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@BritishAcademy_ All academics should read this excellent British Academy letter and summary of the issues with #OA for academic books #REF29

Gaza is “a post-apocalyptic environment,” with “people just waiting to be killed, either by airstrike, by disease, or even by hunger,” says UNRWA chief Philippe @UNLazzarini. On the consequences of the Knesset vote to stop UNRWA’s operations, he warns “that means that the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza will collapse.” Watch my full conversation with UNRWA’s commissioner general about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, Israel’s move to shut down the organization, allegations of links to Hamas, and more.

To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter, send a message of hope and solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join bookshops across the UK taking part in the campaign. ✉️ Follow the link below to send a message ⤵️ englishpen.org/pen-writes/

@GuardianBooks What a brilliant choice!

Samantha Harvey’s ‘beautiful and ambitious’ Orbital wins Booker prize theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

Berkeley Becomes The First US City To Ban Factory Farming “Berkeley citizens have voted in favour of banning factory farming” Absolutely wonderful news #AnimalsMatter #EndFactoryFarming #Forever plantbasednews.org/culture/law-an… via @PlantBasedNews

Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

@GuardianBooks had to happen …

The new folk horror: nature is coming to kill you! theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

Tom Gauld on the narrator – cartoon theguardian.com/books/picture/…

Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Having a stammer was instrumental in making me a writer’ theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

@GuardianBooks yeah, no ta.

Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

@GuardianBooks It’s an appalling reality. I was checking demographics for Norfolk last week and the county has appallingly low writing levels for children (and low educational achievement generally) - why? We have the National Writing Centre here - is there a series of possible solutions?

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

Headline writers not messing about

@KatyaTaylor @aliciabwfoster No choice, sadly, Brexit has left UK so exposed. At least it’s a perfunctory congratulatory letter

So thankful that we in UK do not have the tory party in power.

“That Shattered is a book Hanif Kureishi could not have written without this calamity befalling him must be of scant comfort, yet these dispatches from its front line are extraordinary.” @chris_power #Echobox=1730824566" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

“..critical for non-GM supply chains incl. organic, that govt legislate co-existence. Untraceable new GMOs in food/farming threatens ability to fulfil legal duty to maintain separate supply chains. Govt agencies have duty of care to safeguard food systems integrity across the UK”

This is a dark, dark day for people around the globe. The world’s largest economy and most powerful military will be led by a dangerous, destructive demagogue.

@susie_dent Spot on Susie!

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.