Caught late but caught.

'Thoughts of exploration are never far from the mind when immersed in this remarkable record. It lives up to its title, sounds apparently sprouting from the seeds of ideas, climbing through the creative consciousness’s soil...' Shabaka - Of The Earth buff.ly/a4H1F76

Mutt Not-Sore Goodloser should be rewarded by Reform with the Admiralty of Cornus Cobus Commonwealthia.

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table. [Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

Plumber, Plasterer, Parliamentarian! 💚

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

If you’re feeling up to it… one if my favourite songs just got more resonant: www.instagram.com/reel/DTjLINz...

36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

Two fascist regimes dragging the world into war.

Even that imperial mouthpiece the NYTimes is not having it.

Israel waged a war of annihilation in Gaza. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm. Trump is acting on Israel's direction in bombing Iran. Israel ignores the sovereignty of neighbouring states & is a danger to humanity. Israel should surrender their WMDs. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

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Somehow the Americans have a more cringe war name (Epic Fury) than the Israelis (Roaring Lion)

Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social : youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?...

Zack said they’d replace Labour here. Reform (put a flag in it!) started so haha strong… Glorious in itself, imagine a very different national politics and country! ‘Normally’ bye-election results are discountable. How ‘normal’ do you, does it, does this time feel? Resist denial.

Good morning 💚🌱 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Yup! Similar in UK where that statement incurs the affected wrath of genocide deniers who will scream that it is anti-Semitic and *even now* get a huge bang for their BS buck.

If only we weren’t so siloed in our budgeting. The gains for public health budgets from enabling a physically active population are immense. Safe routes for cycling are an investment in health more than a cost for transport budgets. 👇

The role of the mainstream media over the last 2+ years shown in a 7 second clip Green London assembly member Zoe Garbett: "We know that most people want to see an end to the genocide in Gaza" Reporter, voiceover: "Israel denies accusations of genocide in Gaza"

leaves invertebrates mycorrhizae atmosphere

Nearly three years ago, I wrote for @theipaper.com about how Westminster's debilitating caution and irrationality was letting us all down. Credit to Zack Polanski for trying to start a rational debate. inews.co.uk/opinion/west...

At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

Fight, fight, fight for your common/s, so few of them left. It’s always worth it: there would be no Epping Forest, Hainault Forest, Hampstead Heath, Peckham Rye (majority), Kennington Common… These spaces need *expanding* into the mid-Century especially in cities. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Like lions after slumber, unvanquishable number, oh yeah.

‘She spoke of the need for a “plurinational” state that recognised the rights of self-governance among diverse groups.’ Great (second half to this) long read. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

US-supplied internationally prohibited thermal & thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians, @aljazeera.com reveals. “We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part,” says one mother. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Aka ‘Opportunity Areas’ (for intensified development, doubling density, etc.)!

Don't miss today's conversation—recorded live at @powells.bsky.social, in downtown Portland, Oregon—with poet Canisia Lubrin about The World After Rain milkweed.org/between-the-... @silver-press.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social

Unbearable.

So often the case, especially now, that all that wealth buys a small cruel mind and space in the world. Ratcliffe is an immigrant in Monaco himself. Not that there’s anything negative about that (apart from what qualifies him ofc: the only reason he’s there 🤑).

Happened on this Constant at The Mayor Gallery on Bury Street today, recommend you do too before 20th Feb when the second of their centennial-celebratory shows closes. Rare sight in Ldn.

Reality: Mars sucks. No one can live there. Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either. More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.

And very VERY funny when he loses to Leanne Mohamad at the next GE :)))))

Ah! The speculations and nightmares of my youth! Early, instinctively. But if the aim is to dismantle and actually defeat them then more strategic timing perhaps? Yet I DO think acts change things, even at great cost. (Very live related issues here and in Europe too of course. How many steps away?)

Streeting>Mandleson: UK should join France in recognition🇵🇸 “Morally, because Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes … Politically, a Commons vote will be engineered in Sep on recognition & we will lose it if we’re not ahead of it.” The crimes of genocide! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Unlike trad dev’ts where infra often follows housing as an afterthought, Gilston’s £1bn infra budget is front-loaded*…The vision for Gilston is rooted in the garden town philosophy – a modern extension of Harlow in Essex, one of Britain’s orig postwar new towns.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

For London this is not as trivial as it may* appear! ‘We need people in power, public bodies, to recognise the value of green space & to actually acquire these spaces for the community & for the public to love & enjoy.’ National, regional & local govt need one voice/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

““the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with the stability of the victors and rulers or—the more difficult path—to consider that stability as a state of emergency threatening the less fortunate with the danger of complete extinction.”

We're over the book to announce that we'll be bringing three works by James Kelman back into print, starting with Kieron Smith, boy in June 2026 ✨

Given how McSweeney's Labour party has been pandering to Reform voters more or less since they gained power, Labour must think racism and bigotry are core British values.

‘Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine, by Marwan Barghouti, will be published by Penguin on 5 November this year, the publisher has told the Guardian.’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

[describes my writing ‘method’ mas o menos]

This was the justification for the UK gov’t to proscribe Palestine Actions who, unlike the UK gov’t, OPPOSE genocide. Not one only but as such. The same UK govt’ that is ending jury trials because juries are independent, juries aquit, juries oppose genocide too! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Splitting Yair’s. #GenocideMob

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