Keith Jebb

And from Palestine. As with much in politics—as with the psyche—it’s overdetermined.

A Ring Listening again to George Herbert's "Hope"

For your Sunday, I wrote about hearing something I’d never noticed before in a small but perfect poem by George Herbert

Stop Trump's Killer Robots Trump wants to build autonomous killer robots - and OpenAI just volunteered. This is a defining moment: either AI is used to help us, or it’s used to kill us.While OpenAI has jumped in with both feet

Trump wants to build autonomous killer robots - and OpenAI just volunteered.

This is a defining moment: either AI is used to help us, or it’s used to kill us. Stop Trump's killer robots: action.eko.org/a/stop-trump...

THIS.

BSFA Awards shortlists announced.
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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Email Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal sewage until 2040

No more Dirty Business ! The public, MPs and Environmental Groups have said NO to 14 years of illegal Thames Water sewage pollution. Email Ofwat now, so that they can't ignore us @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...

All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.

We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.

Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

Don't let your eyes fool you; this is exactly what it looks like... a modern-day American Gestapo. The USA is an absolute disgrace of a country.

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

A pleasure!

Keep up the good work. You’re part of a lineage beginning with Charlotte Burne and Georgina Jackson (as you know) and worthy of that.

It would break @bbclaurak.bsky.social

Tbh I prefer the prose. But I did either Life Studies too.

The Arthur Scargill Archive Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.

The Arthur Scargill Archive. An essential resource for the study of the British labour movement. A collection of national significance including correspondence, subject files, transcripts of speeches, photographs & audio/visual material: sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

And here’s something everyone should know about Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel:

That’s two interesting accs to follow!

Loydell on @nicholasroyle.bsky.social

I started struggling at 1200–undergrad middle and Old English was never that strong!

Bridgnorth diary 21/2/1866

Volume 2, Issue 1, 2026 | Journal of Language and Pop Culture Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

We're very happy to announce the publication of issue 2(1) of the Journal of Language and Pop Culture.

It features contributions by Christoph Schubert, Dr. Gardy Stein, Lorenzo Mastropierro & Kathy Conklin, and Harald Spann & Thomas Wagner.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Ministers’ Families in the IDF: is that why no prosecutions? It has long been a scandal that British citizens could fight in a genocidal war machine and face no penalty.…

🔥 This is important. Please do have a read.

FILM NOIR (Palindrome)

Prepare trope résumé:

Mad, arid antihero.

Man in a motel,
at a femme fatale,
to man in a more hit nadir.

A dame,
muse,
reporter —
a perp.

YouTube video by Jesse Welles Whirlwind

No one said that life was fair

But does it have to be this evil?

Diabolical illogical

It'll leave you feeling feeble

It ain't five-dimensional chess

It's dementia doin' its best

A-ring-a-ding-ding

Ya got the mad king

And he's mean when he's depressed

Surely the point is that the completion lines are basically trite and generic. The positivity comes from lack of complexity and nuance—two of the keys to good lyric poetry. AIs are shit poets.

Mondelēz: Stop stuffing Oreos with deforestation Mondelēz is double-stuffing its Oreo cookies with bulldozed orangutan habitat. The candy giant knows its palm oil is wiping out Indonesia’s last rainforests, but it’s falling short of real action. No

Tell Mondelēz to quit its villain era and stop stuffing Oreos with deforestation: action.eko.org/a/mondelez-s...

"There’s something outrageous about the stripping away of the politics of Wuthering Heights...most students understand that the novel is not really a love story...revenge, class struggle, power, whiteness" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All the buzz about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering H, & Elordi's Heathcliff makes me wonder why nobody has as yet mentioned "Dude Watching with the Brontes" (by the brilliant @katebeaton.bsky.social, who has long since anticipated all we mere mortals have to say):
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

A "chicken flap" in the wall of a chicken house, made out of an old toilet seat. (If they'd flipped it around, they could have also had a little entry ramp.)

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.