He wouldn't know London if it "slapped him across the face with a wet kipper."

I would like to see churches speaking out about this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In an interview with the FT, Eric Trump played down the financial benefits to the family from its crypto interests and defended the launch of the $MELANIA and $TRUMP memecoins earlier this year as a bit of 'fun' on.ft.com/46JWYbK

This is a niche Catholic thing but is anyone here involved with a Parish that’s used Bishop Robert Barron’s ‘Catholicism’ course? I’m alarmed at some of this man’s recent comments/social media posts and curious about how influential he is in the UK.

Ireland will not take part in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if participation of Israel goes ahead, RTÉ Director-General says

WHERE is the sodding moon???

It's a wrap! Yesterday I submitted my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA in Writing Poetry final portfolio. An amazing 2 years, including launching my collection Crippled at the Summer School. Did I mention I've a book out? Copies here: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me for a signed one.

Just wait until the BBC, Sky, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun, and GBeebies get hold of this story of obvious and deliberate tax avoidance! JUST WAIT! <waits> <waits some more> <does today's sudoku> www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine if any Tory or Reform politician had EVER had this much scrutiny from the UK’s sh*tty press and news outlets

A group of journalists gathered at Lebanon's Martyrs’ Square in Beirut to express support for their Palestinian colleagues reporting in Gaza, holding the pictures of some of the 274 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since it began its war on the enclave.

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

On Israel reportedly uprooting Palestinian olive groves - aje.io/8y47ao - even the draconian Hebrew laws of war laid down in early biblical times forbade the wielding of the axe against them.

Brilliant radio version of Brian Friel’s play ‘Faith Healer’ #BrianFriel #RadioDrama #AudioDrama www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The letter condemns the “horrific” Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 But it goes on to say that the action of Hamas “does not absolve Israel’s government from assuming its share of the responsibility for the profound suffering of Gaza’s civilian population”.

Louis Marcus brings the Rabbis’ intervention to a wider audience through the @irishtimes.com

A few sweetpeas in a jar to see me through the weekend. Hope it’s a reasonably good one for you. (Image is a little washed out glass jar, originally containing mustard I think) and a few pinkish and mauvish sweetpeas spiralling out of it).

If life-saving humanitarian aid is not let into #Gaza, more children will die. “Political will can reverse this abomination,” says UNRWA Commissioner-General. UNRWA's role is critical in #famine prevention and response. #UNRWAworks and must be allowed to do so at full scale. #CeasefireNow

London friends, would you do me a huge favour and check if my zine Six Poems is available to read in the National Poetry Library next time you’re there? I haven’t been able to visit for a while.

“I did a FOUR!! I did a f**king FOUR in MATHS!!!” - overexcited teenager walking past my house just now. Well done, love. #gcseresultsday

Thank you to the people interviewed on radio who said they have never been troubled by asylum hotels in their neighbourhood and they hope the people housed there are ok.

If any legal firm wants to set up a fundraiser to sue Robinson for libel on behalf of Ayeni I will happily contribute. (Assuming he wants to sue).

Concerned locals. Ordinary mums and dads. Just members of.. checks notes... Combat 18. standuptoracism.org.uk/robert-jenri...

ICYMI: Comma Press and Out-Spoken Press have spoken out about two Gazan writers who are currently unable to take up full-scholarship awards at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London due to government red tape 👇 #BookSky

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

A rather moving interview in last week's Radio Times with the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

A great post about ‘Sea-Fever’ by John Masefield. This poem was also a favourite with the read aloud groups I used to facilitate, for people living with dementia and memory loss, when I worked for The Reader Organisation 🌊

How brave and compassionate of the King family to speak out about this. Love and respect to them.

Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.

“If Israel can wipe out an entire news crew without the international community so much as batting an eye, what will stop further attacks on reporters,” @jodieginsberg.bsky.social said in an op-ed for @theguardian.com. Read more⤵️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence” —Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Our local partners in Gaza face serious challenges and risks in doing their work. Healthcare projects are continuing and Caritas Jerusalem were able to acquire more medicine despite restrictions on aid. Learn more about the impact of your support. ⤵️ cafod.org.uk/news/emergen...

Please sign/share if you can. The talented @outspokenpress.bsky.social poet Haia Mohammed is one of those blocked from taking up her scholarship at Goldsmiths University, London, because of this ruling

Global protests target Israel and media outlets who have ‘made excuses’ after killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has pulled investments from 11 Israeli companies, citing concerns over Israel’s ongoing war and blockade in Gaza. The fund, the largest in the world, had previously held stakes in 61 Israeli firms.

“That attack took out Al Jazeera’s entire Gaza City news crew. … It was a direct hit on a journalist tent. Journalists are civilians, and to kill them in war is a war crime,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Watch here⤵️ news.sky.com/video/commit... #NotATarget

“This is part of a pattern that we’ve long seen from Israel ... in which it kills journalists, it then subsequently alleges without providing any credible evidence that they are terrorist operatives,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told ABC Australia. Watch⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6w0...

Just in case you haven’t signed this yet and still want to: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/le...

Just horrific and enraging www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

Israel, which does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza…has killed 237 journalists since the war started, according to Gaza’s government media office. The Committee to Protect Journalists said at least 186 journalists have been killed in the Gaza conflict. apple.news/At7CSM72NQWe...

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Alice Oswald arrested for standing up for Palestinian rights

When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for SUPPORTing PALESTINE ACTION

Just to add: Backlisted is good, and please don't confuse it and Unbound.

Here’s an essay from eco-sonneteer, #JemmaBorg, which argues: ‘Poetry can get past all the kinds of barriers we set up within and between ourselves and between us and what we’ve historically called nature – that which we are embedded in.’ poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/what-do-we-m... #EcoSonnetChain