Yes the people's "viral" response to its petition showed "the anger felt" because the people of Essex don’t want their library services to be diminished, undermined or threatened. #saveourlibraries #libraries #freebooks #literacy #equalopportunities
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No library service should charge for reservations - especially as individual library stocks have become so limited.
Please sign to save Essex Libraries’ use. “Between three-quarters and ninety percent of those surveyed said they would either use their library less, or stop using their library altogether” if this charge is in place! #libraries
This is very worrying - the charge should be abandoned.
I found so much admire in our remarkable pets and their ancestors while researching my latest book: a history of dogs for young readers and all curious dog owners. #dogs #whoodle #heros
Will Essex County Council's decision to impose a £1.15 charge for each adult book reservation change how you use Essex Library Service? Please complete the short survey below. #Essex #libraries @BBCEssex docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I've just written to my MP to ask them to prevent GenAI causing irreversible damage to the UK's creative economy and cultural identity.
Will you do the same? Join me to help ensure justice for creators. Click on the link below to write to your MP:
justiceforcreators.eaction.org.uk/write
After many months of research and writing (and years of thinking!) my little history of dogs for children is published today! #Collins #NationalYearOfReading2026 #dogs
“Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality’” What a surprise! I’m astonished at how easily AI wins the trust of so many.
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An intense, deeply personal and moving story about the role of a medical support dog. Dogs are such wonderful creatures. #LifeChanging BBC Radio 4:
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It’s exasperating when an applaudable pro-reading campaign largely ignores the role of public libraries. Why not publicise a resource that already exists. Maybe @thetimes.com is sidestepping the politics of a diminishing statutory public service? #GetBritainReading
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Love this from The Works: a shift to “screen-free focus”. I’m a big fan because research has shown that people absorb and recall more detail after reading print but often only get the gist when reading on screen. www.thebookseller.com/news/reconne...
I’m not embracing the digital ID cards. #NoToDigitalID #NoToOracle www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
Catching up on the week's book news, this article from @thebookseller.com stands out: Inclusion: a commercial imperative’. So much to quote, e.g. "What we publish for children doesn’t just have a five-year impact, it has a generational impact." #inclusion
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Way more now.
Please could you save children from an increasingly authoritarian govt and lobby to halt the digital ID cards. I’m astonished that Labour are suggesting a mandatory attack on privacy - it wasn’t even in the manifesto I voted for!
#LabourPartyConference petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Perhaps conference attendees could sign this and lobby to halt the “mandatory” digital ID cards. How could Labour be so authoritarian. I’m disappointed, again.
#LabourPartyConference petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Perhaps conference attendees could lobby to halt the “mandatory” digital ID cards. Labour appears to be increasingly authoritarian … bitterly disappointing.
#LabourPartyConference petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Perhaps conference attendees could sign this and lobby to halt the “mandatory” from digital ID cards. How could Labour be so authoritarian … bitterly disappointing.
#LabourPartyConference petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID
It’s being called a ‘BritCard’.
“Liberal Democrats cannot support a mandatory digital ID where people are forced to turn over their private data just to go about their daily lives... People shouldn’t be turned into criminals just because they can’t have a digital ID, or choose not to.” — Victoria Collins, Liberal Democrat Science, Innovation and Technology Spokesperson.
Liberal Democrats cannot support mandatory digital IDs. People shouldn't be criminalised just because they don't want to hand over their private data.
