Just caught up with this - a good listen.
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Just caught up with this - a good listen.
March 10, 1969
One week to go to see if a new independent news outlet for Leeds and West Yorkshire will actually happen - if you'd like to see it and haven't yet pledged support for @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social, please consider doing so.
#LocalJournalismMatters
We're celebrating the women across journalism who continue to fight for fairness and challenge inequality.
#iwd
R.I.P. “Country” Joe McDonald 😔💔
(March 7, 2026)
'Barbara Keeley, a Labour peer, said the UK’s creative industries faced a “clear and present danger” from AI firms using their work without credit or payment.'
Footnote: the @writersguildgb.bsky.social is doing excellent work to fight this blatant theft of people's livelihoods. Join your union!
A plaque has been unveiled at the Town Hall commemorating the Sheffield Tree Campaign.
“In recognition of the courageous campaigners who saved thousands of street trees from wrongful felling by Sheffeld City Council, and as a reminder to all that such failures in leadership must never happen again”
“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
LIke reading that Jarndyce v Jarndyce has been settled out of court. Can it really be true?
This year, for #InternationalWomensDay, we honour women journalists who keep reporting despite threats, abuse and violence.
From frontlines to exile, capitals to small towns, they refuse to be silenced. Their voices defend media pluralism, democracy and truth.
💪 #IWD2026
Speaking at the #TUCWomens2026 'assaults at work' fringe event, Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary said:
“It’s clear that journalists are the target of shocking abuse and harassment both online and in person, and this restricts their ability to carry out their work."
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/abu...
Lords cttee to government
❌Do not weaken #copyright law
✅Strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement
❌Stop prioritising large multinational tech firms
✅State publicly that AI companies must license their training data (its the law) #CreatorsRights
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
LOP 76 (17 March 1978) headlined Women Have a Fair, report and photo from International Women's Day fair held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds.
Photo from the March page of the 1979 Leeds Other Paper calendar, captioned - March '78: Leeds women organise a Women's Fair at the Corn Exchange to celebrate International Women's Day.
LOP 75 (3 March 1978) includes a letter headlined Women's Fair that gives details of the International Women's Day fair to be held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds. Plus a letter about a summer playscheme, a news report about a picket of WH Smith over its refusal to stock Gay News, and an advert for Beano wholefoods.
As International Women's Day is almost upon us, here's some coverage of the 1978 version from Leeds Other Paper to get everyone in the mood.
#IWD #LeedsHistory
Take a book and read with deep concentration when wicked or blasphemous thoughts intrude themselves #WorldBookDay
Interesting piece on cycling in Leeds and Bradford from @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social - sign up soon if you'd like to see more local news in West Yorkshire.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group, when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly. “Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” “I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,” complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,” muttered a voice from the Russian literature section. “That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another. “C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World. After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance. “Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations. “Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone. He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over. After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines, their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston
In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.
I was there! At the match, that is, not in the bath.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays.
The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
NUJ statement on US-Israel attacks against Iran and the need to protect civilians, including journalists:
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/sta...
Launching a new newsroom is simple in theory:
If 500 people back it, we build it ⚒️
We’re working towards bringing independent journalism to West Yorkshire - and support like this from Robyn Vinter really means a lot.
We're still after your views on VAR in the English game.
Have your say: thefsa.org.uk/news/var-sur...
'London, Winter' (1928) by Christopher RW Nevinson
(London Museum)
And your supply, which you have wish’d so long,
Are cast away, and sunk on Goodwin Sands.
Have you registered yet for our next AJE event? Join us online on Friday (Feb 27) for our Winter Conference 2026 on 'Trust, truth and ethics in journalism education'. Find out more about this event and how to register for free in the link below ⬇️ #ajeuk #aje2026 ajeuk.org/call-for-abs...
“ citizenship to the land of knowledge” #Libraries
