@salthepoet
Writer and activist into landscape and radical history, natural world, voices, song, radio, allotments, utopias. Poetry at www.poetrybusiness.co.uk Working on memoir, #HoldingMyGround about connection to land, its romance and reality.
Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
This drama based on factis essential viewing - its tremendous, shocking - and a call to action. www.theguardian.com/dirty-busine...
A dog, sun in the window, a bowl of porridge and the promise of Spring.
If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
My Rony had a morning programme on Radio Sheffield for over 30 years. I bought him a Chris in the Morning t shirt! He’d have loved to have interviewed you. Xxx
All tiny willow tit populations now gone at edge of Sheffield too.
Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs
And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic
So overjoyed that the marvellous Michael Lasky has won the King’s Medal for Poetry. He’s the biz. And I’m doing a workshop with him this week with @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
My friend Paul Besley has only gone and won The Great Outdoors Book of the Year! He was already shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award. Its a wonderful read - does much more than its title. Moving, fascinating. Loved it. open.substack.com/pub/headingf...
Robert Jenrick lives in Eye Manor, a Grade 1 listed building in rural Herefordshire bought in 2009 for over £1 million. I wonder whether he’s making an effort to integrate with his neighbours, especially poorer people?
In case you missed this, natural areas equivalent in size to Cyprus have been lost across Europe in just 5 years (2018-2023). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As if it couldn’t get worse.
Oh yes - I knew about the communist connection but whether the bakery was run on socialist principles, I don’t know!
Loved meeting you John. Thank you.
Thanks for this John! Great to meet you and tell you about this 19th century experiment and mine from the 20th!
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
Oh yes to that. It’s even worse when you can’t remember where you put the charging cable.
I need to read this dear John! Thank you.
Fascinating programme about Orwell and how far Animal Farm reflects the way real mixed farms and farming in general was changing in the 1940s. Intriguing to an old anarcho-socialist grower like me, born not long after in the early 1950s. #farming #orwell
It’s a dog’s life.
Oh I love Choughs! Thank you.
Glad to have signed this deeply thought-through letter. It often feels there’s little we can do, yet we can’t let what we witness on our screens & in print numb or paralyse us. Until the civilians of Gaza are safe & given adequate food, water, medical aid & relief. TY @horatioclare.bsky.social
An important, uplifting piece from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on the hope that springs from ‘a good year for wildlife.’ It proves the resilience of nature, & encourages those small, grass roots, ‘local’ efforts, despite the constant pummelling from government & many industry leaders…
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
Will we finally see action taken to address the hidden scandal of rampant farm waste dumping - aka slurry spreading. www.farminguk.com/news/defra-t...
Latin dance! Is there no end to your talents Nic!
I was reading it this morning and was so pleased to find you there! Xxx
