Clare Weze

I’m supporting #ReadItForward!
Buy UP ABOVE THE CITY during February and @bookshop_org_uk will donate 10% to @BookTrust and @scottishbktrust uk.bookshop.org/p/books/up-a...

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10% of ALL children’s book sales through Bookshop.org UK go to reading charities @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social in February 2026, and EVERY sale supports independent bookshops 📚https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-it-forward-with-bookshop-org

I am thrilled that GAO accepted my request to study the public health, equity, and economic impacts of RFK Jr.’s reckless decision to eliminate the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation, in response to a letter I led with @repkimschrier.bsky.social & 108 House Democrats.

10/02/2026
The chilling new novella from Anna Vaught

All The Days I Did Not Live

From the multi award-winning @renardpress.com

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Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

My book: The Year I Stopped to Notice, on a Persian-style carpet. The cover is rectangles in yellow, blue and cream with illustrations of a Chinese waving cat, a person on a bicycle, a fishmonger’s van, a Dachshund, a plant in a pot, a pigeon and 2 red mittens. Text on the post says Giveaway!!! With ‘party’ emojis.

Pages inside. An illustration by Luci Power of: A hairdresser in Islington washes the hair of a client as she stares out of the salon window, shampoo foaming up her arms like the encroaching tide.

Pages inside, no illustrations. Text: In the ever-changing winds at Bamburgh Castle, the long brown hair of a woman looking over the battlements becomes a perfect weathervane. Little boy near Alnwick (in rain so strong it’s hard to stand up): It’s wet. His dad: Aye, little laddy. That it is. A little girl wearing a yellow and white stripy dress shouts, ‘Pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket!’ to her bemused Dad, who clearly doesn’t understand the utter joy of suddenly discovering your favourite dress has pockets. A baby sits in a pram on the tube beside a woman who is sleeping. Between them is a pane of glass. The baby places her hand onto the glass – palm and fingers firm against it. She looks at the woman as if sending her a nice dream, then takes her palm off the glass and looks away.

Pages inside. Illustration of: Two men sit outside a café in the dark, the last of the autumn leaves swirling around them. They are playing chess. One man rests his head in his palm. The other reaches for a piece. Other text: Like an opening fan, five people at a bus stop lean sequentially to the left as they try to read the number of the bus coming up the road.

Giveaway! 🥳🤩🎉🎉 I’ve got a very special give away!! Two signed copies of my first book - and I’ll write a message inside to you, or someone of your choice!

To enter: repost this post, reply with what you like about January, and tag one other person you’d like to get a copy. 😀📚

I’m standing at the till in a shop, staring at a tub of cream cheese in my hands.
Shop owner: You ok?
Me: Yes, I’m just looking for the barcode, to scan it.
Shop Owner: You don’t need to do that, I’ve rung it up.
Me: Oh! I forgot, this is a place where humans still do things.
Her (smiling): Yes.

Perfect 😊

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

More appalling news from dystopia central

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If Farage had told them we should empty out Scotland and use it as a nuclear waste dump, he'd have been ignored. But he tells them to hate immigrants, and they jump straight to it. It was already in them. When the illegal ones have gone, he'll tell them to turn on those born here. And they will.

".....everywhere ICE goes, they have been met with ridicule, resistance, and contempt from ordinary Americans, unarmed and unbending, who have faced down the kidnappers and bullies ..people like Martinez, and like Good, are more numerous than the racists and the autocrats."

😁

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

I came to the same conclusion. Such a shame

The biggest problem in the world isn’t climate change, future pandemics, or democratic collapse.

It’s that far too many of our most brilliant minds are working on *everything but* those problems. 🧵

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga

YouTube video by Peter Kalu Act Normal extract - The hammer-blow of God!

The great Peter Kalu on racism in the countryside from his brilliant book #ActNormal. We were in #manchesterpoetrylibrary last night talking about our book Colonial Countryside
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Save Newham Libraries — Stop the Proposed 50% Budget Cuts! Sign the petition - Save Newham Libraries - Stop the Proposed 50% Budget Cuts! Newham Libraries are a lifeline for our community. But the Council is thinking of slashing our library budget by 50%. T...

Newham Libraries (my locals) are a lifeline for our community. But the Council is considering slashing the budget by 50%.This could mean closures, staff cuts, and service reductions. As we approach the year of reading we can’t allow councils to defund our libraries! actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named ‹ LNER Samir Zitouni is credited with saving lives on the train

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

> become a need and then an obligation and then a mess, as we’ve done and are doing.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2004/f... Ursula K Le Guin, in a 2004 Guardian article: “I like to dream about a people who have the wits and the strength of character to choose what they like and want from complex technology, and just leave what they don’t need aside - instead of letting everything >

UK news: The Treasury says it's lowering business rates for "butchers, bakers and other shops". Can't help wondering if those other shops are candlestick makers... Am I alone?

Exciting book post! Just sat down intending to read the first page only… you can imagine what happened. Page turned. Next page turned. Bye bye afternoon… very hooky 😍

I wondered why it was taking them so long to front up about their policies 😎

🤣🤣 you beat me to it!

It's a dilemma, but I've worked in environmental science and we stopped using our wood burner, even though we have access to cheap wood. This article is an interesting take, and morbidly hilarious. Not sure if everyone can access it, but here goes: www.samharris.org/blog/the-fir...

At last this is going mainstream

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice? "You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era

The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...