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ReadWrite Managing Editor
Founder: How To Be Books
Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise:
📰 Breaking and world news
🎰 iGaming Managing Editor
💻Tech Editor
ℹ OSINT and conflict
✊🏾 Feminism
♻️ Climate change
🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst
♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate
📚 Book nerd and writer
🎙🎧 Podcaster
🎸 Guitarist
🎨 Painter
🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs)
🌎 Traveller
Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
I wrote this poem for a magazine that had the theme of ‘devour’ this month. I think I was inspired reading Hekate.
#poetry #IWD #motherhood #MothersDay
https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/erasure?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
A special poem for International Women's Day.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
It's been a while since I wrote something rather tongue-in-cheek…
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
This poem examines the difference between shared origin and shared care.
Content Warning: abusive family dynamics
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
I need your help! I’ve had major writer’s block for a while, and I need your opinion on this. I have to read it at an open mic this weekend, and the theme is the 90s. I wrote this in 10 minutes.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
I haven’t written in a while, but this was written in memory of a friend who recently passed.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
Following on from my previous post, this is one of the side effects...
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
“To be sick is to suffer in the hands of the living.”
— Emily Dickinson
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
This is for all marginalised communities that have been hurt by hate.
CW: emotional manipulation, extremist communities, trauma.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
This is probably relevant for every platform, but I can’t be the only one dying a death trying to keep up with social media...
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
Inspired by Van Gogh’s Irises, painted during his time at Saint-Rémy. The poem reflects on the body as another kind of study.
CW: self-harm, mental health.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
Well, it wouldn’t be Halloween if we didn’t have something related to the season. But I’ve been thinking about the idea of witches for a while and what women have endured for centuries when accused.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
Inspired by the strength of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl. There's a content warning with this as a result.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
I came across my old journals from more than ten years ago, and they read like some kind of Shakespearean tragedy. But it got me thinking about alternate realities.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
Another short poem to untangle something in my head. Apologies, as always, for the lack of filter.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
A short poem in response to our current climate, with a subtle nod to a classic dystopian novel. This has a content warning related to war and state violence.
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
#Fotomontag one of the best kept secrets in my opinion. This is Bohinj Valley and Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia.
Lake Bohinj lies in the heart of the Triglav National Park, one of the oldest national parks in Europe, and is the largest Slovenian natural lake. Whilst the 1.6km Vintgar Gorge is housed in the same area. #Slovenia
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)
ReadWrite Managing Editor Founder: How To Be Books Ex-NationalWorld, Dataminr, ITV and Channel 4 News editor. Expertise: 📰 Breaking and world news 🎰 iGaming Managing Editor 💻Tech Editor ℹ OSINT and conflict ✊🏾 Feminism ♻️ Climate change 🇨🇳🇮🇳 China and India watcher, analyst ♿🧠 Disabled, mental health advocate 📚 Book nerd and writer 🎙🎧 Podcaster 🎸 Guitarist 🎨 Painter 🎞 Movies and TV (horror, true crime, docs) 🌎 Traveller Podcast: www.howtobe247.com. My views. (She/her)