Church steeple under a red sky

Tickets are going quickly for our first visit to The Edge Arts Centre in #MuchWenlock, #Shropshire, on Sat 21 November.

'The Oratory'
A chilling tale from #WeepingBank - the acclaimed ghost story experience, bridging the gap between page and stage.

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The best thing about having written a book, I think, is hearing from people who have enjoyed it. I’m always glad and grateful to hear from readers. Upon A White Horse is out in paperback on April 23, but preorders are already arriving.

Outreach Clinics - Prisoners' Advice Service PAS’ caseworkers run two types of Outreach Clinics within prisons across England and Wales: One-to-one legal advice clinics and legal education sessions for groups. In 2025-26, we delivered 59 legal…

Throughout 2025-26, Caseworkers delivered 59 #Legal #Outreach Clinics to 359 #prisoners - including 78 #women and 46 #foreignnationals.

[Bloomsbury bookshop by H. W. Fincham (ca. 1926)]

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

~Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting)

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

I hope Vance's couch has a migraine tonight

One thing I’m thinking about this evening is the extent to which the enormous bravery and sacrifice of the Ukraine people in facing down Russian threats - first electorally & subsequently militarily - blunted the appeal of pound-shop autocrats with a line to the Kremlin and revealed their corruption

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

Tory / Lib Dem #austerity was never good economics. It was an ideological drive to shrink the state by a rich, out of touch elite that destroyed lives and broke society.

‘If they scrap IMBs, who’ll sort things out in prisons?’ After Inside Time revealed Government plans to merge three watchdog bodies responsible for monitoring prisons, concerns have been raised by prisoners, staff in jails, and charities. We exclusively …

"While the details of this merger remain to be seen, we are concerned about its potential impact on accountability and oversight in the criminal justice system as a whole."

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Activists hold sign TYRANT

Today, the people of #Hungary toppled their tyrant.
America, our return to democracy requires our full attention.
We can see it can be done!

Lets hope jd vance campaigns for Reform in Britain

Tim Curry & Meat Loaf bts photo - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) movie

Meat Loaf & Tim Curry.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Behind the scenes 📸

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

Orban: “Too many people are voting” — the plaint of kleptocratic vote suppressors and gerrymanderers the world over…

And yes I am looking at you GOP

Can Vance visit Netanyahu next

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Ukraine is about to get an awful lot of European money. No more Cunt's Veto. A potential turning point in the battle against Russian imperialism.

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

'We don't want ID cards but we do want more information on them'

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OUT MONDAY 13.04

📸Tom Pallant

Librarians at the Bangor Public Library changed my life. They let me take out books from the adult section and read there for hours. It was nearly across the street from where I grew up. Amazing and beautiful place, and wonderful librarians.

Years ago, my mother-in-law started reading The Exorcist. She said it was the most evil book she’d ever read, so she threw it into the sea. I bought another copy, soaked it, and left it by her bed.

There are 87,292 people in prison today, a fall of 418 on last week.

Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect The government hopes it will ease the population crisis in prisons.

#Sentences of up to 12 months will now likely be replaced by suspended sentences. #prison #prisoners

London Literature Festival | Southbank Centre Our 2026 London Literature Festival guest curator is Dua Lipa! Yes, that Dua Lipa! Join us, and her, for our annual literary celebration this October.

The London Literature Festival this year will be curated by Dua Lipa, which I think is interesting and potentially quite exciting.

A white poster board sign sporting a checklist - NO KINGS but green checks for books, art, empathy, love, and tacos

Only a few tickets left for my event this Saturday at Farnham Lit fest with @stephmerritt.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social. Come along if you’re in Kent or nearby or actually far away. Make a bloody effort.

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