Yvonne Singh
@yvonnesingh.bsky.social
Editor, Journalist, Writer. Lecturer at City Lit, London and Canterbury Christchurch. Judge 2020 @SI Leeds
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‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today
www.theguardian.com
Preview of my book INK! out in the Guardian today - 'A poet for his people'. Economic insecurity, Race riots, incendiary media. Sound familiar? It was 100 years ago. If only we could learn history's lessons....
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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Collapsing like a balloon full of hot toxic gas.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
Reform 'over halfway' towards losing their majority in Kent - as ANOTHER councillor suspended
Around 16% of the Reform councillors who were elected in Kent earlier this year no longer represent the party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Collapsing like a balloon full of hot toxic gas.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
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🔥 Coming up fast!!
Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy?
On 4th November at 7pm, join our live (free!) online event with:
▪️George Monbiot
▪️ Nafeez Ahmed
▪️ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
▪️ Nick Lowles
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy?
On 4th November at 7pm, join our live (free!) online event with:
▪️George Monbiot
▪️ Nafeez Ahmed
▪️ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
▪️ Nick Lowles
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🔥 Coming up fast!!
Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy?
On 4th November at 7pm, join our live (free!) online event with:
▪️George Monbiot
▪️ Nafeez Ahmed
▪️ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
▪️ Nick Lowles
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy?
On 4th November at 7pm, join our live (free!) online event with:
▪️George Monbiot
▪️ Nafeez Ahmed
▪️ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
▪️ Nick Lowles
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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Dutch liberals, together with the Dutch center-right, fight back
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Dutch Voters Deliver Major Setback to Far-Right Party of Geert Wilders
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Dutch liberals, together with the Dutch center-right, fight back
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Yes, yes, yes!
Now this is the sort of talk and policy that will get me to join a political party. Keep it up @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.politico.eu/article/end-...
Now this is the sort of talk and policy that will get me to join a political party. Keep it up @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.politico.eu/article/end-...
Ending EU free movement a ‘disaster’ for Britain, says Green Party’s Zack Polanski
The party’s new leader calls for the migration pact to be reinstated as he sets out his stall on Brexit.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Yes, yes, yes!
Now this is the sort of talk and policy that will get me to join a political party. Keep it up @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.politico.eu/article/end-...
Now this is the sort of talk and policy that will get me to join a political party. Keep it up @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.politico.eu/article/end-...
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Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you
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October 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Quite a rise. Well done @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...
Blimey! Green Party now polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
YouGov’s latest polling shows a collapse in support for Labour and the Tories, stagnation for Reform… and historic highs for the Green Party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Quite a rise. Well done @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...
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Congratulations to @citylit.bsky.social writing tutor @yvonnesingh.bsky.social, whose book "INK!: From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who Transformed Britain" is out now from The History Press!
‘Terrific ... A must read.’ -- Irenosen Okojie MBE
‘Terrific ... A must read.’ -- Irenosen Okojie MBE
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Congratulations to @citylit.bsky.social writing tutor @yvonnesingh.bsky.social, whose book "INK!: From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who Transformed Britain" is out now from The History Press!
‘Terrific ... A must read.’ -- Irenosen Okojie MBE
‘Terrific ... A must read.’ -- Irenosen Okojie MBE
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"Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today"
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today"
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
A section of Yvonne's book was also adapted into a Guardian Long Read article on Claude McKay this month:
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What. An. Honour. Thanks Steve! Thanks for including the light down there in that horrorscape...
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What. An. Honour. Thanks Steve! Thanks for including the light down there in that horrorscape...
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Labour’s reply was too long coming and weak.
You either believe Katie Lam’s statement is inhumane and racist or you don’t. What you shouldn’t need is 24 hours to think about it.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
You either believe Katie Lam’s statement is inhumane and racist or you don’t. What you shouldn’t need is 24 hours to think about it.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Labour’s reply was too long coming and weak.
You either believe Katie Lam’s statement is inhumane and racist or you don’t. What you shouldn’t need is 24 hours to think about it.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
You either believe Katie Lam’s statement is inhumane and racist or you don’t. What you shouldn’t need is 24 hours to think about it.
@sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @stellacreasy.bsky.social
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
Politicians can make statements like these - without realising the consequences....
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Politicians can make statements like these - without realising the consequences....
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Yes yes yes 👍
The botched Brexit deal dreamt up by the Farage and delivered by the Conservatives has brought nothing but red-tape and economic misery.
The government must now deliver their promised “EU-reset” - starting with a new UK-EU Customs Union.
The government must now deliver their promised “EU-reset” - starting with a new UK-EU Customs Union.
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Yes yes yes 👍
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'It’s almost poetic that the loudest voices now decrying Britain’s immigration numbers are the same ones who fought hardest for Brexit’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU
They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
'It’s almost poetic that the loudest voices now decrying Britain’s immigration numbers are the same ones who fought hardest for Brexit’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
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#Rochester #Medway #Kent
We outnumbered #UKIP again with around 200 of us and a total of...15 of them.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social
18th was also #NOKINGS! We had a frog from across the pond in attendance 🐸🇺🇸
@50501activists.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
We outnumbered #UKIP again with around 200 of us and a total of...15 of them.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social
18th was also #NOKINGS! We had a frog from across the pond in attendance 🐸🇺🇸
@50501activists.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#Rochester #Medway #Kent
We outnumbered #UKIP again with around 200 of us and a total of...15 of them.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social
18th was also #NOKINGS! We had a frog from across the pond in attendance 🐸🇺🇸
@50501activists.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
We outnumbered #UKIP again with around 200 of us and a total of...15 of them.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social
18th was also #NOKINGS! We had a frog from across the pond in attendance 🐸🇺🇸
@50501activists.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
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"They've chosen Farage to build up as an ally who has the potential to be someone like a JD Vance figure," journalist Jane Bradley tells The News Agents.
"Sources told me that lawyers for the ADF in the UK effectively said he's the best out of a bad bunch"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...
"Sources told me that lawyers for the ADF in the UK effectively said he's the best out of a bad bunch"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...
Is Nigel Farage being used as a pawn by US Christian extremists? | The News Agents
A New York Times report suggests Nigel Farage is being backed by Alliance Defending Freedom – a conservative Christian group dedicated to rolling back rights of many groups in the US. What does this…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"They've chosen Farage to build up as an ally who has the potential to be someone like a JD Vance figure," journalist Jane Bradley tells The News Agents.
"Sources told me that lawyers for the ADF in the UK effectively said he's the best out of a bad bunch"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...
"Sources told me that lawyers for the ADF in the UK effectively said he's the best out of a bad bunch"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...
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‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council
Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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And now I am off to Sheffield @otsfestival.bsky.social to talk race, class and history (and my book *Not So Black and White*) with Sunjeev Sahota offtheshelf.org.uk/events/not-s...
Kenan Malik Photo credit Tom Trevatt Photography
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October 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And now I am off to Sheffield @otsfestival.bsky.social to talk race, class and history (and my book *Not So Black and White*) with Sunjeev Sahota offtheshelf.org.uk/events/not-s...
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Ilkley was fun last night. There I am frantically trying to scramble onto the pile. Looking forward to Manchester today.
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ilkley was fun last night. There I am frantically trying to scramble onto the pile. Looking forward to Manchester today.