RT @AlixHattenstone: With record school holiday fines issued in England in 2022-2023, figures due out later will tell us if the upward tren…

UPDATE: NUJ achieves concessions for Guardian & Observer journalists The union has been engaged in negotiations with the Guardian Media Group making significant progress over necessary mitigations for journalists @NUJofficial

👀 Observer newspaper deal attacts government scrutiny (£) "Officials have sent letters to the Guardian and Tortoise requesting information about the proposed buyout of The Observer, to help judge whether the deal needs further scrutiny" @FT

RT @NUJmags: MPs object to Observer transfer. At the time of writing 18 MPs had signed. Please check whether your MP is among them; congrat…

PS: Happiest of birthdays to Billy Bragg, who came to our strike, sang timeless songs, and raised our hearts @billybragg

RT @pressgazette: NEW: The Tortoise-Observer deal has been formally signed, with Lucy Rock named print editor and a voluntary redundancy sc…

RT @arusbridger: So Tortoise now owns the Observer. For the sake of all involved let’s hope it works. If James Harding’s figures are to be…

From @thetimes (£) "Tortoise is a thinly capitalised vanity project in search of a commercial model. Buying The Observer will give it a reason to tap backers for millions more... The Guardian is paying too much for a stake that isn’t big enough..."

Hello! Thanks again to everyone who supported our strikes over the last two weeks. It's meant a lot to us all. Stewart Lee was amongst us, as reported by @chortle

@Nicola_Slawson Thank you Nicola 🙏 Hope all is going well with the new kiddo 👶🏼🧡