Ruth Spencer

You may have seen the recent fury over @Motability: how ‘sickfluencers’ are helping ‘bedwetting boy racers’ get ‘50-grand Mercs’ for free. This is basically a myth, and its laundering into the mainstream is an object lesson in How Things Work Now. Thread follows.

@StokeyUpdates @kate_revere Oh no!!! So sad to hear this. What a loss for Church Street.

Revere the Residence (@kate_revere) in 150-2 Church St will close on 24th Dec, with the shop up for let from Jan. The social enterprise will continue from a local studio, offering workshops and stocking products locally, online, and at pop-ups and markets across Hackney.

@SophieElmhirst @gdnlongread 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

I wrote about condoms! For @gdnlongread. Why they are the way they are, the ick, the greased wafer (Amis), the inglorious wrangle of getting them on, and how Durex is trying very hard to make you love them. theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

@StokeyUpdates @mayorofhackney @jonburkeUK any updates on this?

@mayorofhackney Good morning. Has there been any update on the Stoke Newington gyratory please? I seem to recall work to remove it to create a southbound bus and cycle lane were due to start this year at some point. Thank you.

Wrote a piece about the misreading of where the political middle is that left Gary Lineker with a great big opening to become the martyr of the moment, somehow. And also about the BBC being crap about it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@UnhappyFem Yes!!!!!!!

RIP Eater London - a groundbreaking outlet for food journalism that launched lots of great writers and made everyone else think harder about their work, even the many people it wound up london.eater.com/2023/2/14/2359…

A shock and a scandal. One of the only publications in London that actually made the city a better place to live.

Ok, you should subscribe and read everyday blah blah but I especially recommend today’s First Edition. In which @archiebland really commits to all the things that should die a death with 2022. Contains big ‘revenge of the whatsapp group chat’ energy theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…

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Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, blew up the Democratic Party’s plan to fight climate change. Here’s a look at how the plan unraveled as the Earth continues to warm. nyti.ms/3IFgTLe

Today is wretched and plain. And it is not the bottom. It will get worse; we will go lower. As the Court’s dissent insists, correctly, “Closing our eyes to the suffering today’s decision will impose will not make that suffering disappear.” thecut.com/2022/06/rebecc…

"The point of the leak, then, may have been to lock in the five-justice conservative majority." By @adamliptak, who doesn't say things lightly nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/…

Today's First Edition is about the breaking news of a leak which appears to show the US Supreme Court is on the brink of overturning Roe v Wade. Sign up here to get it in your inbox at 7am each day. theguardian.com/global/ng-inte… theguardian.com/world/2022/may…

Exclusive investigation by me and @aamnamohdin and the BBC >> DJ Tim Westwood accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women theguardian.com/media/2022/apr…

If there is a solution to the subway’s woes that pretty much everyone agrees on, it’s this: The more people start taking the train, the less crime there will be. @reeveswiedeman writes after riding every line in the days after the Brooklyn subway shooting bit.ly/3LbNdpA

Lush, floral insights will grow in the arid desert of your inbox if you sign up for First Edition, our free daily newsletter. Starts on Monday, comes every weekday at 7am, makes sense of the world in the time it takes to drink a coffee, no refunds. Cheers theguardian.com/first-edition-…

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The evidence it presents in that regard is so extensive you would expect it to have provoked widespread soul-searching and contrition. The fact it hasn’t is pretty revealing and rather proves the need for its existence in the first place.