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Submissions to this year's Moth Poetry Prize – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem – are now open. There's €11,000 up for grabs if your poem catches the eye of this year's judge, Fiona Benson! Closing 31 December. 🌟 bit.ly/mothpoetry24

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

I simply love these Christmas pudding record greeting cards by the immensely talented Manchester based Gail Myerscough - if you love #MidCenturyModern, atomic era design, you've got to check out her stuff. Beautifully packaged too - thanks Gail! #MCM #MCR

🚨Breaking: The Israeli army has killed Rani Qasem Al-Barqouni, a pillar of physics in #Gaza, along with his children, Qasem and Menna, in a ruthless bombardment that devastated northern Gaza.

I am at the blue place as vicky mackenzie, see y'all there for books, cats and mystics!

Hey guys. Something escapist and delightful that I've made with Victoria Ferran ✨🔮 and the Just Radio Ltd team comes out on 19th November. May include conches played in a long barrow, standing stones and Neolithic hi-jinks in Anglesey.

Look lively #Belfast types, this will be great! Tonight!

“It’s enormous but I would have preferred it twice the size.” High praise ⁦London Review Bookshop⁩ for They Went to Portugal by Rose Macaulay (new edition published by ⁦@DauntBooksPub⁩ with my intro) 🧡☀️

Really smashed the elite there guys.

The ten richest people in the US added $64billion to their wealth on the back of Trump win and Mogg continues to pretend people like him are on the side of the people against the elite. Same trick with Brexit after which of course he shipped his cash to 🇮🇪

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

The foreign secretary has not yet condemned Israel's ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in North Gaza.

I hate anti-Semitism. I hate anti-Arab racism. In fact, I hate racism of any kind. I hate thuggery ruining the beautiful game. But most of all, I hate the fact children & women are being killed while the world watches on. Worse, so many governments are complicit. For shame.

IPC alert today. Famine is kicking in. Food systems have collapsed in Gaza. Food access is non existent. Israel has intensified its attacks on health and nutrition care facilities as part of its depopulation plans. UNRWA has been banned. Matter of days. x.com/theIPCinfo/sta…

"Never wear tight trousers. Always buy trousers at least one waist size too big, make sure that the pockets are big enough to comfortably hold penknife, hanky, string, phone, pencil, labels and perhaps a mint or two." —Monty Don, British horticulturalist and human Peter Rabbit

Everything in the autumn Poetry London is superb. This one I keep coming back to

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…