Hannah Westwater
@hannahjtw.bsky.social
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Social affairs and inequalities journalist • mag editor @ Scottish Drugs Forum Music, football, pop culture, nonsense Glasgow • she/her
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Phone stolen for selfie (happy birthday @everebecca.bsky.social ) ((hello @hannahjtw.bsky.social ))
Policy and comms whizzes – come be my boss! SDF is a genuinely brilliant place to work full of sound people (and me) who count themselves lucky to be there.
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In belated ✨professional news✨, I said goodbye to freelancing a couple of weeks ago – am now in post as editor of an exciting new peer-led magazine at @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social. Delighted about it. And still all ears for any relevant tips!
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In today’s Observer I went to Stornoway on Lewis to talk to people about their local Tesco opening on Sundays.

The row has been painted by some as extreme religion versus progress - but I found a more complicated story about community, tradition and civic pride:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening
The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trend
www.theguardian.com
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Mark Zuckerberg announced that fact-checking will soon be a thing of the past on Facebook and Instagram. 📲

It means everyone must learn how to find information away from social media, experts said. @hannahjtw.bsky.social reports. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4jtLUUp
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Just steps from Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom, a UK-first drugs pilot is preparing to open its doors. 🚪

The safer drugs consumption room will finally launch on Monday after a decade of legal manoeuvring. 📄

@hannahjtw.bsky.social takes us inside... ⬇️
https://bit.ly/409I3TF
After nearly three years, this is my last week of freelancing before I move onto something exciting – fittingly I'm spending it at my old stomping ground @bigissue.com
Need a starter pack for the specific vibe I am interested in, which can be summarised as people with serious jobs who also understand and care about the significance of the Sushi Park balcony in Los Angeles California
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This is interesting. NPR left Twitter six months ago and saw only a single percentage point difference in traffic despite having over 8 million followers. (Algorithmic changes meant people weren’t seeing/engaging with their tweets anyway) niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible – Nieman Reports
niemanreports.org
Bestie in law follow me back right this minute god damnit
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if you’re glaswegian (or not), you can donate here to help a family from gaza that has arrived in our city! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-a-newly-arrived-gazan-family-in-glasgow?qid=b92860336e4f6ee669e977598f435c39
Ben Doak is gonna be a superstar when that frontal lobe develops
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👋 Hi new followers! Thought I would jump on the bandwagon and introduce myself…

I’m a freelance journalist based in Scotland and mostly working for UK outlets like the Guardian/Observer, BBC, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and lots more.
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⚠ 99% increase in refugee homelessness in the last 12 months.

The number of migrants and refugees experiencing homelessness is at RECORD levels according to NACCOM (The No Accommodation Network).

🧵 breaking this down.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
UK charity declares ‘refugee homelessness emergency’ as numbers hit record high
Naccom report says gaps in state support have led to more than 1,940 refugees having no accommodation
www.theguardian.com
Anyone got any good starter packs or feeds (if the latter are shareable…??) on Gaza/Palestine? This is nice and all but it’s feeling pretty isolated from reality. Like we’re all just waiting to lose our minds over the next Susie Dent burn
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A small starter of a few posters in/posting about Gaza
Ha ha ha this might work if the problem wasn’t specifically that they’re categorically not doing that 🙅🏻‍♀️
Jimmy could do absolutely anything, be as minimally creatively inspired as they like, forever, and I’d support it (I say, not going tonight)
a band that knows they’ve now got grown millennial fans with grown money on one side, younger fans who never got to see them originally and who don’t question eye-watering ticket prices on the other, and that at least for now they’re still too big to fail. Boring!
Well first of all, grumble, but really they reunited five years ago and have released ONE SINGLE (great) SONG in that time. But have no issue doing repeated big money nostalgia tours. Cash grab criticisms would be way louder if it was anyone else imo. It’s all very much the behaviour of