...listen to @carolinebirduk.bsky.social's documentary through BBC Sounds (or in the Falling Tree archive) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory. Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.

Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎 Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion). Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR

✊ We are hiring! The HOPE not hate team is growing and we’re looking to recruit for the following roles: • Investigative Journalist (Europe) • Community Tensions Researcher Find out more and apply here: hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...

“The plot is sublime, spiralling out into the city’s nooks and crannies, intricate, but always firmly anchored by Lawrence’s soulful characters.” @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers. www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

#DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get the next big book before it hits bookshops. This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚 Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4

Honestly, I think I could do a better job running Downing St communications and the BBC as a job share. Am available.

Distant shores of the River Ore, Suffolk, seen from the Maybush Inn, Waldringfield.

Hurrah! The book is beautiful work of art. Looking forward to seeing the calendar.

This will be interesting. Tonight, 6.30pm. On Hopper's drawings. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-hop...

massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year

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An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

We might also wonder why the BBC entrusts episodes of its leading current affairs strand to outside producers. But that takes us back to Conservative govmt demands, under the guise of market liberalisation, that they shift spending to independents. The slow death of the BBC was planned long ago… 3/3

One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But… 1/3

An intelligent, interesting piece raising a number of interesting points about fibre arts in general and local traditions in particular 🧶 LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...

Signed. c.org/7MK4MwbTHv

Each drawing takes about ~50 minutos to draw.

So I chaired a panel at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair yesterday, about #WeirdPride and unruliness, with two fantastic queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary writers and activists: @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social. I loved hearing their thoughts on this. www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

Time correction! This is now coming up on the listings as being on at 9pm, not 10pm as in original publicity.

Ah, @nicolawriting.bsky.social , such a delightful read. Beautifully written, and the exhausting research was well worth the effort. How wonderful to have such a story on your doorstep and be able to bring it, and the lovely characters, to life and make us think about how much we have lost. Bravo!

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't. 6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%. Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. No govt checks profiteering.

2m UK pensioners live in poverty, 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension. Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending. Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Behold ‘Cyclone: Faster Than Ever’ graphite pencil on paper. I broke out my 12B pencils for this beast. Bit tired now… #drawing

🎫 Have you got your ticket yet? 🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery this coming Thursday to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! 🧵 ⬇️

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

Brilliant first episode thanks. Intelligent, informative television, which is getting scarce these days.

And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.

Isabella Tree's TED talk is out! 🗣️🍃 We may think of rewilding as something huge - restoring nature and wildlife in vast landscapes - but anyone who has a garden, backyard or window box can do it. Isabella tells us how. Watch the talk ⬇️ www.ted.com/talks/isabel...

On Sunday at 10pm, Sky Arts are showing the fabulous film about women war artists. It's really worth watching. tveveryday.com/war-paint-wo...

Finally, finally, I am getting round to reading this. Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social (Well, y'know, a pile of good books to read is a wonderful thing and I've had a few). I am engrossed from the start. What a terrific book, what writing. This is going to be so interesting.

I’m a printmaker/draughtsperson. I am inspired by structures - haunting remnants of industry, echoes of warfare, or architectural oddities that exist on the fringes of functionality, and often on the fringes of collective memory. I love to draw, whether it’s on paper, canvas or print plates. #art

Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation

I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in

Here are my #Autumn leaves #Crayon and deep looking not worried about detail such as serrated edges or veins just getting the mood and colour

Tonight (thurs)

When you lay charcoal and pastel drawings outside to fix them and then it starts raining. The rain stops once you've rushed them inside. (Am properly fixing them now as I found the soya based fixative isn't up to the job.)

We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/. Only a few tickets left.

Here is my exploration in #Autumn colour This leaf is from a Prunus #tree Fatigue post Covid and Transplant - I can’t always spend long on creating art but I’ve found a way to create by just looking and noting down what I see The result is often simple abstract Very exciting to to Catch Colour

Turnout in the NYC mayoral election is the highest since 1993.