Tell me you don't want to read on...

Oh, and there was a fair chunk of Joyce's 'The Dead' in the snowstorm.

Just got home to find this - by the late Michael Parenti - has arrived.
@leftbookclub.bsky.social
@plutopress.bsky.social

Just finished reading this. Loved the evocation of the London Blitz - with nods to Sarah Waters' 'The Night Watch' inter alia. Less convinced by the magic(k).

The scene in the church on Christmas Eve 1940, however, was immensely moving. Like a grown-up version of the finale to 'The Box of Delights'

Petition: As Trump fuels global chaos, King Charles should not pay him a Royal Visit Stop Trump Coalition

The UK should be strengthening relationships around the world to make new alliances that reduce our dependency on the US, not further cosying up to Trump.

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-no-...

The Food Programme - My Food Hero: Tim Hayward meets Len Deighton - BBC Sounds Best-selling author Len Deighton talks with Tim Hayward about his incredible food story.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Len Deighton's last Cookstrip - in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Food Monthly, 2021

@allanjenkins21.bsky.social

Defend Ameen Hadi and Salford City UNISON Defend Ameen Hadi and Salford City UNISON against the Far Right We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with trade unionist and lifelong anti racist campaigner Ameen Hadi. He has been placed unde...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Defend Ameen Hadi and Salford City UNISON. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

What's really bothering me is that I thought Habermas had died some time last year

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Sylvia Townsend Warner Fundraising Appeal | Dorset Archives Trust Dorset Archives Trust isleading a fundraising appeal to bring the Archive of writer and LGBTQ+ pioneerSylvia Townsend Warner(1893-1978) into the public domain through the creation of a full catalogue....

Here's the direct link. Hope the campaign succeeds! www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...

Trade Unionists - add your name now Add your name to the trade union statement against the illegal war on Iran.

I've signed the trade union statement against the illegal war on Iran

Backed by 18 national organisations

Add your name > actionnetwork.org/forms/trade-...

#NoWarOnIran

Funds sought to open archive of renowned Dorset writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer Dorset Archives Trust launches £48,000 appeal to catalogue and digitise Sylvia Townsend Warner archive, preserving the Dorset author and LGBTQ+…

Dorset Archives Trust (DAT) hopes to raise £48,000 to catalogue and open up the full archive of Sylvia Townsend Warner, the author, poet, and LGBTQ+ pioneer who lived much of her life in Dorset.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2590162...

David Bowie
Died 10th January 2016

Fergus Greer
bromide fibre print, 2001
Nationak Portrait Gallery

Geopolitics, Resistance and the Battle for Venezuela: A Conversation with Atilio Borón Political theorist Borón provides a comprehensive analysis of Washington’s new military activity in the Caribbean and how to resist it.

progressive.international/wire/2025-12...

Report: There Still Time To Convert To Christianity Before Christmas Starts DURHAM, NC—Noting that adopting the religious belief system would allow individuals to fully enjoy the holiday season in all of its glory, a report released Tuesday by the Duke Divinity School reveale...

Report: There Still Time To Convert To Christianity Before Christmas Starts — theonion.com/report-there...

The Karl Marx of Music Composer Hanns Eisler was a lifelong communist and self-described Jacobin. His music provided the soundtrack for both the tragedies and triumphs of German antifascism.

Composer Hanns Eisler was a lifelong communist and self-described Jacobin. His music provided the soundtrack for both the tragedies and triumphs of German antifascism.

jacobin.com/2018/10/hann...

That's the edition I first read: just seeing the cover and I'm 12 again

Book Talk, Resisting Erasure. Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. With Authors: Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox and Rafeef Ziadah.

ONE WEEK TO GO 👇
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
@versobooks.bsky.social

Locals fight for future of A36 footbridge set to be demolished and not replaced Unpopular plans to demolish an ageing footbridge over the A36 in Salisbury are being fought by locals. A second footbridge will be knocked down and…

Save the Wyndham Road footbridge

www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2561899...

@garyseconomics.bsky.social : "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger and a bigger share in economies with almost no growth and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"

Brian Eno: "I'd like the whole taxation system to be fairer, which means rich people paying more tax and poor people paying less tax... people know that somethings wrong, they know that rich people don't pay much tax compared to their incomes"

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

William Morris - artist, poet, designer, craftsman & socialist

Died 3rd October 1896, aged 62

His doctor famously stated that his death was "simply being William Morris and having done more work than most ten men".

Gardening jobs for October

Blowy Bournemouth this morning

Blowy Bournemouth

For Bertolt Brecht, War Isn’t Humanity’s Eternal Fate With Europe in ruins in 1945, Bertolt Brecht wrote that war “has been discredited for some time to come.” That period seems to be meeting its end, as European states push a new era of rearmament.

jacobin.com/2025/08/brec...

Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge

The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!

Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!