I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Tell the RNLI to think again over job losses on Isle of Wight. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

Fascism, not only a very brutal, but a very old political philosophy - English Brecht in @lrb.co.uk, 3(13), 1981

We hope your bank holiday is as idyllic as this waterfall scene 💙 'Bank Holiday, Waterfall' by Robert Evans Creer (1838–1915) 📸 Manx National Heritage

This is evil collective punishment.

Here is Denis Ferhatović's recreation of the Old English poem, The Wanderer, just published in the literary journal Exchanges. Gorgeous, funny, heart-breaking. exchanges.uiowa.edu/axforms-ferh...

@martinrowson.bsky.social in this morning's Morning Star

May Day poster, Cuba by Daysi García López, 1970

Just got home to find this - by the late Michael Parenti - has arrived. @leftbookclub.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Just finished reading this. Loved the evocation of the London Blitz - with nods to Sarah Waters' 'The Night Watch' inter alia. Less convinced by the magic(k). The scene in the church on Christmas Eve 1940, however, was immensely moving. Like a grown-up version of the finale to 'The Box of Delights'

The UK should be strengthening relationships around the world to make new alliances that reduce our dependency on the US, not further cosying up to Trump. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-no-...

Len Deighton's last Cookstrip - in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Food Monthly, 2021 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Defend Ameen Hadi and Salford City UNISON. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

What's really bothering me is that I thought Habermas had died some time last year

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Here's the direct link. Hope the campaign succeeds! www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...

I've signed the trade union statement against the illegal war on Iran Backed by 18 national organisations Add your name > actionnetwork.org/forms/trade-... #NoWarOnIran

Dorset Archives Trust (DAT) hopes to raise £48,000 to catalogue and open up the full archive of Sylvia Townsend Warner, the author, poet, and LGBTQ+ pioneer who lived much of her life in Dorset. www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2590162...

David Bowie Died 10th January 2016 Fergus Greer bromide fibre print, 2001 Nationak Portrait Gallery

Report: There Still Time To Convert To Christianity Before Christmas Starts — theonion.com/report-there...

Composer Hanns Eisler was a lifelong communist and self-described Jacobin. His music provided the soundtrack for both the tragedies and triumphs of German antifascism. jacobin.com/2018/10/hann...

ONE WEEK TO GO 👇 Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox, Dr Rafeef Ziadah ⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis... @versobooks.bsky.social

Save the Wyndham Road footbridge www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2561899...

@garyseconomics.bsky.social : "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger and a bigger share in economies with almost no growth and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"

Brian Eno: "I'd like the whole taxation system to be fairer, which means rich people paying more tax and poor people paying less tax... people know that somethings wrong, they know that rich people don't pay much tax compared to their incomes"

William Morris - artist, poet, designer, craftsman & socialist Died 3rd October 1896, aged 62 His doctor famously stated that his death was "simply being William Morris and having done more work than most ten men".

Gardening jobs for October

Blowy Bournemouth this morning

Blowy Bournemouth

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!! Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

New info page myth-busting Reform UK's climate denial - and more importantly flyers available to take those messages into communities around the country.

Jobs for the September garden

Raymond Williams - novelist, critic, teacher, socialist. Born in Llanfihangel Crucornau, Wales on 31st August 1921.

August Bank Holiday, Great Yarmouth C. A. Mellon, 1931 Oil on canvas Bristol Museum & Gallery

Lovely presents from my family

Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. “Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.

Who's who?

No, me neither www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

16th August 1819 A peaceful demonstration in Manchester was attacked by armed cavalry, killing 15 people and injuring more than 600. The struggle for democracy has been long and costly. The struggle continues. #Peterloo

Bertolt Brecht - poet, dramatist and communist Died 14th August 1956

11-year-old wildlife campaigner Amaya Edwards saw a seal killed by a flying ring. Now she’s leading a campaign to ban them from beaches, and she won’t stop until real change happens.

National Union of Mineworkers banner Artist unknown, 1946-47 Textile & paint North Lanarkshire Museums #SocialistSunday

August Greetings Haymaker at Church Farm Horace Mummery, c. 1900 Oil on canvas Bruce Castle Museum