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MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

This time next week i'll be in London for this one, would be great to see loads of you there given that between the train, travelodge and two days off work, it's costing me more than HALF the advance just to come and do it 😳😳😳😳😳😳

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Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.

• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.

When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.

When Walter Benjamin spent 5 months in Naples in the 1920s, he wrote about poverty, inequity and the mafia, and most critics stop there, but he went on to write about its anarchic vibrancy, courtyards, streets and stairways, a new theatre, an unforeseen constellation, where nothing lasts forever.

When Walter Benjamin spent 5 months in Naples (1920s), he wrote about poverty, inequity and the mafia, and most stop there, but he went on to its anarchic vibrancy, courtyards, streets & stairways, a new theatre, an unforeseen constellation where nothing lasts forever.

iPhone 17 | Leica Lux Pro

Black and white photo of an unkempt man staring into the camera

Homeless Man, Spitalfields, 1969 by Don McCullin. “I held his gaze and looked into the bluest eyes I had ever seen then brought my Nikon up to my eye and took the photo. He looked like one of those Neptune figures”. McCullin thought this was the best portrait he had ever taken.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Gordon Parks’ 1950s photographs ‘made the Black community fully human’ ‘We Shall Not be Moved’ at Alison Jacques gallery in London is essential and moving viewing

Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra...

Really enjoyed this powerful and thoughtful adaptation of Crime and Punishment by Northern Broadsides; do catch it if it comes your way. Cast in Doncaster is a splendid theatre doing a great job!

for attitudinal changes by age. It looks very sloppy.

Too long for social media but they seem have ignored completely the wide variation in general population norms between different countries when it comes to gender roles. It makes the amalgamation of results meaningless. They also haven’t compared like with like on Gen Z v boomers as no adjustments

Also the relevant comparison would be between gen Z and what Boomers thought when they were the age gen Z are now.

It varies a lot according to the question asked. You can find the full results here but I think the methodology is questionable at best https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/iwd-2026-global-charts-final.pdf

In the meantime—and it's quite possible, I'm advised, that these slimebuckets have closed all their legal loops—I wrote a pretty good book that you can acquire for not a lot of money or take out of the library, and I've been known to answer questions here when people ask me questions.

Still depressing numbers of course

Early stroll. The made-to-measure sky. A possibility of loitering mist. Historic sites of former puddles. The bus passes slowly, like time sometimes does. A security light blink, blinks again, then stays awake.

Lazy click bait journalism. You cannot reliably amalgamate results of a global survey when the views held by Gen Z men in different countries vary so widely. The combined number used in the article is meaningless for anything other than outrage and fuelling generational divisions.

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment (Gift Article) The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

Richard Hell’s East Village flat full of books

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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! Here's a badger I once painted. Oil on board...

Here's some of my furniture featuring a Welsh blanket pattern.
#art #design #furniture

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Leeds, c.late 1980s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Early stroll. String tied around a streetlight. A pile of twigs like a fascinator museum. The simple beauty of a bus shelter. A yellow and green toy supermarket trolley in a garden. That fence is wearing a discarded jacket.

Screenshot of a photo zine in development. On the front is a Red Rebel with the words Rebellion! and Davenant. The next page has the words: "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion" Oscar Wilde Opposite is a protester in a V for Vendetta mask holding a placard which says THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT

I’ve thought for a long time that photo books have become too expensive, making them inaccessible to many people. So I’m mostly going to give up on them and move to doing high quality zines at an affordable price instead. Rebellion! will be a zine not a book and it’s coming along nicely.

Launched earlier today, my new and second zine, ‘On the road’.

Whilst making work, driving between locations, and sometimes also travelling on planes, trains and boats, I am drawn to the world often speeding by....

50 copies already sold.

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Yes the printer I’m using for zines produces very high quality prints for this type of publication, and these aren’t for display in the National Gallery or Tate so we have to be realistic about the balance between cost and quality.

I’ve been very impressed with the quality I’ve seen so far

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Next meeting:
🗓️ Mon 16 Mar, 6–8pm
📍Meet in the quad outside Northumberland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG
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Early stroll. My slowly disappearing apple. The gate of the empty house has swung open. Birdsong is morning’s ringtone. Light’s bottle is slowly opening. I measure out my life in strolls.