www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... << full list is here; I was one of the voters so you can see the ones no one else agreed with me on. So many Woolfs! Our current queen.

Just reminding you that this is still on for another week.

If you want a dose of absolute joy, get thee to Glasgow in the next week to catch The High Life. What a glorious, silly, sweet uplifting night it is. Pif Paf Pof!

Sharing this because I'm pretty sure someone I know will have been recently to the kind of event Marie is describing.

....will be the name of my freelance agency, if I ever get around to starting it

starting today, a new series of short films, inspired by the DRASS album, 'On The Hill' a new episode released every day at 13:23 for the next 11 days... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJK...

In the Uberpup studio, where much magic happens.

This week's Web Curios has landed: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-15...

The pre-trip ‘what book do I take for the train?’ dilemma is painful this time.

just read a poem and this was my spontaneous reaction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dn...

Who had Josh Simons down as Sydney Carton?

What you say after a *really* firm handshake.

Only 6 of us voted for Vanity Fair? Shocked shocked I tell you: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Has anyone actually calibrated how many Millibands equate to what level of chaos? Eg: 1 Milliband = loss of majority 5 Millibands = run on the pound

Partly self-interested as I have guest spoken at the University of Hertfordshire now and again, but it is a place of excellence in all forms of the humanities, and the threat to the departments is ridiculous. Do sign if you can: c.org/s8B55BPkdH

Wot no ‘Engels on the dancefloor’ pun? ;)

Werner Herzog’s Mary Poppins

I say this to Malachite when he’s refusing to come home from next door’s garden. It’s about as much use then too.

All true; amazing what you get at Waitrose. 19p that chocolate twist was.

If you find yourself near to, or can be available to be in Walton on Tames next Thursday—let's say 7ish, you could come and listen to both Alwyn Marriage and myself reading poems and being interviewed by @kmngriffiths.bsky.social I recommend both. www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/161015

Now humming 'Ban the pervert glasses' to the tune of 'Take The Skinheads Bowling'

Getting our new harana poetry website ready for our autumn relaunch 😉 Follow us at @haranapoetry.bsky.social for updates on the website and submissions! 🌸🌸🌸 #haranapoetry13 #poetry #esl #eslpoetry

Well played, well played.

crumbs! this is the best joke you'll munch today

Apparently May has decided to become November round our part of SW London.

I read stories like this and think: this is just a form of self-dealing isn't it? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Don't ordinarily link to work, but I quite enjoyed writing this piece about Jeff Bezos and the shameless plute class www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-to...

Wonderful juxtaposition from one of my newsletters this morning:

Sharing this again, as my spidey sense suggests more and more people are getting aware that LLMs are god / saviours etc: betarish.medium.com/hill-climbin...

One for the political historians: which other PMs bar Johnson have been removed despite having a mandate, because they’re not up to the job rather than say a specific event or policy failure?

I did the same, and no spoilers that neither The Golden Gate nor Wittgenstein’s Mistress made the final cut.

So this countdown is happening: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... << I was one of the voters, and you can see which of my choices people far more qualified than me disagreed with.

That feeling when you discover another copy on your shelves of the book you just bought on the weekend...

Chuffed to reveal the cover of like starlings falling 💙

Glasgow friends! I am coming up to see The High Life – I know! – this Friday night, travelling back Saturday afternoon. So if anyone is around for coffee or lunch on Saturday do let me know.

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Spare a thought for Amol Rajan, locked in the Highlands doing Celebrity Traitors while the government falls apart; maybe they want to get it done afore he gets back?

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God tier play would be for Kier to let the King’s Speech happen then say, “I’m off” from the dispatch box on Wednesday. #macedrop

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When the LLM historians come to *write* up these years, they shall call it ‘The Emergency Podcast Age’.

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