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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 17h

This story - see also @londoncentric.media - is really upsetting and just awful. I emailed Neil Coyle MP just now to urge him to intervene - so should YOU.

RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

'Last Wednesday, I received a call from Faye Gomes, owner of exceptional Guyanese restaurant Kaieteur Kitchen. Almost in tears, she told me she, along with 3 other food traders had been locked out of their premises at Castle Square in Elephant and Castle'

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/theres-one...

There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants

The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

'Last Wednesday, I received a call from Faye Gomes, owner of exceptional Guyanese restaurant Kaieteur Kitchen. Almost in tears, she told me she, along with 3 other food traders had been locked out of their premises at Castle Square in Elephant and Castle'

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/theres-one...

There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants

The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

www.vittlesmagazine.com

RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

this morning's first two candidates in the Chopin competition are just wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBD...

The 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (morning session), 7.10.2025

YouTube video by Chopin Institute

www.youtube.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

A level of inanity has been introduced that is truly depressing

RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I really miss Petroch Trelawney on radio 3 breakfast

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Marlon Rando @christinamcmc.bsky.social · 2d

Had this on all morning while I work and not only is it immensely soothing, but it's wonderful to see such talented people playing such beautiful music. It's on until 20th October too, what joy! www.youtube.com/live/sIgtpt5...

The 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (morning session), 6.10.2025

YouTube video by Chopin Institute

www.youtube.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

watched hours on youtube over the weekend - so good! also the storyville doc about it

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 7d

Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again.

¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.

Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.

🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations!

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

This morning it is glamorous novelist Marlowe Granados's views on martinis for @vittles.bsky.social

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/serious-bu...

Serious Business

Marlowe Granados on martinis.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 22d

jus' chilling, listening to my partner read a Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline story to our daughter through the baby monitor

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 22d

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb!

3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom

£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words

📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 23d

Unbelievable riches in this mag-within-a-mag Paris Special in @vittles.bsky.social that @jonathandnunn.bsky.social has edited

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-pa...

Vittles Paris

A six-part supplement on the greatest food city in Europe, including a guide and map to eating out. Featuring Jonathan Nunn, Justinien Tribillon, Wendy Huynh, Vadim Poulet, Jack Franco and many more.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 24d

I have this one and it’s great!

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 27d

I need more Maigret!

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 27d

ah very similar! in fact the Polish one marta describes doesn't have to have pasta in either, and is served either lukewarm or cold - close relations!

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Apoorva Sripathi @apoorvasripathi.bsky.social · 28d

for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you

More than just Dal

Apoorva Sripathi's quick and easy sundals using green lentils and chickpeas, plus a refreshing roasted peach and rosewater lassi.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 27d

Marta Zboralska on a dish she loves but which many people hate – fruit soup – and recipes for cooking from the polski sklep on @vittles.bsky.social

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cooking-fr...

Cooking from the Polski Sklep

Marta Zboralska’s recipes for zupa owocowa (fruit soup) and naleśniki z serem (pancakes with sweet cheese filling). Photos by Georgia Rudd.

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · Sep 5

If reports of the EHRC guidance are correct, it is not compatible with trans people's human rights.

It would usher in a system of segregation, policed via threats of legal action by those with money to burn.

Trans people, as well as people who are not trans, face harassment.

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Plus my partner and my brother who I made read it but possibly no one else?! I inhaled them in a feverish way and felt mad no one else was saying the same !

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Adore the mirror visitor!

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

www.theguardian.com

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 19

thank you!

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RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 19

I am excited to be working with Gabriella Doob at Ecco books for the US publication of my next book Meal Time, alongside Željka Marošević at Jonathan Cape! <3

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