RIP Terry Hall: what a legend.

The Specials produced so many iconic songs, including "Ghost Town" which you could say describes Britain in 2022 as much as it described Britain in 1981. Working class young people are still being let down by a Tory Govt that doesn't really care about bringing in policies that would make their lives better, like access to high quality careers education and higher level apprenticeships.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/19/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63

#TerryHall

Seventy hours of interviews behind Nelson Mandela’s epic memoir The Long Walk To Freedom are out now as the podcast Mandela: The Lost Tapes.

I could not have wished for a funnier, more humble, or warmer chat on which to end the year, than Rick Stengel - the ‘ghost’ writer who spent a year interviewing Mandela (and then was editor of TIME and then under-secretary for Obama).

I hope you’ll be as uplifted by this faith-restoring encounter as I was.

Listen. Share.

http://kite.link/BK1216Mandela

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news