I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to let Virgin Active know they're following transphobes, not the law. You can do it too here: goodlaw.social/638d25

Students in Gaza, against all odds, have secured places to study at 31 of the UK’s top universities. British Govt is now obstructing them because it will not adapt visa requirements for present circumstances. Join international lawyers' call for change: www.change.org/p/evacuate-g...

Hello folks! Still time to book for Legends in the Land - #online course on British history through myths, legends and #folklore. Six sessions, no expertise needed! Starts Tues 16/9 - still time to book! eventbrite.com/e/legends-in... Come and play where stories and history overlap.

Hello! News! I have a Patreon page - if you want regular videos sharing #folklore, #myth and research on both, please do sign up! Plus downloads, WIP news and more: www.patreon.com/posts/welcom... Seeya there!

Our ‘protected’ chalk reef is set to have sediment dumped on it for another 10 years – so we’re seeking a judicial review. It’s a fight not only for the Sussex coast, but for of all 91 Marine Conservation Zones around the English coast. buff.ly/GEfcxEz #StopDumpingOnOurReef

🚨First Past the Post is broken - and even though the government has scrapped it for Mayors, it might be used to elect Sussex's new Mayor in 2026. Tell your MP you want the first Sussex Mayor to be elected through a fair system, NOT FPTP: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Some worrying stuff about what #Meta will allow on their chatbots - linked Reuters article says the stuff on #race is unresolved. action.eko.org/a/tell-the-e...

New online course! Legends in the Land: British History Through #Myth & #Folklore - join me to explore what legends can tell us about lives and beliefs from #prehistory to #medieval Britain and beyond. Six 1hr sessions, no experience needed! Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legends-in...

Really good reminder that people power works and good changes can be made: tinyurl.com/yk837w9n @cbffjuk.bsky.social

ONLINE GIG TONIGHT!!! Last-minute announcement: I will be joining my wonderful friends Pog for a live-streamed music-and-storytelling mix to raise money for the Josh Evans Trust Fund, supporting children with diabetes. Beaming out at 6:30pm from here: www.facebook.com/pogbrighton - join us there!

Fantastic music SO CLOSE to being fully backed! 17hrs and only £60 to go - gaahn, chip in, you'll get a cracking album of heartfelt melodic folk-punk: www.kickstarter.com/projects/chu...

Should you like heartfelt, high-energy, probing acoustic folk-punk: I just backed Chuck SJ - Adrift and Amplified on @kickstarter.com, and I recommend you do too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chu...

Outsourced Mitie workers at Sellafield are fighting for fair pay, while their CEO earns £14.7 million - 575 times the average worker's salary! Sign the worker's petition @GMBNWI megaphone.org.uk/petitions/su... via @megaphoneuk

Another practical way we can help - please sign! secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Welcome bit of good news: improvements to employee rights in zero-contract jobs and more. Let's sign to encourage the Lords to pass it in full! Please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

@sianberry.bsky.social Please do support the assisted dying bill - it is indeed all about compassion and dignity.

I always love how quaint the old horror masters were. Cushing painting miniatures, Price doing cooking shows, Lee murdering nazis in covert operations during WWII

Support Marseille dockworkers blocking a shipment of arms to the Israeli govt: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

This coming Sunday! #Storytelling for hope, inspiration and Making a Difference in these gloomy times: fb.me/e/6oQn2YN5R. Proceeds to @doctorswithoutborders.org. OODLES of amazing tellers: @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social , Carl Gough, Cath Edwards, @davetonge.bsky.social, Rosalind Buck and me!

Gig news! Stories to Bring Light in the Darkness, #online 8/6: fb.me/e/6oQn2YN5R A HORDE of storytellers gathered by @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social to raise money for @msf.org. #Storytelling and a good cause! Join us there!

Hello! #Folklore news: I am giving a paper on WATER HORSES at Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2025 14/6 - join me! It's FREE and ONLINE: www.eventbrite.com/e/imaginativ... This annual event is always wonderful, come hear loads of researchers share work. @CanterburyCCUni @UniofExeter

I know this is always controversial, but it's humanitarian more than ideological: 2 months with no aid. 50,000+ civilians killed. Why is @Eurovision still giving Israel a global stage? Sign and share to #BanIsraelFromEurovision until this war ends: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

The Chronoscope awaits! Help me find all the lost pieces, before nefarious villains doom our past, present and future... in The Brighton Time Travel Adventure!! Sun 4th May 11:00, #spiegelgardens - book now: www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-b... #family #storytelling Brighton Fringe

Nearly there! Time to SAVE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE! The BRIGHTON TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE: interactive #storytelling for all the family. #brightonfringe 3/4 May 11am - all hands needed to save EVERYWHEN! www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-b...

I love this! Whatever we might think, 89% of global population actually agree we need action on #climatechange! We are not alone - and talking about it makes a difference: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to me on BBC Radio 3's The Essay! Composer Erland Cooper is presenting a series on Mythic Mountains - and I was invited to talk about the medieval legends of Mount Killaraus in Ireland, from which Merlin transported the Giants' Dance - Stonehenge - to Britain...! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Trailer launched for THE BRIGHTON TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE! youtube.com/shorts/lWH3M... Come save the City, in an interactive #storytelling race through Brighton's past, present AND future! 3/4 May, Spiegel Gardens, #brightonfringe. All help needed! www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-b...

Totally agree it's important to read the FULL Supreme Court ruling. But nonetheless, imagine if the law protected the right to see gays as "not natural"? Ergo: please call for Parliamentary discussion of implications for Equality Act: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Keeping the future open: www.change.org/p/overturn-t... #transrightsarehumanrights

THE BRIGHTON TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE! #SpiegelGardens, #BrightonFringe2025, 3&4 May: all needed to SAVE THE FUTURE! Book now: shorturl.at/ZGlCl

New song by @evangreer.bsky.social and @ryancassata.bsky.social to mark #transdayofvisibility! Have a look at the video, for an invigorating blast: youtu.be/J2QKqy2y27U?... - and check out all the support organisations listed in the info.

📣 CALL YOUR SENATORS at 202-688-0628 📣 In his latest move to dismantle our government, Trump defied long-standing Supreme Court precedent by illegally firing Democratic Federal Trade Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Need a script? We got you! ➡️

🚜 On 11 March, the Government announced a pause in nature-friendly farming payments—the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... 👇 Here's why that’s disastrous for climate and nature. 🧵

Well last night was FANTASTIC!!! We gathered, we rocked, we found the Promised Land! Thanks so much again to #Ropetacklestorytellers (and Saif and Ian for the pics!) - WATCH ONLINE TONIGHT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promised-l... #storytelling #rocknroll

Hi all! Here's a taster of PROMISED LAND: THE MYTHS OF ROCK'N'ROLL, coming up 10th Mar at the Ropetackle Arts Centre: youtu.be/BS9obDY-h5g Are you coming? You could, you know! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/promi... AND you can watch it ALL online on 11th Mar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promised-l...

The point of making drawings is that it takes time. Time to think about and be with an experience, or a thought, or a feeling. Time to reflect on being human. A drawing records that time spent. Making drawings isn’t product making. A drawing is the record of a human being. Fuck AI.

HE'S BACK...! Rock legends retold as world myths: PROMISED LAND, 10th Mar @Ropetackle Storytellers - join us for a #storytelling and live band spectacular! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/promi... ... OR watch online 11th Mar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/promised-l... Celebrate the myths of our times!

V nice mention of our upcoming #PromisedLand show at Ropetackle Storytellers! AND of my recent work on #You'reDeadToMe with @gregjenner.bsky.social et al. Thanks v much to Alex Fitch of the Comics and Graphic Narratives REG at @uniofbrighton.bsky.social! blogs.brighton.ac.uk/comics/2025/...

IT'S BACK...! Promised Land: The Myths of Rock'n'Roll, Mon 10th Mar at @Ropetackle Storytellers - AND streamed online Tues 11th Mar! Rock legends retold as world myths ! www.facebook.com/events/95690... in person, www.facebook.com/events/20115... online - #storytelling for now and all time!

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

This is a BIG ONE!! New #youredeadtome on Legends of King Arthur - and I got to co-research and co-script!!! LIFE MILESTONE REACHED!! Have a good listen to @gregjenner.bsky.social , Mike Wozniak and Dr Mary Bateman, as I bask in the moment... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is the sort of stuff we're appalled that the white authorities did in North America and Australia. It's astonishing to think China are doing it now in Tibet. Petition is to get a UN investigation, shining international light on what's happening. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

FREE #storytelling and #crafting for families this Saturday afternoon if you're up for it! Folklore and fun to celebrate Brigid and the coming of Spring, from 3pm at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven. Do join us if you're free! guesthousestorytellers.com

Here's a bit of hope. Per capita carbon emission in the UK, now back down to 1859 levels. Work to do, but progress made.

Gig news! Sat 1 Feb I will be joining Xanthe Gresham-Knight and Jamie Crawford for #storytelling to celebrate Brigid and the coming Spring! Join us to light the last of winter: FREE family afternoon, & a fantastic show from Xanthe and Kate Corkery in the evening. guesthousestorytellers.com

#transrightsarehumanrights🌈 V sad to hear Trump's executive order decreeing that there are only two genders in the US, those assigned at birth. Hermaphroditus below reminds us that other times, cultures and places have accepted the evidence of experience - even celebrated it.

I've done an interview about my PhD research for the @crecganford.bsky.social YouTube channel! The nature of #storytelling in human life and modern landscapes - watch it here: youtu.be/2Aqv-Dv9gAw?... for great fun musing on #myth, politics and popular culture.

A new episode of #You'reDeadToMe is out on BBC Sounds, for which I did the research notes! Can't WAIT to listen - Cariad Lloyd and Dr Isabella Rosner will be so great together on this one.