We're deep into post-freelancer research post-working groups post-reports, at the start of a cost of living crisis and an energy bills crisis and freelancer fees have still not improved. It's time to look at some MATHS. Salaried producers and project managers, this one's for you. Before everyone starts shouting about not having budgets: I KNOW. But I also know: One) Pay more, work slower, work better. Two) If you are offering certain rates then at the *very least* you should know what you are actually offering, and how it compares with your salary.

Sarah Everard was murdered in police custody by a serving Met officer. Suggestions by officers in the last 48hrs for women to check ID are as pointless as they are insulting & dangerous. This is a systemic abuse of power from people who feel untouchable. Rage is justified. Look: One

https://twitter.com/leahfhardy/status/1443551491801993219

My great aunt Sally died on Tuesday night of Covid, 8 days after testing positive in her care home. She wanted to be a poet. She wasn’t really educated, she never had a tutor, an editor or a publisher. But she self-published a pamphlet. I’d love you to read my favourites. She wrote about life, and the camps, and sleep, but these are the ones I love: a quirkier inner life than she ever let on. We lit last night’s candles for her.

Ok. I’ve written about this before but after the intervention yesterday of the chief Rabbi, and a few weeks ago of my great aunt’s Rabbi, I feel compelled to write again. Antisemitism and the Labour Party. A (long) thread. First of all my Jewish credentials. (We’ll come back to this). Both my parents are Jewish. On my mother’s side we are German Jews who left Germany early in the 20th Century. Pre-Holocaust but because of the rise of antisemitism in Europe & Germany.