Does anyone know of opportunities to volunteer with people in distress? I ask as someone looking to apply to train as a psychotherapist with an organisation that requires such volunteering experience

I urgently need a new job and sense of direction after a period of illness and a planned withdrawal from my PhD

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

'Alice survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.'

Has anyone written about epistolary form and 20th-21st C poetry?

🚨 National March for Palestine - Stop Starving Gaza ⏰ Saturday 6 September, 12pm 📍 Central London (route TBC) Join us as we march again for Palestine in London. Our govt is feeling the pressure to end complicity in Israel's violence but we must keep pushing until they #StopArmingIsrael.

“We’re here to talk about A levels” “Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

Tickets now available for next thing, which I almost called "the cuck chair and the noise table" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uma-breakd...

Keir Starmer comes to mind: 'He doesn’t know what he dreamed last night – or ever: “I don’t dream.” Just hits the pillow at 11 and – “bang” – is out till around 5. He doesn’t have a favourite novel or poem, wasn’t scared of anything as a child.' www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Eighty years after the destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the UK is still pouring billions into nuclear weapons. Donate today and support a world rooted in care, not mass destruction. #HiroshimaDay www.medact.org/2025/appeals...

This international cat day I have seen one black/brown/white slightly long-haired tabby on the doorstep of the apartment I'm staying in

After admiring cows with bells running across the alm where I'm on holiday I loved watching Holly White's Videos of Cows, filmed in Switzerland www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbQc...

An open letter to M&S that people can sign openletter.earth/an-appeal-to...

Eighty years since Hiroshima – I remember the strangely superficial terms in which the event was discussed in history classes: as a curious moral dilemma, an exercise in moral reasoning and the calculus of human life/death, quick to pass over its monstrosity

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

RP2.19 out now! Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose FTC Manning on real abstraction Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani Interview with Sophie Lewis Paulin Hountondji obit www.radicalphilosophy.com

Have you signed our open letter yet? We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE. Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice: openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

Diamond Stingily – Profile by Amrita Dhallu Only in the July–August Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Diamond Stingily, May 29, 2025] #art

NUS: Stop silencing students on Palestine palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NUSstopsilen...

A quick reminder of why we are here. Thru their medical campaign, Sameer, partnering w/TechMed, will help Misk, who lost her parents and siblings in an airstrike. She is now the only survivor along w/her uncle. She needs surgery, emotional support, and nutrition. chuffed.org/project/1368...

‘In making Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation, the government has added it to a list that includes al-Qaida, the UDA and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, all of which advocate terror and murder to achieve political ends.’ Huw Lemmey: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

'At the same moment as this genocidal famine reached a crisis point, Columbia University agreed to a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration to atone for student protests against the destruction of Gaza.' open.substack.com/pub/immersch...

‘The proscription of Palestine Action crosses a new threshold. In the injunction proceedings, Mr Justice Chamberlain accepted that PA had not committed violence against any person or endangered life or created a risk to health or safety.’ David Renton in the next issue www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Never tire of knowing people enjoyed The Wastes <3

'The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.' www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Can anyone help Francis raise funds for gender affirming surgery? www.gofundme.com/f/genderaffi...

A new teleportation open.substack.com/pub/teleport...

I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.

The Porch School of Poetry is under repair -- donate if you can to Poetry State Forest www.instagram.com/p/DMdCbohunU...

'I think of her in her apartment in the 10th arrondissement just writing and writing, relentless to the end.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Hackney Council is hiking nursery fees by up to 69% – £500 more a month for some families. Parents are fighting back – and need your help. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ha...

Holly's research into and alongside the Peter Wollen archive at the BFI. Want to spend more time with her and his work. <3

How many more versions of this will we read?! Sarah Brouillette's work on publishing as feminised labour is crucial here; as we have always known, in any area, 'more women' always equals 'too many'

New OPEN ACCESS article by Isabell Dahms, 'Staging dyke cruising encounters in 1980s and 1990s London' journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Very sorry to hear about the loss of Parnia Abbasi www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

Fuck Wes Streeting. Fuck Palantir www.bmj.com/content/388/...

'I was kept busy drinking & trying to find a way to outline a theory of metaphor that was generative & I have Ricoeur to thank for that, him and the UCU strikes were a big help in tearing me away from a career that would have killed me.' communityofgoods.blogspot.com/2025/06/lett...

Falkner got a good grilling in the latest women's and Equalities committee meeting. And that was thanks to everyone writing in and getting in touch with their MPs. Let's keep the pressure up. You can find writing campaigns and more and things you can do below: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Han Dee writes about Trieste salvage.zone/trieste-wher... just ahead of this Saturday's MHSJN event at Birkbeck mhsjnetwork.wordpress.com/events/

'It will sound romantic if I say that I only love my country when cop cars are burning. But what kind of love is there other than love for the miraculous in people?' immerschon.substack.com/p/my-beautif...

The surgeon asked when I first sat down about the keffiyeh badge I was wearing, saying he'd been attending some demos. Expressed my gratitude for anaesthetic, reflecting on the horrendous forms of surgery that have been taking place without it. 'I'm Palestinian,' he said, 'thanks for your sympathy'

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.

A mix from one year ago but only just finding/listening soundcloud.com/eris-drew/er...

Last night I felt some intense communication regrets, planned some writing out for an end July deadline (thinking of threading this piece through with different appearances and meanings of purple/lilac/lavender/deep blackberry), then finished reading The Descent of Alette

The alumni and faculty of the Whitney Independent Study Program (where I was a Critical Studies participant 2016–17) have written an open letter in support of the 2024–25 cohort ispalumni.org

Having two wisdom teeth out this morning at weird NHS private partner place. Will be grateful for anaesthetic and asking to keep the teeth

Art Monthly, Issue 487, June 2025 • Liliane Lijn interviewed by Chris Clarke • Class Distinction – Morgan Quaintance • Jasper Marsalis – Profile by Michael Kurtz • Letters from Warsaw and Milan – Nick Thurston • Leonardo Caffo + news, views, reviews and more…