Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)

My comrade Imran Yusef took this photo last night capturing my dignity and poise in his composition.

Schulz: The first time we said something about them discarding the Epstein stuff, the White House gave a statement like, 'Oh, Andrew Schulz, blah blah blah.' I should have known right there that they were covering it up. To even respond to me, that means that they're in immediate 'oh shit' mode.

Oh, hey, got 10k followers without seeing it today. Hello! I write books and stuff. Got a new YA coming out in April (and a MG in September and an adult novel next February and I am tired). I support Japanese food, Buffy rewatches and trans rights. I don't support golf.

A new discovery from the University of Edinburgh could lead to breakthroughs in treating multiple sclerosis (MS) FULL DETAILS: www.heraldscotland.com/news...

Good morning, Rembrandt

Not now, Friday 13th. We’ve got a massive agenda of totally rational things to be paranoid about.

📝 Writers aged 60+ — win £500! The Never Too Late Award is open to entries in flash fiction, poetry, novel, or short story. Just tick the box when you submit. Details: bridportprize.org.uk/news/new-never-too-late-60-award/ Deadline: 31 May 2026. #NeverTooLate #WritingOpportunities

Kinder Küche Kirche From the guy whose boss also wants to return the two-child benefit cap to pay for a 5p discount on a pint.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Attorney General Pam Bondi tells a member of a co-equal branch of government during a public hearing: “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer.” The disdain for our own government is appalling. This administration is destroying our democracy.

setting up a helpline for people in the UK

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Thrilled to announce my next play PROPHETS which we plan to debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026. Sadly it's really expensive to do the Fringe and we are a group of independent artists so we're launching a Crowdfunder to help get us there. Please share widely if you can support please do.

PROPHETS is about Kerris, a researcher from Scotland who travels to a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific Ocean. Upon arrival, she finds the colonial outpost in the thrall of a growing religious cult. It's an intimate pychological drama about faith and the limits of justice.

I should also say that we are partnered with @creativescots.bsky.social Crowdmatch! Meaning that every donation will be matched by them! For example - if you give us £20 it will become £40 so even small amounts will add up. Thanks a million to everyone who has shared and donated so far!

Jack is a writer of real political scope and ambition, who sees the human within big geopolitical narratives - a global outlook that is a shot in the arm to the at times parochial tendencies of our theatre, a vital part of the future (and present moment!) of Scottish new writing. Please support!

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Peters to ICE/CBP officials: "How can you expect any US citizen to follow orders from an unidentified, masked man surrounding them, given we know there are these impersonators out there who according to the FBI are committing a lot of crime?"

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

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I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

A failure of morals, character, and justice.

Russia is not winning this war. Its casualty rates are surging, and its economy is struggling. Today, Ministers will discuss how we can further support Ukraine. On the table are proposals to establish two training facilities inside Ukraine and to mobilise additional private capital.

This is really disgraceful.

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

Philippe Gaulier, Clown to the Stars, Dies at 82 https://www.europesays.com/ie/330875/ Photo: Philip Wayne Lock/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Philippe Gaulier, the founder of the literal clown academy École…

By the time I took a series of master classes with Philippe Gaulier, he was already the grand old man, and visibly playing that as a role. He still taught me more about myself as a performer than anyone. I wish I had met him earlier. Dionysos rest him; he changed theatre radically.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Genuinely could not be more delighted to have Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody (illustrated by the awesome Tim Miller) on the Carnegie Longlist. I absolutely love these little weirdos, and I love writing middle grade. What a fantastic surprise. Go read the other titles on the long list too!

”The actor must stay present when coherence breaks, without trying to resolve what cannot be resolved. When the state tries to erase a man…, Antigone responds with a small, repeated act…This is witness work: returning, again & again to honour what remains.” www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/what...

TW: Sepsis death. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hope Mill Theatre bosses have called for ongoing support of fringe theatres in challenging times, warning that venues such as theirs can often get missed out of conversations. Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/news/hope-mi... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #FringeTheatre #TheArts"

Bishop Swan had something to say.

Watch in its entirety - brilliant show, cast of thousands, a real wedding on stage and it pissed off Trump... www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

We are alarmed to learn that the poet Ali Asadollahi, who featured in recent editions of MPT, has been violently arrested from his home by security forces in Iran. Please join his supporters in raising awareness. www.en-hrana.org/ali-asadolla...

Immigrants have been the scapegoats for far too long. We're marching on 28 March to say: "We're sick of the blame game." @unison.org.uk

Before you say it I know I've written the card upside down.