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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 13h

This woman is toxic. The Labour Party should be ashamed of itself

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 13h

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

@erinemilyann.bsky.social is a Canadian poet currently based in the Orkney Islands. Her first collection of poetry, A History of Touch, was published by Guernica Editions (Toronto) in 2022.

The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social · 17h

I wanted to share this exquisite poem by Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social because it touches a deep place of longing every time I read it…

May we all live are lives to the fullest without regret 💗

baitthelines.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-po...

a poem for Salem’s poem

a poem for Salem’s poem the booming of whale song hooves across the savanna the screech of a raptor a breath at sunset moonsong above the...

baitthelines.blogspot.com

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @longbarrowpress.bsky.social this book is beautiful.

Book cover of Truth, Justice and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 1d

Change of attitude…

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

For the first time in years, senior Labour figures are saying it plainly.

Wes Streeting: “I’m glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak.”
Keir Starmer: “They lied to this country, unleashed chaos, and walked away after Brexit.”

The silence is breaking. The damage is undeniable.

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Colleen @wildplumbay.bsky.social · 1d

@greenparty.org.uk Go Green.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Off to Bristol tomorrow for a day with the family. Busy cooking so that life will be a bit easier once we are there and I can leave them with something tasty to stick in the oven later.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 1d

Ethnic cleansing is happening in the #WestBank.

In #MasaferYatta, 85% of homes have been demolished.

More from Celine, Project Coordinator and Frederieke, Humanitarian Affairs Manager:

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

"I chose not to attend this festival full of chauvinist and militaristic approaches."

Palestinian politician and activist Aida Touma Suleiman spoke to @krishgm.bsky.social about the peace deal which took place in Israel's Knesset.

Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/trump-p...

Trump ‘proud of fact he fuelled’ war, says Palestinian member of Knesset

We spoke to Palestinian politician and activist Aida Touma Suleiman.

www.channel4.com

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 1d

fathers 🖤

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

'My sleep has been bad since Sunday, slow to come, then broken, and the day starts with something missing. Lorry, van, flatbed truck.'

'Unrecovered Time': an account of a day's walk from Leeds to Goole (lightly revised from the recent Bluesky thread)
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...

Fuel storage tanks at the depot on Fleet Lane near Woodlesford, West Yorkshire.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

It’s about time

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 2d

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 2d

The Red Poppy
Louise Glück (in memoriam)

Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 5d

On #worldmentalhealthday a thank you to whatever poetry is and what it has done to heal my mental health, hoping poetry heals yours

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 2d

📖BOOK EVENT📖

Book your ticket today to hear @thelrm.bsky.social speak at Juno Books

🗓️ Sat, Oct 18
⏰ 10:30 am
📍 Juno Books
www.outsavvy.com/event/30015/...

Feminist Act of Walking with Morag Rose Tickets - Sheffield - OutSavvy

Join Morag Rose on a walking tour of Sheffield exploring the feminist history we don't normally get to experience…The allure of the city is powerful, but not universally accessible. For many women,…

www.outsavvy.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting Peace

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 2d

Most pleasantly surprised and more than chuffed to receive this commendation of my 2022 collection: "As Folktaleteller". Thank you, Carolyn.
bsky.app/profile/caro...

Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

A #LifttotheSky for this amazing collection of sonnets by the brilliant Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social who contributes so much to the #poetrycommunity. Published in 2022, but new to me, it explores myth and legend with grace and wit
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 2d

A #LifttotheSky for this powerful new collection by the splendid Merril D Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 2d

We love you and appreciate you. Take the time to heal, poetry will wait for you and will help you on the way

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 3d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@merrildsmith.bsky.social is a poet in New Jersey. Her collection, River Ghosts was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month. Her new collection is, Held Inside the Folds of Time.

The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 3d

Making plans for January in Canada. 🇨🇦 Lovely chat with Canadian son tonight. Next weekend he has his first training weekend for mountain rescue

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Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social · 3d

This is tomorrow night in Norwich!

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