A very happy paperback publication day to Sir Ed Davey, whose WHY I CARE is a devastating, beautiful, warm-hearted and very thoughtful book about what life as a carer involves and why we need to value those who care. This is a good introduction to the book's themes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaL...
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
It’s nonsense. 75% of our gas imports come from Norway, 17% from the US & just 1-2% from Qatar, so trying to squeeze a tiny bit more from North Sea fields that’ve been declining for decades will make no odds to security, global prices or tax receipts. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a09...
I’ll be at York Literature Festival talking about ‘These Isles: A People’s History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales’. Weds 18th March, 6pm, in conversation with Prof Gweno Williams. Book here: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/these-i...
That’s the stuff
'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' is number three Amazon bestseller in geographical history. Price drop: more than 40% off the cover price until March 14th. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestselle...
'It’s a wonderful tribute to the Anglo-Celtic isles...So entertainingly provided.' Thoughtful review of 'These Isles' in the Mail by writer and critic Christopher Hart. www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Amid all the talk about why this or that party won or lost, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that Hannah Spencer was a great candidate - pretty nearly the perfect pick for this constituency.
This was a very nice evening with @groomb.bsky.social - despite having been here a while now first time at the Portico Library too.
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This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.
As Reform is pushing another set of insane deportations policies today.... here's my post from last year on what would happen if they actually tried to do this stuff in government.
samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
No. Next question.
‘Farage has already unveiled plans to deport up to 600,000 migrants. “Remigration” – a fancy term for the “send them back” motif that has defined far-right rhetoric for decades – is back on the political agenda. Do they mean me? Who is them? Where is back?’
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This coming Thursday evening, publication day. Just a few tickets left.
Congrats to you all!
I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.
Or you could have fish fingers, if you live in the real world.
Lovely piece. Where even is Brentford?
‘Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it.’
My thoughts on Sir Jim Ratcliffe
I wrote for the Guardian about why Jim Ratcliffe's talk of Britain being "colonised" by immigrants crosses the line between legitimate debate and inflammatory rhetoric. It fuses echoes of Powellism with great replacement conspiracies of "civilisational erasure"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Manchester’s trendy Northern Quarter wasn’t always coffee bars and record shops. In 1885, it was full of illegal gambling dens. Story here:
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I could watch this all day
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
What a beautiful cover
Speaking as a match going Red, these are not our values as a club and you should sell up and go back to Monaco. Cheerio.
