ALL HANDS ON DECK TO #FreePaulWatson 🏴‍☠️🐋 For decades, Captain Paul Watson, who leads Captain Paul Watson Foundation 🐋🏴‍☠️ Foundation, co-founded Greenpeace and founded Sea Shepherd - has stood up for our oceans. Now he needs us to stand up for him. Sign the petition here: paulwatsonfoundation.org

Paul Watson needs our voices. Sign the petition to #FREEPAULWATSON and join the movement to make a real difference. paulwatsonfoundation.org/freepaulwatson/

What we should be ashamed about in this country is the appalling deprivation; lack of education, culture, beauty, self-respect & dignity. Millions should be living better lives. That requires imagination & vast input in teaching, sport, theatre, music, nature, skills etc

Hello — a fundraiser/book drive has been started today to help replace the books & repair shelving destroyed during last night’s attack on the Spellow Lane library in Liverpool. Details here in case you’d like to give/share on: gofund.me/d024718f

Hats off to #SofiaBarton for this fascinating blog - and do click through to Muhammad Ali’s visit to South Shields in 1977

This - from Private Eye - illustrates why it was reasonable to question the sentence lengths given to the Stop Oil protestors The Rest Is Politics

Being ever beginner-minded I don’t judge or teach - but when my alma mater ⁦4th Estate Books⁩ calls… Search begins for new writers of colour as 4thWrite prize opens for entries | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/article/…

It's my Birthday and traditionally I ask for a retweet to get my account out there I'm Siobhan, I'm an NHS nurse and trade unionist who has been actively campaigning on NHS pay and against privatisation since 2020. Nurse for a decade. If that's for you, please give me a follow

Can’t wait.

Why has the British government quietly suspended Chevening scholarships for Afghan students? This programme is needed more than ever as a generation of Afghans - especially women - languish. ⁦David Lammy⁩ hyphenonline.com/2024/08/23/uk-…

I am in awe of Irenosen Okojie’s burden of talent - because you cannot see and write the world like this without cost. Leave your rational mind behind with your phone and enter Curandera’s spell. dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/irenose…

Always so gratifying when a writer you have long admired and enjoyed, is covered in glory. All the laurels to Ferris Jabr

I try to be dignified rather than fan-girling in my admiration for brian, whose brilliant new novel #ThereAreRiversInTheSky I recently read. Then came her introduction to a new edition of #NineteenEightyFour @orwellfoundation and I gave up. open.substack.com/pub/orwellfoun…

Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity. That is why it has launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002. We are witnessing the total erasure of Palestine - and our government is shamefully complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

In case your networks can spread this opportunity for writers of colour. Thank you. Fossil Free Books Hay Festival Sarah Brown School Of International Futures (SOIF) Palestine Solidarity Campaign Prison Libraries Grp Roundhouse @nefertiti35

⁦@mjohnharrison⁩ Found you. Thank you.

So happy to have been elected an Honorary Fellow of my alma mater ⁦Hertford College, Oxford⁩ - a centre of inspiration, multi-disciplinary brilliance, courage and warmth. Thank you ⁦Tom Fletcher⁩ and everyone involved - I’m home 🙏🏽 hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/new-intak…

Thank you, Hertford College, Oxford University of Oxford. A farewell video 👇, with some thanks, emotion, what the students tell me is excessive hand gesturing, and shameless use of props …

Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7001…

We're incredibly excited to be joining Hertford College, Oxford and Oxford Ministry for the Future at this special event at the Sheldonian Theatre. Brian Eno and Kim Stanley Robinson with Laline Paull FRSL and J.M Ledgard on Art, Nature and Science. Free to attend on 28th April