Lucy Furlong

Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.

'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
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Morning all, if you know what an EHCP Annual review is you know where I'm at right now...

Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025 Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...

Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance
get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

Well, would you look at that.

My memory may be faulty, but I thought I remembered people being threatened with legal action for suggesting that UKIP MEPs were Russia and Putin’s stooges.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

Don't give it away

STRAY CATS RUNAWAY BOYS

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MY BLOODY VALENTINE ISN'T ANYTHING

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YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Official Video)

The Friday Choon RIP Mani - first time I saw this video was on MTV - I was in Von's recording studio in Islington, 1989. Quite a year. #musicsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSD1...

a girl in a school uniform is riding a bike through a forest Alt: a girl in a school uniform is riding a bike through a forest

Morning all. Back to the storage to empty it. Hoping to get my mountain bike put back together later so I can get cycling (been a few years since I've been on it!)

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12

Morning all, back again today - shifting stuff in and out of storage - one day I will be settled but not yet...

Selfie of me, a middle aged bint with black hair and bomber jacket in the midst of a long corridor full of yellow doors.

My life in storage...

Hope it feels better soon!

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?

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STEREOLAB FLOURESCENCES

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I was lucky enough to see her sing this at a solo gig at Koko a few years back. Magic.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN PSYCHOCANDY

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When you behave as if the current UK asylum & refugee situation is normal or unavoidable, you are completely failing to understand that the Tory party literally made it happen, on purpose. Not just in the broad sense of Brexiting us, but in actually breaking the existing asylum process.

There was no, repeat NO, rise in actual applications in that period. Just the strangulation of the process. By the Tory government. For kicks.

2016 Q4 - 7442 applications
2018 Q2 - 6608 applications
2018 Q4 - 8659 applications

2016, applications in system - 21,000
2019, ditto - 40,000
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In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.

At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.

By late 2018 it was 26%.

Smoking. Gun.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.

text -poem Early Morning Love Poem Duvet you are so groovet, I'd like to stay under you all of Tuesdet. Brian Bilston

Feeling this today, from @brianbilston.bsky.social , as I bag up clothes for charity shops (no time for Vinted which seems to be all the rage these days) and re-sort out and box up stuff to go back into storage. #poetrysky

In the foreground stretching away is a large Chartres style labyrinth in purple, painted on canvas (about 20 ft across approx). In the background is the back wall of the chapel I was in, in Hampstead, with the organ and choir in view...all darkened as it was a candlelit walk.

Wonderful labyrinth walk on Sat afternoon. I spent the afternoon in a beautiful chapel in Hampstead, with stained glass by Burne Jones & William Morris. A quick snap, taken at the end of the afternoon. Needed this -I’m now entering more legal processes to keep my son in his school next year.

Instead, we have the most grotesque details of the punishment approach. Forcing people fleeing a war zone into administrative limbo for two decades is obscene. It is the opposite of what you would do if you gave a damn about integration, or the dignity of refugees.

In the foreground stretching away is a large Chartres style labyrinth in purple, painted on canvas (about 20 ft across approx). In the background is the back wall of the chapel I was in, in Hampstead, with the organ and choir in view...all darkened as it was a candlelit walk.

Wonderful labyrinth walk on Sat afternoon. I spent the afternoon in a beautiful chapel in Hampstead, with stained glass by Burne Jones & William Morris. A quick snap, taken at the end of the afternoon. Needed this -I’m now entering more legal processes to keep my son in his school next year.

YouTube video by Smalltown Supersound Kelly Lee Owens - Let It Go

Decluttering music #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSit...

'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC

🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...