Stolen property.

John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estate

Beautiful news about Keats.
Now the authorities need to raid museums and galleries across the world for the stolen colonial loot which they display & return it to their original owners.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estate

Beautiful news about Keats.
Now the authorities need to raid museums and galleries across the world for the stolen colonial loot which they display & return it to their original owners.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social will have a desk at this poetry Fair on April 25th.

St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry.

CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social will have a desk at this poetry Fair on April 25th.

St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry.

Blake of all poets in literary history would be totally mortified at his house being sold for commercial purposes.
Please share & sign this petition to support the legacy of a great poet & artist.

Blake of all poets in literary history would be totally mortified at his house being sold for commercial purposes.
Please share & sign this petition to support the legacy of a great poet & artist.

Your piece would make an excellent comedy sketch. Or is that not necessary as we already have it on the daily News.

He was open-minded, listened, had an open door and helped me when I arrived in Oxford. As well as being a superb scholar.

I say: Give it up. You have enough words In your life. Try something else - which offers your mind and soul another way of thinking and being.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv

World do not forget the starvation in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I think the percentage off is excellent as many readers simply want a specific book rather than three or more from a Press.

Was that a question or an affirmation?

David Hockney has a massive exhibition in Paris. Everything about his art and him makes me feel elated. Painting in his late eighties, smoking without apology, and free in his sexuality from the start.

Of course, one can go back six hundred years to mark such changes.

History has to be charted not in broad sweeps (five years is a very long time in politics) but with specific yearly changes and cogent developments. America is the perfect crucible to study this. So I disagree that it is only an “intensification”.

Post the Gaza war and the spread of global hyper-Nationalisms and the interventions and collaborations of governments with institutions makes the change over the past few years much more than the visibility of it.

It’s a far far wider persecution now than it was even a year ago.

Oh no, life imitating art & all that. Please let me know if I can do anything tedious, mundane to help. I was singing and slipped down three steps a few weeks ago and it hurt.

Who is the local hero?

The 1% exception doesn’t help its case. I don’t approve of this lending library functioning as an elite club for those who can afford to pay to be a member.