"Organisations including Samaritans, Mind, Centre for Mental Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have written to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, to express their “deep concern” about guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Delighted to have the wonderful @profaliceroberts.bsky.social back at #NineLessons this year. She'll be on stage for the Dec 19th show at Kings Place. Tickets here - www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin... CC @robinince.bsky.social

We are deeply saddened to hear that Girlguiding will no longer be accepting trans girls. Donate today to support our work creating spaces of safety, joy and community for trans young people: https://ow.ly/rhie50XBq2A

Please buy our album this #bandcampfriday - Rachel is a brilliant musician and we are working on more #music #poetry

Zack Polanski nails the necessity of immigration for the UK #bbcqt www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

My fortnightly #screenwriting newsletter. Sort of about cricket but also sort of about writing script-consultant.co.uk/that-chris-m...

@josienneclarke.com has a gorgeous album out now josienneclarke.bandcamp.com/album/far-fr...

Great new album #Burmo by Adam Walton here adamwalton.bandcamp.com/album/burmo-...

Annie Gardiner has a great new album coming out in Feb - pre order now crystalfuzzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/annie-...

Bandcamp Friday - a great day to support musicians! Here’s the album of music and poems I made with @robinince.bsky.social earlier this year - and some more links to my music and other brilliant artists to check out in the posts below normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com/album/weirdl...

This Ursula K Le Guin event is happening TONIGHT 7pm @burleyfisher.bsky.social - just a few tickets left, so get yours and join us if you love her too! And what questions would you want me to ask her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin? burleyfisherbooks.com/products/urs...

With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives

I went at full pace on Sunday Morning Live this morning to try to fit in as much as possible - having just landed back from Toronto - I am now off to bed - I am on about 45 minutes in - after some nuns before some monks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Farewell to a modern great Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

Cruelty #Gaza

Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today’s big news - I’ve been studying a Creative Writing MA (part time) at Swansea University over the last 2 years- really thrilled to have received my results today - graduating with Distinction! Yay!!

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life? Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places. I would love to see you there!

Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

From the worldwide premiere of my documentary to performing for the London Jazz Festival in under a week! I can’t wait to be back at the Royal Festival Hall this Saturday 15th of November. Final tickets available at the link in my bio - be there… or be an oblong! 😉

On a personal note, I’m selling my beloved electric guitar as it’s less suited for our stage show than the studio and I’ll be on primary live axe duties going forward. This guitar’s appeared on most of the Fold catalogue. Here’s the listing if you’re interested: reverb.com/item/9165357...

I'm doing the November #musicchallenge for #DavidsMonthOfMusic 9. Music in Twelve Parts by Philip Glass Link - The cover of "Horses" by Patti Smith is by the amazing Robert Mapplethorpe. He also took the photo on this cover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCIQ...

I'm doing the November #musicchallenge for #DavidsMonthOfMusic 8. Birdland by Patti Smith Link - Vangelis' "Heaven and Hell" album was released this week, 50 years ago. As was "Horses" by Patti Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO7...

DOCUMENTARY UK PREMIERE ‘HOW TANITA TIKARAM BECAME A LIAR’ SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER BFI, SOUTHBANK 6-7.30PM Tickets: www.docnrollfestival.com/films/how-ta...

Sorry to say we've made the difficult decision to cancel the Nine Lessons show in Cardiff. There was sadly a large disconnect between the number of people asking us to come to Cardiff & the number of people who actually got a ticket. Full steam ahead for London! www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

Congrats from the UK, Zohran! We’re all cheering you on! 🙌🇺🇸

Powerful questioning from my colleague @elliechowns.bsky.social, pinning the government on exactly what it needs to do - NOW - to bring about an end to the atrocities being committed in Sudan.

Decision Desk has called the NYC mayors race for Zohran Mamdani.

#Berlin tonight with my amazing band 🙌🏼☀️🎶 Very excited 🙌🏼☀️🎶 See you there ❤️🎶 #LiveMusic #singersongwriter #Germany 🇩🇪 www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kal...

So delighted to have a poem, 'Sundew Rescue', in the beautiful new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social, themed around Nature's Voice and sensitively edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz. #poetry #ecopoetry

🎙️ Drafted in at the last minute for the most-excellent @flimsin.bsky.social, I hope I did a decent job in conversation with @helenczerski.bsky.social and @davidho.bsky.social at this summer’s @latitudefestival.bsky.social, courtesy of @cosmicshambles.com and @trunkmanuk.bsky.social 🫡

Quatermass! The rocket guy! Pew! Excellent, influential movie free on YouTube TONIGHT followed by Nigel Kneale documentary we made with @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @drtauk.bsky.social @tommygorilla.bsky.social @eklectics.bsky.social

“focused, in command, full of conviction, composed, confident and comfortable with who she is, making some of the best music of an already quite distinguished career.” @klofmag.com reviews ‘Far From Nowhere’ & they like it! klofmag.com/2025/10/josi...

Calling all folks in Cardiff and beyond - I’m excited to be joining the many brilliant folks taking part in this @cosmicshambles.com and @robinince.bsky.social brilliant show - comedy, science, music and all profits going to charity - will be great! www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...

Doing a gig in Colchester for The Samaritans www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2556110...

'Tall shadows'' by Sarah Ross Thompson, contemporary UK #printmaker #womensart

Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

#TheLittleUnsaid released a video for 'Surfacing' from their new album 'Stay Fragile All Across This Cold `Frontier' to celebrate their recent tour. Interviews: With me www.mixcloud.com/JohnReedBrea... With @baruchzed.bsky.social paradigms.life/2025/john-pa... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsEN...

“Islamophobia is rife in our society and I say this as a Jewish man.” Rising star and new leader of the UK’s Green Party Zack Polanski joined @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to discuss the dangerous anti-Islam rhetoric in UK politics. zeteo.com/p/it-makes-m...

The rings of Saturn. And a tiny bright light in the distance... Venus.

A poem about when you are small and each moment is everything #poem Book available here cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/ice...