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AND NOW…tinnies on the moor 🏃🏻🥂 Newcastle United are CHAMPIONS in my lifetime

It’s real. Newcastle United you did it. For the Toon, for the NE, for Geordies everywhere! Congratulations don’t even cut it! We’ve waited so long and hope and belief has finally been rewarded 🏆 If only, IF ONLY we had the power to declare a Geordie Bank Holiday tomorrow! #HWTL 🖤🤍😭

Amol Rajan, "Britain today is stuck, isn't it?" Alan Sugar, "It's stagnant" Amol Rajan, "Declining?" Alan Sugar, "It's got a lot to do with Brexit" "Brexit is the biggest disaster I have experienced in my whole lifetime, business career" "Brexit was a total absolute

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/the…

'An extraordinarily accomplished and tender poet, Ravinthiran’s new work is much anticipated.' - Will Mackie, New Writing North, on #VidyanRavinthiran's third collection #Avidya, which is out from Bloodaxe Books in April. #WorldPoetryDay newwritingnorth.com/journal/new-an…

#HarlandMiller XXX York Art Gallery is a TRIUMPH.

Why lead with this image? Representations of class like this are why people have no hope or belief in themselves. I know it was the middle class photo editor but come on. Over it. 🙄

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Tyneside’s print traditions are deep-seated - indeed, in 18th century England only London, Oxford and Cambridge published more books than Newcastle - and this pub in Gosforth is another key site in that illustrious history.

The false promises unravelling within 24 hours.

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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a class problem.

So very, very proud. Here it is folks! 🐝🐝🔥🔥

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So proud of our #WritingChance class of 25 - this is how you do talent development 💪🏻 New Writing North michael sheen 💙 Northumbria Uni The Mirror

I have a new podcast The Working Class Library... 📚📚📚📚open.spotify.com/show/7lu7Hznio…

What do Britons say is the most distinctive thing about their region? For Londoners, the capital's diversity comes top (27%) For North Easterners the friendliness of its people stands out most (20%) And the East of England is... flat (15%) 👇 See map below for more

Fulfillment, the second novel by American working-class author Lee Cole, gives an honest account of working in a low-prospects distribution warehouse, and of the way that work affects your life. The account could only have been written by someone who has done that job.🧵

Nigel Farage telling us that if Reform get elected to run the Senedd, he’d like to re-open the pits. It’s bizarre for those of us old enough to remember 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn said he’d like to look at the same thing, and was universally laughed at by journalists + other MPs.