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Formerly senior editor at Mill Media (the company behind the Manchester Mill, the Sheffield Tribune, the Liverpool Post and more). Writing on culture, cities and tech; translating German texts into English. Say hello: [email protected]
The long read: Indeterminate sentences are devastating to mental health, but prisoners with mental illness are less likely to be released. The result is a vicious cycle whereby the most vulnerable inmates often have the least chance of getting out - as John's case shows
I get sick a lot in the winter, so I spent this past January as I've spent many Januaries before it - in bed with a standard-issue flu. As the fever built, my mind hopscotched from one anxiety to the next.
Zoom, Houseparty and Skype have become integral to life in the age of covid-19. Of course, it's easy to become frustrated - video calls are hardly a convincing substitute for spending time together in person.
Have you considered dating the place first? The United States is "one of the most mobile countries in the world," according to a 2013 Gallup survey in which nearly 1 in 4 adults reported that they had moved within a five-year window.
The community was built on utopian principles and has a long waiting list. But it doesn't welcome prying eyes.
Across Europe, worker-led delivery collectives are springing up to reclaim control from corporate platforms
If you consumeJean Rhys's first four novels one after another, the books begin to bleed into each other. You may try to be logical, making a note of names and ages.
Aged sixteen, I read Gwendoline Riley's Cold Water for the first time, inhaling it over the course of two days, and then read Sick Notes and then Cold Water again. Her first two novels detailed a world I knew well as a teenager: afternoons in Manchester's Central Library; nights at the Star and Garter; short-lived flings.
Any number of elements are conspiring to reissue Eve Babitz's 1979 novel, Sex and Rage, as a beach read. There was that July drop, the yolky gold of the cover. Even the package it came in had a note from the publishers billing it as a "Hot summer read!"
