calamity’ that has so far claimed over 3,000 lives” UK infected blood inquiry: key findings, with Laura Hughes ft.com/content/e557c9…

‘Portugal’s general election in March saw an alliance of right-wing parties form a minority government after nine years of Socialist rule. But the far-right Chega more than quadrupled its presence in parliament.’ Franklin Nelson reports from the Algarve: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Tennis clubs grapple with surge in demand for padel and pickleball on.ft.com/3L6b63r

James Earl Jones, actor, 1931-2024 via Financial Times ft.com/content/f03944…