I think it is important to not say "Britain colonised Nigeria(or similar entity)", but rather "Nigeria is a creation of the British Empire." This feels like a small difference but I think it fundamentally changes how we respond to the challenges of history and the present.

Luxon is still not back at work?! What the actual fuck. Bro gets paid half a million dollars of taxpayer money EVERY YEAR.

About time Aotearoa New Zealand boycotted the 2026 Olympic games The President is purposely being violent and killing his own people. #boycottolympics

In Minneapolis

Ahh yes, when I am organising an arts event, I think to myself "you know who the board really needs? an airport manager!"

“I was a poor Chicano boy from El Paso,” Acosta said. “I made my name in toxicology at the University of Texas.”

This ICE shit is gonna be here one way or other if we don’t nip this shitshow in the butt this year.

Here, I reflect on my experiences of trying to get African food catered for university events that I have organised. I also explain why providing edible Jollof (or other international food) in UK HE is a vital decolonising matter in an educational setting. folukeafrica.com/decolonising...

Thinking about what it means that our elected representatives in Aotearoa are so close with those in the US who are complicit in the murder of their own citizens and what that means if our current elected representatives are elected for another term.

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Result! NZ’s Supreme Court says Luxon govt must consider climate change if offering oil and gas tenders… which in the #ClimateCrisis logically means no permits should be awarded. Wind and solar is clearly a better bet for energy security anyway. Embarrassing for Shane Jones.

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

sounds familiar aye aotearoa

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.

The Lonely Plane - a new poem by Peter Sipeli

The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.

I am delighted to have a couple of poems in this beautiful anthology. I got to hear many of these spoken aloud by the authors. And, to have something that also has Witi Ihimaera in it as well. books.apple.com/nz/book/ahi-...

Amazing! More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol ‪

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

My amazement continues: Waterstones has chosen Vanished as one of best books of the year. Especially pleased that history of science is being featured on these lists, and even more so as imperial history is even rarer on these lists. Hurrah! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Truly and utterly stunned. The Telegraph has chosen Vanished as one of the ‘greatest books of 2025’ and described it as a ‘rigorous, fascinating narrative.’ Verily, this is the most unexpected place for my roar to have reached. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground theconversation.com/cop30-govern...

Today is the J.D. Stout Annual Lecture and Toby Boraman is talking: ‘Knocking off: Strikes in Aotearoa New Zealand 1968–1986‘ It’s at 4pm, 14 November, at GBLT1 (Old Government Buildings) Pipitea Campus, Lambton Quay. #StoutLecture #nzUnions

Nearly half of NZ top 50 companies increased their climate pollution. Biggest increase from the biggest polluter - Fonterra businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

98% of us said an unequivocal no to the RSB, yet it has passed its 3rd reading today. This government do not serve Kiwis. They serve the lobbyists & overseas big businesses. F*** the lot of them! #nzpol

This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...

Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices. Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

So a decent human being who believes in decent human society one NYC Mayority over big money fascism who dont ever give a fuck about you YOU HEAR THAT NZ LABOUR?

what. the. hell. maybe help reduce the number of people who don't have a goddamn roof over their heads instead of hiding them away.

Yes! And (square old lady alert) Dave Dobbyn's "Maybe the Rain" "they're tattooing chromosomes From Bikini to the Marshall Islands Make your front yard a urinal during R&R"

🎶three eyes for my son A extra foot for my daughter youtu.be/4dBTLZqO2T0?...

"Let me be more specific Get out of the Pacific Quittez la Pacifique"

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

NZ English teachers: The rights to The Essential Shakespeare: Macbeth have reverted to me. I have updated with mātauranga Māori teaching & learning resources. Send me a message if you would like to know more. I attach a screenshot of some of the extra material as well as the contents page.

Ka rawe koe @taramcallister.bsky.social, this is epic www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Waitangi Tribunal says NZ citizenship law breaches Te Tiriti, ignoring Māori tangata whenua. Urges co-designed reform; government resists review; whānau face harm from descent limits.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.