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Really looking forward to reading Five Leaves Bookshop with Linda Kemp and support from Julie Gardner and Sarah Smith. Thanks to Nottingham Creative Writing Hub at NTU for sorting.

"Brexit has ruined this country, and now the majority of Britons thinks so too." RT if you are that majority.

Five Leaves is my favourite place to read - and this was a very enjoyable evening.

Try watching this without laughing.

Nottingham Stanza met today to discuss 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' by Ian Duhig FRSL. These poems need a bit of work from the reader - but the general consensus was they're definitely worth the effort.

This is off the scale brilliant. ♥️🎶

The Japanese ambassador to the UK wishes everyone a happy St David’s Day with a Welsh cake and daffodil origami. Protect this man at all costs.

I will be there with a stall selling some brilliant poetry pamphlets published by the very wonderful Five Leaves Bookshop.

The longer I work in psychiatry, the more & more I'm reminded that poverty is one of the most harmful factors (if not the most harmful factor) affecting peoples' mental health.

Nottingham Stanza met today to read and talk about the poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah. We also watched some videos of him performing his poetry. A good meeting.

The description of care workers as low skilled is hugely offensive. Not all skills can be taught. The ability to care for vulnerable people with compassion and in a way that protects their dignity is one that should be prized and rewarded to a much greater extent than it is.

The richest 1% own 24% of the UK's wealth. All the immigrants who arrived in the last ten years together own under 1% of the UK's wealth. It is the billionaires who are making you poor, not immigrants. Don't be played for a fool.

These are just 33 of the doctors who died trying to save patients during Covid, Keir Starmer. All but two were migrants, or the children of them. They didn’t take time off work and stay out of danger. They gave their lives for us. WERE THEY STRANGERS?

Rude. I dislike this man more and more.

Not to take away from those with honours in any way, but I’m just going to shout out all those who show services to education day in day out & never get recognised for it All my staff for one, lots of heads I know for two, & esp all those 1:1 TAs working with the most vulnerable

Let's hear more from old women - and maybe less from old men!

My doctoral research is about voice and silence in women's poetry and it's made me notice how often women's voices are silenced, spoken over, ignored and mocked. It would be interesting to know how often women MPs feel this is an issue in HoC.

I know a few men who think like this. I would like them all to read 'The Authority Gap' by Mary Ann Sieghart

I'm reposting this because I understand it and that makes me feel a bit less like an imposter. Also it's funny - and I like Stallings work.

The Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old retired Anglican priest from Bristol, was among 20 people arrested in London today "on suspicion" of supporting Palestine Action. Am I allowed to say she's a hero, or is that banned too? She's a hero. Please share if you agree.