Anna Fielding
@annafielding.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Formerly associate ed of Stylist. Anna.fielding@gmail.com
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How many people would be comfortable buying a wedding ring that had been seized from a refugee. Maybe it was the last item they had to remember a loved one.
Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
How many people would be comfortable buying a wedding ring that had been seized from a refugee. Maybe it was the last item they had to remember a loved one.
Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
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Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
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An absolutely fascinating and infuriating history of the development of "Rape kits." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little · Nutshell Crime Scenes: The Rape Kit
The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers....
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November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
An absolutely fascinating and infuriating history of the development of "Rape kits." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Our new street goes hard for Halloween. We were besieged by ghouls, witches, a pack of werewolves, "a haunted china doll" (strong work that girl) and the smallest yeti you ever saw.
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our new street goes hard for Halloween. We were besieged by ghouls, witches, a pack of werewolves, "a haunted china doll" (strong work that girl) and the smallest yeti you ever saw.
Working from lovely, retro Jessie's today, safe from the rain
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Working from lovely, retro Jessie's today, safe from the rain
I keep thinking -whenever I look at the angry, frothing misinformation on my local Facebook group - about starting a media literacy course at the local libraries. Bad information makes people scared and miserable! But how could you do this in a way that was useful, not patronising and appealing?
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I keep thinking -whenever I look at the angry, frothing misinformation on my local Facebook group - about starting a media literacy course at the local libraries. Bad information makes people scared and miserable! But how could you do this in a way that was useful, not patronising and appealing?
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Everyone who comments on any article ever
hey i skimmed your post and saw some words i recognize. anyway here's my opinion on what i imagine you said
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Everyone who comments on any article ever
"Oh sweetheart, I'm so sorry. How are you all feeling? I hope it's not too rough"
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Oh sweetheart, I'm so sorry. How are you all feeling? I hope it's not too rough"
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The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
The current Traitors cliff hanger is a tough moment for your average middle-aged, heterosexual woman #celebritytraitors
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The current Traitors cliff hanger is a tough moment for your average middle-aged, heterosexual woman #celebritytraitors
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
Check out The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 - <p>“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.
Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.
Immigrants in Britain are not an isolated monolith. They are part of families, of couples, of so many networks based on love and support, not just on money. If indefinite leave to remain goes, then my partner and I will both leave the country.
October 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Immigrants in Britain are not an isolated monolith. They are part of families, of couples, of so many networks based on love and support, not just on money. If indefinite leave to remain goes, then my partner and I will both leave the country.
There's a cutesy-fication that happens with a lot of US discourse, there are wine moms, soccer moms, cat ladies. Older people are "so cute!", gay people showing affection to one another is "cute". It seems pretty linguistically entrenched.
I think it's kind of nasty and reductive to refer to mature women who marched today as "wine moms and grandmas," even when it's said in admiration or support
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
There's a cutesy-fication that happens with a lot of US discourse, there are wine moms, soccer moms, cat ladies. Older people are "so cute!", gay people showing affection to one another is "cute". It seems pretty linguistically entrenched.
Totally fascinated by this - something so big that I had no idea about.
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Totally fascinated by this - something so big that I had no idea about.
Died on press day
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Died on press day
One of the men plastering downstairs is doing it on STILTS, properly flying about the room. Is this normal? Or was he an acrobat in a former life?
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
One of the men plastering downstairs is doing it on STILTS, properly flying about the room. Is this normal? Or was he an acrobat in a former life?
Fascinated to read this about artist Lee Lozano, who made an art of withdrawing. The headline made me defensive and pitying, but there's much more to Lozano. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...
She Didn’t Speak to Other Women for 28 Years. What Did It Cost Her?
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Fascinated to read this about artist Lee Lozano, who made an art of withdrawing. The headline made me defensive and pitying, but there's much more to Lozano. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
The Goonies - and I have zero interest in changing that.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Goonies - and I have zero interest in changing that.
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Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn
Mitford Sisters; champagne and shepherd's pie; Christmas shopping in Fortnums and Hatchards
What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Mitford Sisters; champagne and shepherd's pie; Christmas shopping in Fortnums and Hatchards
My version of Proper Binmen
Just heard one of the binmen shout to the other "that's why I love you, Tom", but sadly couldn't hear what he said after as the truck is ingesting rubbish.
September 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
My version of Proper Binmen
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For reasons I've had to complete the FA's safeguarding training, and whilst taking nothing from the seriousness of the subject, I will never stop finding it funny that the FA has a whistleblowing policy.
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
For reasons I've had to complete the FA's safeguarding training, and whilst taking nothing from the seriousness of the subject, I will never stop finding it funny that the FA has a whistleblowing policy.