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Gianluca Cangemi
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I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors
After much thought, and with great regret, I am resigning my membership of the SoA. When my friend and co-author - a writer, bookseller, publisher and cultural advocate - has his premises ransacked by police and is dragged away in handcuffs in front of his 11-year-old daughter, then dumped in a cell while police confiscate hundreds of books imported from global corporate and independent publishing houses on the absurd accusation of incitement, and my own trade union turns its back, I cannot let it stand. This statement https://societyofauthors.org/2025/02/13/a-statement-from-the-soa-board/ added insult to the injury. It omits mention of my friend’s name, his identity, his location, his bookshop, the identity of those arresting and abusing him and the facts of what took place. I would have hoped my trade union would have taken this opportunity to illuminate the evils of state censorship and defend those who seek to practise freedom. Instead, it obscured understanding of the issues with platitudes and irrelevant assertions. It was an abject failure. The police were Israeli. The location was Jerusalem. The writer and bookseller they abused is named Mahmoud Muna. He was arrested with his relative Ahmad Muna. They are Palestinian. The bookshop is not a nameless, generic institution: it is a business that trades under the name of The Educational Bookshop. I have no idea why my trade union chose, under these circumstances, to make erroneous claims as to the nature of the democracy prevailing within the country that sent armed police to jail a bookseller, but my suspicion is it may have formed a cack-handed attempt to exculpate the oppressors. Either way, my patience has run out. I am cancelling my direct debit today, until such time as the SoA finds its backbone and starts standing up for me and writers like me. With regret, in fury Matthew Teller
February 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I became persuaded that, in the privileged world today, we love #cats out of gratitude—for they guide us back to the Wild and the Feral (some would say the Divine) at a very deep level and in healthy ways (minus the sleepless nights!). That’s why I radically distrust those unsympathetic to them.
A black-and-white comic by Sarah Andersen features a mischievous black cat and its doting huan companion. The cat declares its chaotic behaviors—waking the human at 3 AM, knocking things over, digging claws into the human's flesh when showing affection, and refusing food—while the human looks adoring. In the final panel, the cat promises to murder small innocent animals and bring their frech corpses to the human, and the human, wide-eyed with love, cuddles the cat, calling it “KITTY BABY.”
January 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM