Louise Corcoran

Got to read this early for work-related purposes, what a treat!

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

Part of my advocacy for not surrendering is sustaining, which involves taking breaks, pleasure, and beauty. See you in the streets (and these ancients producing brand new acorns and leaves on the trails).

We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

Good things: signs of spring.

The brilliant AOC upsets a lot of men a lot, and since they have no idea that that's what's going on they subject us to their inanities, and now I am going to close replies so I don't have to hear a bunch of junk.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Sounds grouchy but USE your local indy. We have authors email with a new book who say they are local but we’ve never seen them before. Where do they buy their books? Indies form valuable connections & support newbies, make friends & go the extra mile to sell stuff if there is already a relationship.

As any woman in the back of a locked taxi knows, Sam Kerr should never have been brought to court | Suzanne Wrack The Matildas and Chelsea forward won’t be proud of the footage of her in a police station. But her acquittal underlines that the charges and court battle that followed were a waste of time and money

As any woman in the back of a locked taxi knows, Sam Kerr should never have been brought to court | Suzanne Wrack www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we will be publishing LIKE A LOVE STORY by Abdi Nazemian in the UK this June! 💖

Cover illustration by Dave Homers
Cover design by Charlie Moyler

Out June 2025!

Discover more: bit.ly/41gcpon

#LikeALoveStory #AbdiNazemian

THIS

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention.

No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hundreds of tractors block Westminster Farmers from across the UK protesting in London against changes to inheritance tax.

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much.
The real #TwoTierPolicing
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UCLan's Centre of Publishing Excellence launches two new agencies and workshop UCLan Publishing has launched two new agencies and a workshop, during the development of its Centre of Publishing Excellence.

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I wasn’t surprised when I saw who the publisher was. Awful.

Currently working my way through Shōgun. Finding it very slow so far. Someone tell me it picks up?

Trump booed at the #Superbowl

Share and celebrate!

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

A year today since I was nuked by Elon Musk for writing a column which correctly stated he benefits from racism and spam. The real mindfuck is this was deemed so shocking that questions about my ban were put to Twitter execs by the Irish parliament (lol). 12mths later, that seems hilariously quaint.

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew.

A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release!

#Booksky

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

"Resist, Obstruct, Protect Our People": Maxwell Frost Has a Plan for Taking on Trump "Why is a single Democrat voting to confirm any of these Trump Cabinet nominees?"

We might have a few less seats in Congress but we’re not going to be the minority. We’re going to be the opposition.

Thanks @leximcmenamin.bsky.social & @teenvogue.com for covering.

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Yay, congratulations!

Picked this up at The Little Ripon Bookshop on my travels earlier. Holiday reading acquisition coming along nicely.

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Today, brought to you in large part by market towns of Yorkshire. #itsgrimupnorth

Assuming 1st trad and 2nd POD? As I’d usually guess the other way round. There are some interesting cover choices out there