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YouTube video by Sierra Ferrell Sierra Ferrell - Wish You Well (Official Music Video)

#SONGTODAY A lovely, lilting, lost love song from Sierra Ferrell from her 2024 album Trail Of Flowers youtu.be/w4cQ26dgaO4?...

#POEMTODAY 19th century Irish poet James Clarence Mangan laments the loss of his greatest love in this poem brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/and-...

YouTube video by Earth to Eve - Topic NO KINGS

#SONGTODAY As the No Kings movement in the USA gathers momentum, there are several great songs emerging that protest Trump's rule - here's one by Earth to Eve youtu.be/QZx5gWj5g7Q?...

#POEMTODAY You can almost taste the fruit inh this poem by Madagascan poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/frui...

#POEMTODAY South African poet Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi writes about the issues that arise from different cultural viewpoints brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob...

YouTube video by Tom Paxton - Topic My Lady's a Wild, Flying Dove

#SONGTODAY One of my all time favourite love songs: Tom Paxton's My Lady's a Wild, Flying Dove (1964) youtu.be/VmLisJQSpcM?...

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie – Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live, 1973)

#SONGTODAY David Bowie live in 1973 - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide youtu.be/CD1nzOeS6U0?...

One of the greats

#POEMTODAY This humorous poem by ancient Greek poet Aristophanes reminds us of the hypocrisy of men brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/wome...

YouTube video by Bruce Goldish Jackson Browne plays for me busking

#SONGTODAY A real gem: Jackson Browne playing a Leonard Cohen song with/for a street busker and demonstrating his consummate artistry seemingly effortlessly youtu.be/D-53f3PoKC8?...

#POEMTODAY An excellent poem, full of great imagery, about Africa by Angolan poet Antonio Agostinho Neto brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/afri...

YouTube video by Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega - Alley (Official Audio)

#SONGTODAY Looking forward to seeing Suzanne Vega live tonight at Manchester Bridgewater Hall - so here's a song from her new album 'Flying with Angels' youtu.be/NQyisuukoZM?...

#POEMTODAY A vivid poem about a burial by Papua New Guinea poet Jack Lahui brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

How the west can stop the global south being strangled by debt | Heather Stewart Labour would do well to remember its manifesto promise to revive Britain’s global leadership on development

How the west can stop the global south being strangled by debt | Heather Stewart

Sooooo good!

Betfred says gambling tax rise in budget will force it to shut all its UK shops Levies thought to be under consideration will kill profits, say bosses, as gambling firms ramp up lobbying efforts

Holding govts to ransom.

Billionaire owner of Betfred says if UK govts raises tax it will close gambling shops.

Wants someone else to bear social cost of gambling.

Less tax on gambling means more for shareholders, execs.

Any big business not holding govt to ransom?

YouTube video by Josh Garrels - Topic All That I Am (feat. Hannah Boesen)

#SONGTODAY A new song from wonderful indie Christian singer-songwriter Josh Garrels youtu.be/lTI5e2m12rE?...

#POEMTODAY A plea to God for more time by Romanian poet Magda Isanos brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/dear...

YouTube video by anyamarinamusic Anya Marina & Matt Pond - ARE YOU TALKING TO ME (Official Video)

#SONGTODAY Frrom one of my favourite indie singer-songwriters Anya Marina, a new song (together with Matt Pond) youtu.be/ZGq3D1eRHQE?...

#POEMTODAY This poem by Dominican poet Ángela Hernández Núñez speaks of waiting for love brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/ligh...

YouTube video by Bruce Hunter 5. Seek For The Sword That Was Broken

#SONGTODAY For me the best Lord of the Rings music comes from Stephen Oliver's score for the BBC radio adaptation - here's Seek For The Sword That Was Broken (with Jeremy Vine's wonderful singing towards the end) youtu.be/qQW4Z6ySedw?...

Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

We're in a global climate crisis. The UK government shouldn't be welcoming the very people who caused it.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/uk-labour-ministers-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-analysis

#POEMTODAY Carlos Bahr was an Argentinian Tango lyricist - here's one about the strength of love brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...

Get Keir to COP The UK can’t sit out the world’s biggest climate talks — tell Keir Starmer to show up and take action at COP30.

Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30, world’s biggest climate talks.UK families are paying the price of climate chaos facing flooded homes, rising food prices, higher insurance cost. Vital ecosystems like the Amazon hang in the balance. Tell him to show up & take action act.gp/3J3aTRg

YouTube video by Jimi Hendrix - Topic The Wind Cries Mary

#SONGTODAY A restrained Jimi Hendrix in this gentle love song from 1967's Are You Experienced album youtu.be/Z7K5VCCdOEM?...

#POEMTODAY Wriiten whilst in jail, here's a poem from 11th century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-ho...

YouTube video by Emily Linge Love of My Life - Queen (Acoustic cover by Emily Linge)

#SONGTODAY An exquisite cover of Queen's Love of My Life by Emily Linge (who was 16 when she recoerded this) youtu.be/CET-fHIPTXo?...

#POEMTODAY Palestinian poet Iqbal Tamimi writes about the pain of forced separation brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/sepa...

YouTube video by Dire Straits Dire Straits - Lions (Old Grey Whistle Test,16.5.1978)

#SONGTODAY An early Dire Straits performance from 1978 with typically great guitar playing by Mark Knopfler youtu.be/fXgfgEgDHP0?...

#POEMTODAY Here's a poem by South Korean poet Lee Jang-wook writing figuratively about assimilation brucespoems.blogspot.com/2025/10/tong...