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Just finished reading this brilliant read from @postalpathsguy.bsky.social If you like walking books as well as history and stories of characters from the past this is thoroughly recommended.

We've had a great day in Scotland on the first day of our #TaxTheSuperRich bus tour.
We'll be in Newcastle tomorrow, meet us on the corner of Market Street and Grey Street in the city centre, from 10am 📍

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.

...listen to @carolinebirduk.bsky.social's documentary through BBC Sounds (or in the Falling Tree archive) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory.

Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.

An illustration of this year's game. Text says: "Hidden Books Game is BACK! Play at nationalbooktokens.com" and "Win £500 to spend on books".

Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎

Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).

Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR

✊ We are hiring!

The HOPE not hate team is growing and we’re looking to recruit for the following roles:

• Investigative Journalist (Europe)
• Community Tensions Researcher

Find out more and apply here: hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...

THE CASE OF THE DREAMING DRAGON | Letterbox Library by Patrice Lawrence We’ve waited ever so long. But the wait was so worth it. The Elemental Detectives, Marisee Blackwell and Robert Strong, are back on the case in the conclusion to Patrice Lawrence’s...

“The plot is sublime, spiralling out into the city’s nooks and crannies, intricate, but always firmly anchored by Lawrence’s soulful characters.”
@lawrencepatrice.bsky.social
The final Elemental Detectives is out! Perfect MG for history geeks&dragon-seekers.
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

Me too! Terrific.

#DiscoverFirst gives you the chance to get the next big book before it hits bookshops.

This month, we're offering 100 early copies of Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan – a tender celebration of first love and portrait of contemporary Britain – before it's out. 📚

Get your copy: buff.ly/9QiHEA4

Honestly, I think I could do a better job running Downing St communications and the BBC as a job share. Am available.

Three views of distant shores drawn in blacks and greys on white paper

Distant shores of the River Ore, Suffolk, seen from the Maybush Inn, Waldringfield.

Hurrah! The book is beautiful work of art. Looking forward to seeing the calendar.

This will be interesting. Tonight, 6.30pm. On Hopper's drawings. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edward-hop...

Benediction The story of English poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.

massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year

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Including uk.bookshop.org which shares profits with indie booksellers

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An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

We might also wonder why the BBC entrusts episodes of its leading current affairs strand to outside producers. But that takes us back to Conservative govmt demands, under the guise of market liberalisation, that they shift spending to independents. The slow death of the BBC was planned long ago…
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One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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LETTER: ‘You’ve misrepresented an entire culture’ - Open letter calls for TV show to apologise for its “blatant disregard” of Fair Isle knitting Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick has asked Channel 4 to apologise for “misrepresenting an entire culture” in Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter

An intelligent, interesting piece raising a number of interesting points about fibre arts in general and local traditions in particular 🧶

LETTER: Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick asks Channel 4 to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/8w5M8JpC28Mp...

We Can Make an Impact. Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham

Signed. c.org/7MK4MwbTHv

Each drawing takes about ~50 minutos to draw.

So I chaired a panel at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair yesterday, about #WeirdPride and unruliness, with two fantastic queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary writers and activists: @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social.

I loved hearing their thoughts on this.
www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

Boring Fund | Christina Poulton Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.

Link below.

Please share :)