I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...

The lonesome foghorn blows.

www.theguardian.com/education/20... #education

Exciting news: www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad... #booksky

Woah. Thanks for all the love! Huge thanks to The Last Leg, Judi & Grace and all the production crew for making such a brilliant show. You can watch the whole thing here: www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly. On the bourgeois novel:

Richard Seymour writes about Your Party www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @leninology.bsky.social

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... #booksky

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatecrisis

Freyja Stokes goes deep into the historical connections between European witchcraft and sex work, and draws out how #Pratchett uses these in the person of Mrs Palm. It's got history AND sexy puns... This one's very reasonably-priced - it's free! Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com

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I liked Rebecca Campbell's collection The Other Shore: locusmag.com/review/the-o...

salvage.zone/the-politics... Great essay by Andreas Malm #anticapitalism #climatecrisis

As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...

My thanks to @helenmcclory.bsky.social‬ for sharing A Personal Anthology. Happy to find @mjohnharrison.bsky.social has contributed introductions to, comments on a selection of short stories he's enjoyed.

President-elect Catherine Connolly had a landslide victory with 63% of the vote, a turnout of 46 % exceeding 2018. • 15,000 campaign volunteers • 350,000 raised, •21,000 posters, • 60+ towns & villages visits • 1,000s of geansaís, Ts, totes & badges…. #Áras25 #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Connolly

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #booksky

First time I've listened to one of their podcasts but I'll be listening to more. But yh, if you want a thoughtful, informed, fascinating discussion of #Andor listen to this: www.patreon.com/posts/138772... @tangledwilderness.bsky.social

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatecrisis

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan arrested at her home at behest of UK Health Minister Wes Streeting for public support of Palestine: Doctor “is part of a fast-growing group of NHS staff facing intimidation, censorship, and professional discrimination.” | Skwawkbox for The Canary www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish. He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation. He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers. But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.

"close reading has its own sense of delight, one that comes from pursuing a path where, as [Stephanie Insley] Hershinow writes, the 'audacious, difficult, risky […] and thrilling' align. It’s enough to make the heart skip a beat"

I have written to Lisa Nandy, following her grossly misleading comments over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban. This is about a group of fans with a history of racism and violence. It is not about banning Jewish people - and any attempt to conflate the two is shameful.

CONGRATS TO RAKESFALL @vajra.me !!!!!

Excellent article by Barnaby Raine from the latest Salvage: salvage.zone/what-do-peop...

Here’s @akankshya.bsky.social on Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child (trans. Martin Aitken for @ndbooks.bsky.social): “Ironically, in this reimagination of social horror, Ravn creatively makes space for (slapstick) comedy.” On witchcraft and society, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social:

“They swagger and strut, like children imitating the fabled omnipotence of adults, soliciting, and seemingly revelling in, global disgust. We cannot be touched, they seem to say, by the shaming gaze of the world.” @leninology.bsky.social salvage.zone/the-atrocity...

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #booksky

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She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Great list: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... #booksky

“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.” Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇 jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

End of the month, and that means: the link round-up is upon us! Some cool reviews, some great interviews, and some insightful essays from around the web: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/29/w...

I gave up on McEwan a long time ago but this lovely review from Nina Allan has convinced me to try the new one: www.ninaallan.co.uk?p=7171 #booksky

The problem with the makers of BBC Panorama programme is that they genuinely think they "exposed" a otherwise "hidden culture" of misogyny and racism inside the Metropolitan Police, when really they just reconfirmed it www.bbc.com/news/article...

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... #booksky

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.