Jenny Fraser
@jennyfraser.bsky.social
writer • journalist • author
💻 https://www.jennyfraser.co.uk/
✍️ https://findthedetails.substack.com/
🗞️ Features Journalist, My Weekly
📚 https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jenny-fraser
💻 https://www.jennyfraser.co.uk/
✍️ https://findthedetails.substack.com/
🗞️ Features Journalist, My Weekly
📚 https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jenny-fraser
Craft, design, antiques and shopping destinations this May - read on, here:
Coming up in May
Craft, antiques and design take over London - plus two new interiors destinations
open.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Craft, design, antiques and shopping destinations this May - read on, here:
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Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
www.change.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
Today I’m joining my union @societyofauthors.bsky.social on a day of peaceful protest - creators deserve to be compensated for their art - our livelihoods are at stake now and in the future
#bookthieves #meta
#bookthieves #meta
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today I’m joining my union @societyofauthors.bsky.social on a day of peaceful protest - creators deserve to be compensated for their art - our livelihoods are at stake now and in the future
#bookthieves #meta
#bookthieves #meta
Art to view and create, plus a final call for bargains at a design-led pop-up, here:
What's new for March
Art to admire, create and buy - plus the last chance to grab designer bargains
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Art to view and create, plus a final call for bargains at a design-led pop-up, here:
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Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
www.londoncentric.media
March 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
It’s a week for collaboration (in the interiors world, at least) - click for details:
Mix and match: British icons unite
From beanbags to vinyl albums, wallpaper to sofas, this week's best launches are UK collabs
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s a week for collaboration (in the interiors world, at least) - click for details:
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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
February 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
The latest design launches for February, here: tinyurl.com/designfeb
February 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The latest design launches for February, here: tinyurl.com/designfeb
Congratulations all - so many fascinating reads on this list
The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!
February 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Congratulations all - so many fascinating reads on this list
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The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply.
Please share :)
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...
Please share :)
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...
February 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply.
Please share :)
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...
Please share :)
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...
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Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
🇨🇦💪🏼🇨🇦💪🏼 brilliant - great interview @faisalislam.bsky.social
"We're going to stand up to a bully" | Mark Carney on President Trump’s Canada trade tariffs
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🇨🇦💪🏼🇨🇦💪🏼 brilliant - great interview @faisalislam.bsky.social
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"For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemocratic Chinese, or being data-jacked and screwed over by the post-democratic tech bros. Once again, it’s the old syphilis or Ebola menu choice."
Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde
If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemocratic Chinese, or being data-jacked and screwed over by the post-democratic tech bros. Once again, it’s the old syphilis or Ebola menu choice."
new year, new - brown? Colour of the Year, and the latest and best design finds, here:
Spring 2025: what's new
For this year's colour, the latest kitchen designs, a luxurious stone and tile showroom, and January's best source of unique interior details, read on:
open.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
new year, new - brown? Colour of the Year, and the latest and best design finds, here:
The best (imo) reads, subscriptions and buys for everyone this winter:
Get the gifts in: best shopping recs and reads
From teen-approved apparel to worth-the-investment subscriptions, here's what I'll be sourcing this December
findthedetails.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The best (imo) reads, subscriptions and buys for everyone this winter:
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Wishing all my friends in Scotland and those celebrating around the world a very happy St Andrew’s Day 🏴
November 30, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Wishing all my friends in Scotland and those celebrating around the world a very happy St Andrew’s Day 🏴
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More like The Gone-Away World… It’s fascinating to me: so much of what people get hung up on in my writing as “weird” is just how the real world works. We are *remarkably* unable to accept what’s in front of us.
Training bees to recognize your enemies and swarm them sounds like a side plot in @harkaway.bsky.social’s Angelmaker.
cals.ncsu.edu/news/can-bee...
cals.ncsu.edu/news/can-bee...
Can Bees Recognize Faces?
Yep, bees can recognize faces. But do they use this ability? David Tarpy explains.
cals.ncsu.edu
November 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
More like The Gone-Away World… It’s fascinating to me: so much of what people get hung up on in my writing as “weird” is just how the real world works. We are *remarkably* unable to accept what’s in front of us.
As instructed! @bigbeardedbookseller.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:45 PM
As instructed! @bigbeardedbookseller.com
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To clarify, no, Alison Hammond (lovely though she is) didn’t “write a book”.
Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison)
Not that you’d know it😕
#TheActualWriter
#CelebrityFiction
Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison)
Not that you’d know it😕
#TheActualWriter
#CelebrityFiction
November 23, 2024 at 9:23 AM
To clarify, no, Alison Hammond (lovely though she is) didn’t “write a book”.
Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison)
Not that you’d know it😕
#TheActualWriter
#CelebrityFiction
Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison)
Not that you’d know it😕
#TheActualWriter
#CelebrityFiction
Festive vibes last night in Bloomsbury - a throng outside Noble Rot for their (free!) Beaujolais nouveau tasting; suitably wintery chestnuts for sale; a peak into the local florist - local events like these make London’s dark evenings a joy
November 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Festive vibes last night in Bloomsbury - a throng outside Noble Rot for their (free!) Beaujolais nouveau tasting; suitably wintery chestnuts for sale; a peak into the local florist - local events like these make London’s dark evenings a joy
Do any other writers have a helper?? (Alt text is kinda more accurate description tbf)
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Do any other writers have a helper?? (Alt text is kinda more accurate description tbf)
Absolutely this ✨
The secret is that other writers aren't competition; they're peers, colleagues and friends. Someone who reads me is going to read other writers as well; the entire publishing economy is "yes, and." Therefore it does me no harm, and much good, to support other writers and to wish them well.
And Heinlein would have approved! Terry Pratchett said, "Most SF writers were once fans. There's a habit they have, not of paying back, but of paying forward; I know of no other branch of literature where the established "names" so keenly encourage wannabe writers to become their future competitors
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Absolutely this ✨
First post! Last night’s sky… 🌑
November 16, 2024 at 8:30 AM
First post! Last night’s sky… 🌑