I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Do you rely on others for support? From the new Private Eye, out now.

If you're looking for books in translation to read... check out Josh Cook's selects! He'll send you three paperbacks in translation, ranging in genre, and press. A great gift for the holidays or for anyone looking to switch up what they normally read.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

I have a weekly "how much we need to make to pay expenses" goal... we have not reached it a single week since August... Anyway if you buy a book through our affiliate @bookshop_org you get a cookie 😉 and we get 30% of each sale! Some of my faves I've read this year: bookshop.org/lists/best-b...

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Here’s a new children’s picture book from @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social in my translation, the third in a series by Tina Oziewicz and Aleksandra Zając, ideal for prompting conversations about emotions as well as for pure entertainment. pushkinpress.com/book/what-fe...

Looking for highly giftable books? I made you a list on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. uk.bookshop.org/lists/highly...

What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop? If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around! #SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop alt text please

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

One of my favourite pieces by Rachel Cooke. #RIP On the subtle art of translating fiction, in which stylish prose trumps linguistic accuracy when comparing two different translations of Françoise Sagan’s novella, BONJOUR TRISTESSE. She was right of course. 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2016/j...

Analysis | Yes, Democrats won last Tuesday's elections by double digits. However, they did not win them by triple digits. The time had come to cave to Trump.

With courage and decisiveness, there's an opportunity for the government to flip the BBC crisis on its head and turn it into an opportunity, bringing the country together via a siege mentality against external forces. Problem is that courage and decisiveness aren't the government's main traits.

The party exists to fundraise off sustained mediocrity. Nothing else.

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

Bookstores, not Amazon. Proud of my US colleagues.

"...if you chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt... people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones."

spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens

I cannot believe the Dems have caved. Except of course that I totally can.

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

Liberal parties really need to stop saying stuff like this about standard new deal stuff. “An economy that works for the middle and lower class? What’s next!? UNICORNS!?!?”

Love how the centrist playbook around the world is to tell voters "things cannot get better, there is no hope." Real inspirational stuff.

i wonder if this strategy of patronising demoralised left wing voters is going to pay off.

The rich want you to believe that taxing the rich instead of the poor is a more complex problem than it actually is

The Green Party might be offering us simple solutions, to complex problems? They may well let us down? But at least they are offering us some hope, not wearing us down with bleak, faceless, authoritarian grind!

Imagine if the Labour govt taxed the rich properly — they could afford to do this! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

Hey board game folks, I need to contact some board game influencer types for a listicle i'm doing about family board games (for The Guardian). i'll probably contact the usual suspects but if you know of someone from an underrepresented group, pls give a shout! would love more diverse voices!

"we have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price. too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party, and too many among us have turned to the right for answers for why they've been left behind" it's just fire emojis all the way down

If Zohran isn’t giving a keynote at the next DNC, fire everybody.

Big day for people who care about other people

It’s *so good* to see to hopeful news from America, having become used to waking up to new horrors every morning. Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism. The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

I hope so. I hope the UK "left" is taking notice.

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

They climbed higher, and they heard a loud noise. Many large stones were rolling down the mountain.

I had nothing to do with this campaign and yet I feel like I won, haha. because I think they were right! newrepublic.com/article/1972...

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Waking up to good US political news is such a novelty. Hooray.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Seriously could this Labour govt be any more inept?

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Reform UK now having to take down flags so that Christmas doesn't get cancelled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.