Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law. Farage is a traitor.

“Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is genuinely terrifying. People who arrived legally, and are living here within the law, to be deported en-masse? It's only a small step to then expelling anyone who disagrees with you. Make no mistake, Farage is as much a threat to democracy as his hero Trump 🤮 share.google/YdwRf9kQhZWT...

"Earlier this week, I was denied entry into Israel while on a humanitarian parliamentary delegation..." ...says a Jewish MP who has been to Israel many times. Israel is no friend of the UK nor any humanitarian principle.

Completely ridiculous. How is she a terrorist FFS

"A feeling that there must be a set of words in which the essence of the horror discovered in this century could be captured. . . the fate of man on earth is different from the one we were taught. Yet we recoil from giving it a name." Czeslaw Milosz 'The Search', Roadside Dog #poetry

Breaking. "To count as genocide [under the 1948 UN genocide convention], at least one of five acts must have occurred. The UN commission found that Israel had committed four of them." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The world right now is terrifying, enraging and heartbreaking, not by turns but all at once.

"I'd like Government contracts with Tesla to be cut and ended." “Elon Musk is not a fit and proper person to do business with” @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

Excellent to see Labour MPs call on the government to leave Elon Musk's hate-filled X. Doing so would spark an exodus of journalists & public bodies. Thank you @bengoldsborough.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk @alexballingermp.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

5/ Much more work is still needed after today to protect and restore England's peat bogs. We need a new Nature Bill that would, amongst many measures, outlaw the sale of horticultural peat, & ban driven grouse shooting. And we need much more action to stop the drainage of Fenland peat.

Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...

Coming soon. 1066 from the women's point of view - Jeopardy: Three Queens, One Throne - and a Poet. Who were the women at the court of Harold Godwinson? This novel tries to give the answers. #fiction #amwriting #history #anglosaxons

A year into government, Labour partnering with private capital indicates abandoned principles and prioritisation of corporate interests Cleisthenes’ Disciple northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

Thanks to vaccines & requiring school kids to be vaccinated, deadly measles was eradicated in 2000. HHS Sec'y & infamous vaccine denier RFK Jr. is happy there are now 1,288 active cases. A very dangerous man who should be removed from power. Speak out!

A #Roman glass vessel in a bluey-green-aqua colour, with a large bulbous body & elaborately-curled handles. Such a beautiful piece of ancient glass!

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We’re making the leap! @womenwritersnet.bsky.social is officially migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky on 1 September. We’re glad to start afresh in a space that feels better aligned with our mission to promote and support women writers. Glad to be here – and hope to see more of you soon!

🚨BREAKING: England's largest lake, Windermere, is covered in FAECAL BACTERIA according to a new study. Water companies have turned our most ICONIC lake into an open sewer while profiting BILLIONS. Who else thinks this is SICK?

"The Dramatic 17th C Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story ... While the more famous diaries of Samuel Pepys, who lived in London in the same century, provide a southern man’s experience, Thornton’s provide a northern woman’s" www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Today is the perfect Bank Holiday Sunday to lose yourself in poetry and Geraldine Clarkson writes the stuff damn well.

🧵 Polari latest | Controversial Irish author, & anti-trans activist, claims there is ‘no such thing as LGBTQ+ & that there are just individuals. This is historically & factually incorrect. It leans into the false conspiracy that you can separate trans ppl from the rest of the Queer community [1]

Can't make it to Rothbury for some rural retail therapy? Then you are cordially invited to have a virtual trip to Northumberland, by scrolling- if not strolling- through my website. Coast, Castles and Countryside beckon.... crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com

Human cost of right-wing UK coup. 300,000 a year die in England awaiting hospital appointment. 48,000 excess deaths a year in England & Scotland due to austerity. 128,000, including 110,000 pensioners, a year die in fuel poverty. 16m, including 5.2m children, live in poverty. Coup still ongoing

Several delegates express dismay at the failure to break a deadlock at the sixth round of talks in under three years.

Sources close to Khan believe there are clear parallels between the tactics being used by the Tories and Reform and Donald Trump’s attacks on Democrat-run cities in America www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says

The footage of the aftermath of the assassination of these brave journalists is too graphic to share here. But the intention of Israel is clear - kill the few, last surviving reporters and secure a blackout for what comes next. The completion of the genocide.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide. #MarchForHumanity (🎥 Ema Franklin)

Awdah Hathaleen, a well-known Palestinian activist whose work was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank, according to witnesses.

Finally! 🙌

The grim milestone reaches as Israel continues to target aid seekers amid famine conditions in Gaza.

the bbc will say it is because farage represents a significant portion of the public’s views. and they ought to know, they helped foster them

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

The thing about all these fucking statements now from world leaders calling for the food to be let in to Gaza: you have the ability to impose sanctions on Israel and every second you spend talking instead of imposing them is a collaborationist lie.

Finally finished the edits! 1066 here we come. #writinglife

In advance of this event I am very pleased to announce that we are once more able to offer both full time and part time routes of study on our MA for September 2025: www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/course... Come along to this evening talk on Wed 28th May to find out more 📚🍃

“As the people of Gaza now prepare for the worst, being right has never felt so bitter. But it took no special insight or powers of prophecy, for here was a catastrophe foretold from the start”

The Mothers,1922 woodcut by Käthe Kollwitz, the artist is known for her anti war stance, which drew on her own experience of love and loss #WomensArt

"My son, Reese, is studying Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine... But today’s America is not a safe place for someone like him, a future scientist who happens to be trans, autistic, and gay." 💔

Where are the Epstein files?

Video footage shows firing and explosions as Israeli forces attack the occupied West Bank's Dura city, storming homes and arresting several Palestinians according to local media.

Calling river-lovers: your river needs you! The Big River Watch runs until 1 May. Spend 15 mins by your local river, record what you see in the free BRW app––& help create a clearer picture of UK river health. I'm taking part. More here. @theriverstrust.bsky.social theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

Norman Nicholson crops up everywhere! #poetry

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"A house full of largely retired MPs put out to grass for 30 or 40 years or people like me who inherited it because their grandfather was cabinet secretary? That's no way to put together a second chamber." Tears for peers: Hereditary Lords face up to extinction