Rowan Pelling

Can two weeks possibly have passed since the glorious Althorp Literary Festival? I particularly enjoyed the sign-offs in the hall by the sweeping staircase - here is @cspencer1508 with his moving memoir going head-to-head with historian @sauldavid66 https://t.co/oeDjJz9qZY

The ever-glorious @PersephoneBooks are launching this lost masterpiece today, essential reading for our own turbulent times: https://t.co/PDxYb4tMYi

Highlights of the @AlthorpLitFest

Charles Spencer @cspencer1508

Such a pleasure and privilege to interview the charismatic ⁦@HarlanCoben⁩ at the ⁦@AlthorpLitFest⁩ on Saturday. I also interviewed Bernard Cornwell yesterday - amazing that both gentlemen flew from the USA to be guests here. Both great writers, and fabulous company. https://t.co/dj3868r7lY

Much joy this weekend as the @AlthorpLitFest was revived with a wonderfully eclectic range of authors. I had a blast moderating talks with @paulajaynebyrne @chloedaltonuk @peterjamesuk and @sauldavid66 and Justine Picardie. Another great highlight was meeting Harriet Walter https://t.co/uZQDpj6JmR

Lovely to meet you Peter, great question and many thanks for my Palm Sunday cross too. And isn't @paulajaynebyrne an absolute superstar? I'm now totally immersed in Hardy Women.

Peter Goodlad @PeterMG4

@paulajaynebyrne @RowanPelling @AlthorpLitFest Congratulations to Paula and Rowan for a brilliant hour with Jane Austen: a life in small things. Informative, Exciting and inspiring!

I will be moderating four events at the glorious @AlthorpLitFest Fri-Sun. I'm hugely looking forward to talking to Justine Picardie about Coco Chanel, Paula Byrne about Jane Austen, @chloedaltonuk about Hare and Peter James on his thrillers. Come and join us, sun is forecast.

Charles Spencer @cspencer1508

I’m excited to have the ⁦@AlthorpLitFest⁩ returning to ⁦@AlthorpHouse⁩ this Friday-Sunday: so many fantastic authors kindly coming to stay, and speak. Weather set fair. Please go to https://t.co/jgeBcuSKZy if you want to come to any talks that haven’t sold out already https://t.co/JnnZA0aXql

I interviewed psychiatrist and writer Scott Haltzman @Haltzman on his best-selling book The Secrets of Surviving Infidelity for @Independent . I rather enjoyed his no-nonsense approach. He even furnishes a brief "goodbye" text to send your ex-lover: https://t.co/jfUB8AZ97l

Huge ongoing scandal, the fast-track #singlejusticeprocedure . Thank god @kirkkorner keeps banging the drum for reform. But is anyone in govt listening? Seems not.

Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner

Woman inherits her dad's car when he dies £35 in tax isn't paid while the family are in mourning Then she's convicted in the fast-track #SingleJusticeProcudure courts Reminder: Government is thinking of reforming the system, but hasn't done anything stop ongoing injustices https://t.co/ILNIT6c0DX

I lived for WH Smith's "win a pony" competition in the 1970s. Did anyone else spend their whole year plotting how to win a four-hoofed friend? https://t.co/aOPA1igEio

RT @toby00green: Almost unbelievable, but there it is. The Guardian has now reported what really happened in the Global South, and why.

Very much this.

Professor Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag

Oh I think there might be a lot more to it than that… they also needed to protect US colleagues. And also all of our pandemic plans were predicated on “not a leak” so that it could be portrayed as man v nature rather than bioterorrism… https://t.co/aekVo2HoEz

Never forget

Toby Green @toby00green

50 million people in Africa entered extreme poverty according to the UNDP, and the continent is now in "structural adjustment 2.0" -- Afrobarometer has noted the connections to lockdown policies. Only a handful of people in development sector talk about this openly.

Toby has long been one of the most insightful critics of covid policy, not just in the UK but the even more harmful aftereffects in developing countries, especially African nations. We must never forget.

Toby Green @toby00green

My Covid reflection day: Contact tracing reduced spread by 2-5%. Cost: £37 billion according to UK parliament. That's maybe 20 new hospitals, or the UK's entire annual transport budget. Vast profits to tech bros now pushing authoritarian capitalism. And yet we must "move on".

My admiration for @jessphillips is boundless.