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By @CWIPrize via @newsfromnowhere Previous winners comedywomeninprint.co.uk/previous-winne… of Comedy Women in Print. Would love to see some satirical pieces set in #localgov / local politics, or local public services. The fun writers could have with that. (One for Local Democracy Reporters?) 1/2

"Years before his prolific career as a novelist, Charles Dickens worked as a court reporter. After studying Gurney shorthand, he became a freelance reporter at Doctor Commons courts in London in 1829." depo.com/crtonovelist.h… ***Lots*** of material to work with in public meetings

Also see @BNArchive, & filter to find transcripts of court cases & #localgov meetings which today read as drama scripts. ***Because heckles were included in the quotations***.

""the government had not only spent upwards of ten millions, but had been compelled to levy additional taxes.

(Cries of: “Yes, to compensate Sir Alexander Grant and the slave-owners!”, and considerable uproar)." lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/cam…