Anyway join.greenparty.org.uk

I for one am quite glad my family was not told to go back to Bialystok or Kyiv when they were "safe" in 1922.

I guess that's a no

I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.

'Prof Nicola Ranger, the union’s general secretary, said: “A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.' 1/2

I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.

Going to Nairobi next week. Very much not there for fun, but if anyone has any good advice or knows nice places to eat / relax (I'm staying in Westlands) I'm open to recommendations

wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*

Seen that video of a hundred-year-old veteran weeping over his lost country and being comforted by the 'D-Day Darlings' in a poppy-bedecked morning TV studio? Assailed by a profound sense of unease? Of distaste? Of dread, even? Allow me to make it worse: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

someone described my cat as "unsexy" the other day and I'm still fucking furious tbqhwy

The lads at @neheritagelib.bsky.social do excellent work and I'm very chuffed to be representing @nenature.bsky.social in this year's NE History Compendium

Correct your maps: Newcastle is Mitteleuropa LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 happened and it was great keep yr eyes peeled for LORT BURN SPECIALS: 4

"You need not wipe your knife to cut bread for the table, because in cutting a slice or two it will wipe itself." Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants.

I'm leaving my day job soon, but one of the cool things about it has been helping midwife stuff like this excellent blog on the Hancock Museum condor, a bird kidnapped from Chile in the 1880s who spent the rest of her life being gawped at by Geordies and glumly trying to bite children's fingers off

Best wishes to Christian in seeking treatment for his *checks diagnostic manual* racism

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

oh no

back in 2016 I was at some event and got introduced to Goodwin; he found out I worked for the Londoner's Diary and proceeded to follow me round the room like a puppy for the rest of the night, throwing quips in my direction in the hope of being quoted in the paper the next day

As many of you know, I collect Haitian art. The most famous painting in my collection is Frantz Zephirin’s *The Slave Ship Brooks*, which has been exhibited around the world, including the 2022 Venice Biennale. Here are photos of the painting and of Frantz when he had just completed it.

This is today! If you show up to buy a ticket on the door, you will be asked to buy one online. Skip that step and buy one before you leave the house. 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/venu...

I've been covering this story for the last three years and it's so frustrating how little people seem to care given the scale of what's happened at Teesworks. This report is superb, and lays it all out. It covers eight pages, but could easily cover more. I really recommend this.

In some canny good company in the GNM: Hancock library

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

“I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

2007: pretending a mobile phone and two roast potatoes from christmas dinner are a cock and balls, to hilarious effect

if you're not writing poetry about grief, embodiment, labour, traumatic healing, and the worlds we build within us and around us, what are you even playing at. why are you even writing poetry. idiot

Abolish the Home Office

Absolutely banging haul from @westwoodbooks.bsky.social in Sedbergh this weekend, go there immediately. This cost me just shy of forty quid! All of this sadly wasted on John Brown the cat, who understands neither the written word nor the concept of money

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Captain Birdseye and Mr Muscle at it like knives, with the Honey Monster looking on from the cuck chair

[as I tumble naked, battered and bruised down a bloody conveyor belt to be minced into chum to sate the infinite hunger of Gorek Vingoth, The Galaxy Chomper] we could have avoided this if it wasn't for the Left's ridiculous purity tests

What should I talk about at this, gang? Hullo birds, hullo sky? The history of eco-fascism? The joys of freelancing, har har har? The problems with nature writing (but bear in mind we've only got a couple of hours)? Coffee photography?

I cannot emphasise just how much, if you live in the North East, you should come to the next LORT BURN SPECIALS on Oct 18, if only to get hold of some of this epochal swag

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants. By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

One thing that really jars for me with the playing off of minorities against each other in this really transactional way (by the government and others) is remembering that my Cypriot grandfather learned bits and pieces of Bengali from working with Bangladeshi chefs in a Jewish restaurant.

his NAME was HENRY 😡

ALERT for Owen Hatherley / Peter Mitchell fans

ah ha ha ha, ah ha, lol

This is wild, wild and wrong, stop it

our @fossilfreebooks.org comrade @peter.polari.com has made these gorgeous risograph prints to raise money for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza. Only 50: get yours quick polari.press/shop/art-pri...

Today is the 89th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street so here's "Cable Street" by Albert Turpin from his post-war work, most likely to mid to late 1950s. This is actually a view of Grace's Alley, just off Cable Street. #AlbertTurpin #BattleofCableStreet #EastLondonGroup

what

Happy Cable Street Day to all who celebrate. Comes earlier every year these days doesn't it

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

it's all kicking off in stamford hill

The last time I went into a synagogue, I found out it had the Torah scroll rescued from what had once been my family's synagogue in Berlin, shortly before Kristallnacht. I was the first person in my family to see it in over 80 years.

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

driving down the M25 earlier I found I'd been singing, to the tune of 'Animal Shapes', "crocodile shoes, crocodile shoes, nothing better get in the way of my majuscule poos"

I'm in London. Might go to the pub