5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions, Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU neighbours. Worse, in a number of areas they’re planning to actively go backwards @ieep.eu
@europeanmovement.co.uk
"6 former Israeli hostages+widow of a slain hostage have released a video pleading with President Trump in English to support a comprehensive deal to make peace in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed." + Mossad/IDF want Trump to stop the genocide.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-u...
Five white A4 envelopes are spread out across the black cover of a front-loading cargo bike, under the pillared stone arches of the City Chambers quad in Edinburgh. The envelopes are marked with 'URGENT' and the logos of Spokes, the Lothian Cycle campaign, and edi.bike
This morning we've delivered an Open Letter, co-authored with Spokes, to the City Chambers - addressing the delays and deferrals of decisions on the East Area ‘Travelling Safely’ schemes, in London Rd, Willowbrae, Duddingston and beyond.
edi.bike/files/2025/p...
More power to your elbows!
🚨 BREAKING: 1,000 litres of “BLOOD” spills from a Shell platform in the North Sea.
Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
👌🏼🧡⭐
🚨 BREAKING: Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art on a gas platform to symbolise the DAMAGE fossil fuel giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
Who else is FED UP of big oil polluting the planet and getting away with it?
#ScottishPoetryEvents
LOUD POETS FRINGE 2025
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Dates: 1st, 8th, 14th, 21st Aug
Time: 8.30-9.45pm
Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...
Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.
No? Tell me what they are?
Hello @adriancoyle.bsky.social and @jennysanders.bsky.social I hardly ever look at bluesky but maybe I know you lovely people are here.
You express just what I think Aidan. Thank you - and thank you our half dozen, and thank you @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social and Roy McFarlane.
I love this TED talk. It helps give some perspective on the news headlines that assail us every day and all the time. www.angushervey.com?ref=fixthene...
What more is there to say. The USA/UK/Germany, to name the main culprits, will cry crocodile tears, perhaps. The genocide could have been stopped as soon as the ICC published its verdict. Soon a remnant of Gazans will be forcibly (called voluntarily) be pushed out.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
Good news for fans of independent cinema in Edinburgh. The Filmhouse (@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social) plans on reopening in June! www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/opening-th...
"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
Nine of those that marched to demonstrate resistance against the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline have been remanded ahead of their trial, and are without basic provisions in Kampala's maximum security prison. If you're able to donate to support them, please do so here.
chuffed.org/project/stud...
The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange And in today’s financial news, a sharp fall in the competence and capability markets have led to a rise in dolour against such a pounding and a yen to return to a rational world. The SADSAQ index has plummeted by a further 22%, following severe marble losses. Intelligence and acumen slumped by 34% and 45% respectively, while credibility tumbled, grazing both knees and fracturing its collarbone. Elsewhere, the FFS 100 index has seen a 12% rise in incredulity, as shares in buffoonery and idiocy continue to soar in response to another record-breaking day for the US president at the laughing stock exchange. Brian Bilston
This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.
Next Sunday poetry readings. 16 poets at the Story Telling Centre, Edinburgh. 11.30-12.30. Lunch available. I am one of the 16. #poems#poetry_readings#Edinburgh#School0fPoets#free
A tidy house, a tidy room
I look at them with envy.
I’d love to have a tidy place
Instead I’ve got high entropy
I’ve tried to please, to court and win
the gods of tidy living.
They turn their backs on all my pleas.
They stay aloof and unforgiving.
#poems#housework#tidyness#frustration#resignation
What was the occasion? I'm glad the oven didn't catch fire. 😉They look yummy.
A poem I wrote a couple of years ago about feminist philosophy in the 1980s and still relevant 40 years later. Modelled on one of my favourite Shakespeare sonnetsl #poem#philosophy#feminism#women#Shakespeare
Some years ago these municipal crocuses were planted in serried ranks. They have broken free. Passing them today I noticed a single daffodil flowering. It brought on a haiku
Just one daffodil
in a crocus plantation
defiantly rogue
#crocus#daffodil#nature#haiku
As @oxfamgb.bsky.social makes clear, Israel’s decision to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians Gaza is “a reckless act of collective punishment, and is explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law”. Full Oxfam statement here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/yf84ug/
cold winds and sunshine
crocuses turn their faces
up to the blue sky
#nature#crocus#spring#scotland
The Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
By what mechanics
do the Botanics
make us into romantics,
put us at ease
under their trees?
It’s no hocus pocus -
just a hill of white crocus
"Singing in the dark times."
Launching today, North Sea Poets - online poetry workshops, masterclasses and webinars:
northseapoets.com/about
North Berwick Happiness
A day out, a sandy beach, blue sky,
seaweed, sea glass, shells and wispy cloud,
the sounds of the waves and the seagulls’ cry.
With just a TINY tax on those with the broadest shoulders, we could have lower energy bills and cheaper public transport.
France have just voted for a tax on the super-rich. So what's the UK waiting for?
Add your name to demand a better future for us all. 👇 act.gp/4bk7NBS
Good poem! The / interrupted lines don’t always work for me but here they did. Wounds / Griefs / Losses are after all such fractures in our existence.
Wound I.
by Shilo Niziolek
“how we hold it in our bodies / how our bodies can reproduce it in spectacular and horrifying ways / when we grieve, …”
