Sign the open letter: it's time for the people to take the reins. Your Party is too important to fall at the first hurdle. If you agree that the founding conference should be organised by a democratically elected body, sign your name.

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The Autumn Schedule of the London Modernism Seminar is here!
18 Oct: Asha Rogers 'Un/modern matter'
James Jordan 'The East End, Television and the Documentary Imagination, July 1939'
1 Nov: Aaron Rosenberg 'Climate of Conspiracy: Conrad, Greenland, and the Fourth Dimension'
Jed Esty Title tbc.

The Parliamentary Black Caucus condemns in the strongest terms the recent rise in racism, abuse and anti-migrant hatred that we have witnessed in many parts of our beloved country. Whilst all people have the right to peaceful protest, we are clear that racism, intimidation and violence have no place in our society and must be met with a clear and robust response from the police authorities. From people being assaulted and abused in public because of their ethnicity, religion or dress, to racist graffiti sprayed on buildings, to intimidatory and violent protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, this is an alarming time for many people, especially those from minoritised communities. We stand in solidarity with all those who are fearful, targeted or at risk.

The Government must show leadership. It must take urgent steps to reduce tensions, call out and challenge racist rhetoric and behaviour wherever it occurs, and take far more seriously the threat posed by the far right — which police have identified as the UK’s fastest-growing threat. We also call on the public to reject the divisive agenda of the far right, who are seeking to exploit recent tensions to spread anti-migrant hatred as well as mis and disinformation. This country is stronger when we stand together. We absolutely should have space in our country for informed discussions around migration, immigration and integration. This should be based on facts, compassion and most importantly, humanity. The Parliamentary Black Caucus believes in a patriotism that is inclusive, welcoming and proudly anti-racist — because only unity and solidarity will defeat the far right.

As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾

Whereas this thread is opinions without facts, and facts that bear no relation to the opinions.

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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YouTube video by Stella 2025 Stella Prize Winner Michelle de Kretser - Acceptance Speech

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Next steps — Your Party

Interesting www.yourparty.uk/next-steps Next steps — Your Party

Yvette Cooper: Stop attacking the right to protest. Tell the Home Secretary to repeal extreme anti-protest laws and protect our right to protest.

Email Yvette Cooper and tell her that the right to protest is part of any functioning democracy and if she wants to even pretend we’re that, she needs to stop preventing pretty much all protest the government doesn’t like.
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So the two leading opposition parties, one of which is led by a Black woman, are white power nationalists now, and the governing party hopes that the opposition's supporters won't notice that it basically isn't? Have I got that right?

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Congratulations to Mimi Khalvati, who has won the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize with her Collected Poems!

The announcement was made yesterday evening, Wednesday, 4 June, at a reception at the British Library.

Well done Mimi!! 🎉🎉
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Yes dada, I rejoice in it. With a big reservation

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I welcome Richardson scholars to join us as special guests. We had terrific support in 2022 and it greatly enriched the experience. DM me if you'd like to take part.

I will be hosting a group read of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in 2026. American readers will be able to purchase a new US edition from @asterismbooks.bsky.social in September. Join the email list at ReadingPilgrimage.com to learn more.

I stagger each morning to my feet. By the end of the morning I am beaten to my knees. By mid-afternoon, prone. Recover a little after tea & two pages Proust. Till supper I float detached – (except when there is an ear to be kept on a saucepan) – surrounded by pads, yellow envelopes.

Feel very subdued & lost. Can’t get over Conrad’s death. It seems to bring the whole edifice of modern English literature down with a crash, his removal. That's wicked I know. It's simply that the outlines of what is now building aren’t yet visible.

Of course you take your poetry seriously.

May Sinclair Papers at the University of Sussex The papers at The Keep, University of Sussex were unsorted and impossible to use in any meaningful sense. They have now been sorted, catalogued, and are available for researchers. You can view the …

By way of introduction (this is who I am and what I do), let me tell you about something I got up to this summer. May Sinclair has an archive at Penn, but some papers were recently donated to Sussex. They were a mess! Nibbled by mice and In all kinds of order maysinclairsociety.com/2024/09/26/m...

Out this week — and delighted and honoured to be in it. Congratulations and thanks @matthewtaunton.bsky.social & Rachel Potter 🙏🏽💡🤔💭📚

Happy 100th Birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was first published on 10 April 1925 and which I’m looking forward to discussing at the @londonmodernismsem.bsky.social one month from today 🥳

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This is telegrammatically hasty, for I’m beseiged, hunted. Arrears of occupation. Battalions of demands.

It is quite a good thing you don’t provide pistols as well as torches upon your bedside tables.

I have just acquired a telephone.
24 June 1929

Can we launch a class-action lawsuit against recipes that say "30 minutes preparation time!", then leave you - two hours later - a broken-down ruin, standing in the burning rubble of the kitchen, practically wearing the contents of the fridge?

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Our doors are dreams. We open & shut them without need, just to see how be-utifully they do it. But the front lock, as I say, will no longer work.

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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