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solidarity is fucking beautiful www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Reading this bland and vague "local crime" story you'd never know that the guy charged with murder, Billy Allison, is the founder of flag-shagging Raise the Colours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

We're thrilled to announce that Hum by Helen Phillips is the winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize! “Hum deals with love, community and family in the face of the climate crisis, privilege and the age of AI.” Arifa Akbar, Chair of Judges

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I'm just saying read this ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/i... I'd already bought it but I am now putting it at the top of my tbr #booksky

Alfredo's book is a magnificent homage to photons in all of their manifestations! You should grab a copy! #BookSky 🧪🔭⚛️

Thanks to the @clarkeaward.bsky.social Submissions list! Without it I'm not sure I wouldn't have encountered A Line You Have Traced @roisinmcd.bsky.social and it has turned out to be the loveliest surprise 💜

A brisk, right up to date, very accessible account of the rise of the far right in the UK, some ways of understanding why, and (most welcome) some positive strategies for resisting and reversing. From @trillingual.bsky.social via @picadorbooks.bsky.social

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

Will Self is currently writing one of the best regular politics and culture columns you’re likely to read, and for reasons that remain a mystery doing so exclusively on Facebook and X. This week he has weighed in on the AI writing crisis, and his thoughts are typically piercing and brilliant.

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It's that time again! I've read 33 with another 3 to fit in before the shortlist announcement. There are LOTS of good books there and some great ones - feels like a very fitting set of submissions to celebrate the 40th birthday of the Clarke 🚀🛸

I've been writing these short essays about reading and writing a lot as I try to work out how I actually think about these two basic and yet incredibly complex acts; here I go again vajra.me/2026/05/15/t...

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A brilliant discussion as Lucy Caldwell manages to fill a bookful of literary insights and wisdom into an hour. I genuinely can't recommend this enough! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l... #booksky

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And even more delighted to be announcing this year’s Clarke Award shortlist as part of the Festival! 🚀

I reviewed Fonda Lee's THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO for the NYTBR: "The physicality of her novel — fight scenes that rattle your bones, descriptions of space you can inhabit and food you can taste — counterbalances what would otherwise be an unbearable, claustrophobic bleakness." Here's a gift link

Another preorder for me. Really looking forward to it: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #booksky

Lots of good reading suggestions: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #booksky

This and The Palm House are top of my reading list after I've finished my yearly catch-up of (not) all the books in contention for the #ClarkeAward. Great review by M John Harrison 💜 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... #booksky

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While ordinary British families struggle to cope with rising energy prices, oil giant BP has more than doubled its profits in the wake of Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war - an absolute disgrace. We need a further windfall tax now. news.sky.com/story/oil-gi...

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2026 now officially forecast to be permanent death-birth crossover year Gap will only get wider from now Migration only source of population growth - but a lot less of it than was projected last time

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It's been a hard week & this conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @chanda.blacksky.app really brought me back to remembering to move against despair. "It is easy to give in to despair, but now more than ever, we have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this" 🔥🔥🔥

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

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I regret to inform you that the techno fascist billionaires are continuing to do dumb horrible things. As a result, I must keep writing about them. Alex Karp edition: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Happy book birthday to Nina Allan 💙 The Illuminated Man, co-written with Chris Priest, is out today: www.ninaallan.co.uk?p=7300

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I think The Illuminated Man (the Ballard biog, but also, as they discuss, more than that) is a really fascinating and powerful book. Out next Thursday.

An extract from IF WE TOLERATE THIS is today's Guardian Long Read. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

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