Jon Turney

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Time for Liz Truss to add PM of France (temp) to her CV, if she has a few days to spare?

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

'Ribbons', a poem by Seamus Heaney, is published for the first time.

The poem appears in The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis. The definitive edition of Heaney's poetry is out on 9 October.

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

S5 E10 - Cordelia Fine on Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m

I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”

She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda ADAM BIENKOV OCT 04, 2025 Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Not up to me :)

I will, but will she?

Argh. Granddaughter is rather keen on fairies…

Jon Turney - Solar Power to the People Jon Turney: Solar Power to the People - Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben

Am in the Literary Review this month: there’s posh (paywall)

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Nick Malcolm and Out Front – ‘Buried Webs’ - UK Jazz News It’s good to have a plan, but you have to follow through. Trumpeter Nick Malcolm and Out Front here give us a recording that benefits richly from both. The plan was to form a group to explore composit...

New CD review

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The RS is (not completely) full of smart people, but institutionally it is as dumb as institutions tend to be...

would recommend :)

Yup

Never know what’s going to turn up in donations to Books for Amnesty - signed first edition of Shackleton’s expedition narrative sold at auction today for two grand :)

Ed's right. Again.

The first 8 workshops are bookable now: Pitching and partnerships, Climate literacy, Marketing and branding yourself, Freelancing as a neurodiverse person, Making Tax Digital, A beginners' guide to tax, Global perspectives and Your leadership toolkit.

Tell your freelance friends!

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would recommend :)

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

Launch reading by Emilie Jelinek, Clare Pollard and Jessica Traynor YouTube video by Bloodaxe Books

Excellent launch reading here from the amazing Bloodaxe books, whose poetry collections run into the thousands …

www.youtube.com/live/He4JaXN...

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

Tony Harrison died on 26 September. The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 published nearly thirty of his poems over the years. He will be much missed.

The most famous of those poems was ‘v.’, first published in our pages forty years ago – a fearless, state-of-the-nation epic.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

I love how, when you ask ChatGPT a hard question and it says "thinking", there's a button you can press "skip this step". I guess that's how some human brains work too....

Too many of you are showing that you've never been stopped and searched on the street.

Your ID card discourse is myopic.

Asking for your papers is one of those 'discretionary' things and guess who the police use their discretion on?

Gatwick expansion blows another huge hole in the UK Government's already perforated climate commitments.

New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social

climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...

Bristol jazz calendar now updated for October
bristoljazzlive.co.uk

Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil Final decision has yet to be made amid ‘big fight inside government’ over trip by prime minister

Kier Starmer in 2022 🫠😡

“Many people would be expecting the prime minister of the UK not just to attend COP but to use it as an opportunity to pull world leaders together to deal with climate. If I was prime minister I would be going.”

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YouTube video by Danny Thompson Danny Thompson - Dargai (Remastered 2023) (Whatever Next)

RIP Danny Thompson
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Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.

Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨

We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.

More detail below and in 🧵

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