Nicola Slawson

1 week ago | thesinglesupplement.substack.com | Mel Johnson |Nicola Slawson

After a period of back to back illnesses, associated sleep deprivation and a variety of other time-sucking things that required my full attention, I’m back with one of my promised guest pieces. I have a few ready to go and am excited to start with this one by Mel Johnson. Long time readers will know I’ve mentioned Mel, who runs the Stork and I community for people who are solo mothers by choice or considering going down that route.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Nicola Slawson

Good morning. The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said yesterday, a move that the former US president Barack Obama called “unlawful and ham-handed”. The Ivy League school chose earlier in the day to fight the White House’s demands that it crack down on antisemitism and alleged civil rights violations, including shutting down diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Nicola Slawson

Good morning. Donald Trump’s tariff war has plunged deeper into chaos after a cabinet official floated a plan for new levies on semiconductors – a crucial component in electronic goods – just days after the Trump administration exempted computers and smartphones from tariffs. Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told NBC the tariff exemption on several electronic devices was temporary, and that new duties would come in “a month or two”. Semiconductors would be targeted, he said.

2 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Nicola Slawson

. Feb. 2025. 368p. ISBN 9780143137801. pap. $20. SELF-HELP COPY ISBN Journalist Slawson, author of The Single Supplement newsletter, challenges the dominant narrative of the unhappy single person with this book’s stories of unpartnered people living independent and authentic lives. She spends equal time examining big-picture ways in which single people are often rendered invisible in society and the smaller moments of awkwardness and discomfort.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Nicola Slawson

Good morning. As Donald Trump prepared to unveil a swathe of reciprocal tariffs, global markets braced themselves and some Republican senators voiced their opposition to a strategy that critics warn risks a global trade war, provoking retaliation by major trading partners such as China, Canada and the EU. The US president said on Monday he would be “very kind” to trading partners when he unveils further tariffs this week, possibly as early as Tuesday night.