Great interview with Russell Tovey - and really delighted to say welcome to @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yet another day wondering why no-one is really discussing that an anagram of his name is The Reptile 🐍

In memory of Alice Wong, the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. May she rest in power sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

As a Londoner (with familial roots back to the 19th century), I’m finding it *extremely* difficult not to take the co-ordinated right-wing defamation of my home VERY personally, so the other social media apps are now intolerable. London is not perfect, but it is a beacon of multicultural hope.

"Rallying the radical left" Move over Labour, you had your chance

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

They missed a trick not calling them Ouroboreos.

Love this from @zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack: No, no, the Emperor’s naked. Perfection 👌🏾

In his futile attempt to justify Musk's $1 trillion pay package, this Musk fluffer overlooks: -Musk's tax rate on his $450BN is only 2.5% so far. -Tesla & SpaceX received $3.7BN of US subsidies & loans. -SpaceX has $22BN in US govt contracts. -Tesla has received $22BN in US ZEV/GHG/IRA credits.

Local areas can lead the way on protecting nature, making lives better and securing a safe future for all of us - but they need government to stop starving them of funds. @carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.

SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you? ME: Well, sideways and down, haha SATAN: Haha ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is SATAN: Your most recent role was… ME: Cinema website designer SATAN: Sweet

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Of course, the right of London politics is coming for Poems on the Underground (a whopping £72k in TfL’s budget), these people lack the requisite souls in order to see the value in enriching those around them.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Everyday a little more Alan Moore dystopia than the last

Yes, cutting the speech that way makes it inaccurate, but let’s be clear. If you say, “And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," to a crowd of folks who have been riled up by rhetoric for an hour, and they end up fighting *anyone*, you have culpability.

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

"[name of someone famous and vaguely progressive with a snappy turn of phrase] should run for Director General of the BBC!" like that's how it works and like they won't shove in some absolute nazi who loves rich people and hates trans women and Palestinians just like before but even more this time.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

So: genial lives oppose villain egos. #palindrome

putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?

I'm not for policing words but I do think that if you don't do the writing, you're an AI promter not a writer as: 1) the writing isn't yours & more importantly 2) you're a scab

Modest proposal: in the same way that you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a feminist if you're racist / gc / right wing, you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a writer if you use commercial genAI for anything.

Would love for women to ruin billionaires next.

People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”. Take responsibility for what exactly? For being sick? For not getting better? For needing social supports? What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”

Tech bros reading a poem: "Fuck yeah, Ozymandias rules."

The 2026 @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition is open! > 128K young people took part last year. See how they did it in a preview of Poetry By Heart:The Movie bit.ly/PBHMoviePreview ⬇️ Great to see teachers Gareth & Alex featured, both part of our school projects! Sign up ➡️ poetrybyheart.org.uk

Musk is Nozick’s Utility Monster: Discuss

Every so often, I like to share this poem, about love #poetrycommunity

lol

Joey Barton’s lawyer questioning Lucy Ward about his posts likening her and Eni Aluko to Fred and Rose West. Just about the most perfect response I have heard in a very long time.

Tormenting online racists is a weird pastime, but honestly, increasingly I find that, in the year of our Lord 2025, there is still a Not Zero number of white folks who simply view any non-white person merely having another opinion, as wildly insubordinate, and I hate to disappoint.

Also, the Conservative Party line that “Labour have been in long enough to now stop blaming the previous government” is outrageously hypocritical considering they STILL reference the “No Money Left” from 2010 and the Three Day Week from the fkn 1970s

Also, the “No one alive today is responsible for slavery…” defence against reparations would have way more weight if a portion of MY TAXES (until 2015) hadn’t gone, via debt repayments, to compensating the SLAVE OWNERS for their “loss of property” resulting from abolition. #BBCDailyPolitics

Also, the phrase “wealth creators” is both a misnomer and massively overused by people shilling for the parasite class. *Some* people with wealth create jobs with investment, but those who milk assets, property and shares, for passive income, are absolutely not wealth creators, they create NOTHING.

Mad how MSM in the UK is attempting to demonise Zohran by UNDERLINING him as a “Democratic Socialist”. I don’t think they get how much they are helping “the left” with this framing, because the main thing holding back the likes of Zack Polanski is left wing voters thinking they can’t win…

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Happy Guru Nanak Gurpurab to all Sikhs celebrating today 💚

IMHO the reason why employers and governments don’t want to acknowledge COVID as a mass disabling event is that there would be liability. And if not compensatory, at the very least, a responsibility to change employment law and working environments, and because that costs money…

Every single discussion on every single political broadcast… it is like the elephant in the room farted.

Listening to political commentators it is jarring to realise how “far left” I have apparently become, without changing my position at all in 25 years, when I was essentially an ecologically aware Gordon Brown.

If you’re looking for an artistic project to support, please check out the current Arachne Press Crowdfunder. Following on from the highly rated Joy//Us poetry anthology for queer joy, we have Up//Roar an anthology of queer resistance. Necessary, and timely. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uproar-poems...

"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. " #Reform #politics #woke morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...

Every anti Zohran article is like “Zohran Mamdani *spins wheel* hates to sing *throws dice* Dancing Queen *throws dart* with white people - isn’t that terrible!”.

Got my contributor’s copy of Class Lines & Red Lines, a poetry anthology from Left Cultures. Such an honour to have my dark little fable alongside such talented comrades. Thank you Left Cultures and @janinebooth.bsky.social Onwards ✊🏾 #Poetry #PoetsLife #BookPostIsTheBestPost

Time for another introductory post, I think (Welcome, new defectors). I am a progressive poet and activist based in London, with publications and performances going back nearly ten years. A selection of which can be found via the link in my bio. Art is work, and The Great Work is for us all.