Barrie Llewelyn

It tells you everything about the kind of people that are going to promote this person to martyr now.

Labour win the Hamiltion by-election from SNP, Reform finish 3rd, and the first thing the BBC do is, yep, interview Richard Tice..

First thought.

First thought.

Stock markets today:

Hong Kong: -13.6%
Taiwan: -9.6%
Japan: -9.5%
Italy: -8.4%
Singapore: -8%
Sweden: -7%
China: -7%
Switzerland: -7%
Germany: -6.8%
Spain: -6.4%
Netherlands: -6.2%
Australia: -6.2%
France: -6.1%
UK: -5.2%

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For my Welsh rugby supporting friends: Do you think maybe we should bring back Delilah???

Independent 🇨🇦 forever.

There’s a position I never thought I’d have to declare.

Driving home from an excellent day of teaching and working with aspiring writers.

Caught Keir Starmer’s statement in Parliament on Ukraine and I’m feeling a rare and unusual pride in an elected leader. And the opposition is behaving really well too!

#itsagoodday

Proud to be Woke

Drugs??

I truly believe that US citizens will never accept anything other than democracy. It is a dark, dark time but there will be a red line.

I hope it’s the disgusting attack on Zelenskyy. I hope it’s the cynical capitulation to Putin. But I think it will be the price of eggs.

I would love to know if there are Republicans (not MAGA- the other kind) who voted for him because they thought it was genuinely a better option than Harris who are regretting their vote yet?There must be GOPs in the civil service who have lost their jobs, GOPs who are worried about SS benefits ?

It’s so pretty. Let’s not wreck it too.

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

This is probably the most accurate take.

Hope this is true.

#followbackfriday Looking for blue skiers who are as appalled as I am.

Is #followbackfriday a thing here?

Sent to me by a friend in Europe ...Who asked me how did we end up with a South African Racist President Elon Musk..NEO APARTHEID

Titled: HOW TO DESTROY A COUNTRY

To distract myself from all the evil shit I switched on the the Boyzone doc #nomatterwhat I thought it would warm my heart to look back at the cozy 90s. Wrong. Different kind of evil shit. Louis Walsh - not a nice man and he doesn’t care who thinks so.

Ooof

Of course it was. #nodoubt

Delighted to have co-authored a chapter for this important book to be published in June.

I hope this is true.

Presented my annual Raymond Carver, short story writer and poet, lecture to my marvellous 2nd year students today. Never dates, always inspires - even with the discussion about Lish and the role of the editor. What a story Now this fan girl is off to bed with Carver’s collected poems, All of Us.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
~ John Lewis

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

On January 20, let’s all be Michelle. Don’t watch the inauguration. Instead, tune into MLK Day programming.