The Border Crossing

News and discussion on trans legislation and life.

Thursday highlights about a classical piece or composer along with Saturday classical picks for a beautiful start to your weekend.

I started sharing, 40 years on, in full, my teenage diary from pre-digital 1984. In 1985 I went interrailing. And other writings: poems, songs, and other personal things I wish to write. To you. Thanks for subscribing.

Master potter Keith Brymer Jones and the restoration of Capel Salem, Pwllheli

A bird sound in your inbox every weekend, January to June

The focus of Random Rules is on meticulously crafted playlists that tell a story or explore a hyper-specific theme, like the history of shoegaze, or the best songs about cities, or a collection of diss tracks.

I'm Tamsin Bishton. I'm interested in detoxing from colonialism, being in nature and evolving climate consciousness. This is a place for me to write about my adventures looking racialised capitalism in the eye and seeing who blinks first. Welcome :-)

Writing, podcasts and other stuff by writer Joel Morris.

The reader is my notebook

Reflections on the changing forces shaping English towns and cities.

A place for my creative work. Writing about culture, especially books and film. And a serialised book about reading Marcel Proust.

Burnishing is about pottery and other slow pursuits; walking, reading, wondering at stuff, staring at trees - that kind of thing.

Helping writers earn millions of pounds in commissions since 2018. Calls for pitches, creative submissions, freelance and part-time writing jobs. All UK-based. Compiled by Sian Meades-Williams.

Sneaky birds.

Honest media criticism from a complete arsehole.

Notes from the way, words from the woods, water from the springs

My personal Substack

The Ragged Optimist's weekly, free newsletter, and for paid subscribers a monthly dive into seaside life, and urban regeneration.

Musings from the alternative younder via James Walsh, a man who sometimes lives in Brighton

Where hip writers meet hot rockers

Don't pigeonhole me: I am not a pigeon.

Some things that it might be useful to see written down.

From author John Higgs. Octannual updates published every six-and-a-bit weeks, plus New Moon Letters and a Midsummer Annual in the post every year

Welcome to this world of sharing and exploration, where together we will discover new tools and maps to navigate the storms of life. A warm-hearted and safe community to learn, reflect, remember, and share together.

a place where I publish stories and other writings

Singer author addicted to walking

My personal road to recovery and things that have helped me, since I had a stroke in 2017.

New and archival music writing from Wesley Doyle