Lisa O'Kelly

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Ok so inevitably (it’s been an emotional and tiring week) some extra shout outs are needed…! @ClareMBrennan @KermodeMovie @simoneliadraws and David Foldvari… mini🧵

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...When coverage of the arts is in decline, not least @BBCNews it's heartening that the Observer, which has had issues of its own, continues to support this award.

@StephenSmithWDS Congratulations 🥳

I'm surprised & delighted to be longlisted for the Anthony Burgess Prize for criticism, named after the indefatigable reviewer (and novelist!) himself...... 📷anthonyburgess.orgLonglist 2025 - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Today Guardian & Observer journalists are on strike for 48 hours over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall.🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!

Why are we striking? GMG says the sale is “necessary”. But the Observer is a successful part of the Guardian family The deal has been rushed through in secret, without considering other bids Our owners have a £1.3bn fund & a duty to protect liberal journalism - why not invest?

We'll be posting here all day and will be on the picket line at Guardian HQ - 90 York Way, London N1 Please follow & share our posts, & join us if you can. We hope some of the famous names supporting us (below) might come too 🙏 More info: nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver Solidarity 💪

@paulfwebster Bravo!

Here's why I think the proposed sale of the Observer to Tortoise would severely damage the reputation of the Scott Trust and threaten the future of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, which I edited until last weekend 🧵

Guardian bosses are trying to quell a staff rebellion over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making startup. But furious journalists say this is the “last straw” and are now scrutinising governance as they prepare to vote for a strike Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

The #Observer is home to the best writing and arts coverage and bravest opinion columns of any UK newspaper. And where I first met Snoopy. If you want it to survive, and for the Scott Trust to do its job, join the campaign ⁦@ObserverReaders⁩ thebookseller.com/news/authors-i…

SCOOP from @j_a_warrington. A new bidder for @ObserverUK has emerged! But they’re not allowed to bid because of an exclusivity arrangement with the CEO’s chum. And they couldn’t have done so before it was exclusive because whole thing was secret then.

PLEASE REPOST TO HELP SAVE THE OBSERVER! @ObserverReaders Authors, illustrators and agents back readers’ campaign to ‘Save the Observer’ thebookseller.com/news/authors-i…