One of those glorious London weekends when everyone is out and about because the city has opened its doors everywhere and whoosh!
Rishi Dastidar
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If you can bear to tear yourself away from TMS / Sky this morning, we still have a few places at this morning's Chiswick Book Festival event, where we'll be talking the game, politics and poetry: www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...
"Cricket: History, Politics and Poetry" at Theatre at the Tabard
Tickets are now available for Cricket: History, Politics and Poetry at Theatre at the Tabard, London on Saturday 12th September 2026 at 10:30AM. Click the link for further information and to secure yo...
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If you can bear to tear yourself away from TMS / Sky this morning, we still have a few places at this morning's Chiswick Book Festival event, where we'll be talking the game, politics and poetry: www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...
"Cricket: History, Politics and Poetry" at Theatre at the Tabard
Tickets are now available for Cricket: History, Politics and Poetry at Theatre at the Tabard, London on Saturday 12th September 2026 at 10:30AM. Click the link for further information and to secure yo...
ticketsource.com
Unbelievably, Cherry Blossom has made it all the way to Utrecht. Thank you Boekhandel Bijleveld for stocking it. Yes, I squealed.
Unbelievably, Cherry Blossom has made it all the way to Utrecht. Thank you Boekhandel Bijleveld for stocking it. Yes, I squealed.
Guys, we get it. Wodehouse wrote an apt passage about a wannabe fascist in the 1930s. What the hell are you doing to stop the actual wannabe fascist on the streets of London NOW?
Props to Clare for sharing this. Sometimes, some poets are sniffy about why I’m so open about my other career in branding and copywriting. Clare’s figures are part of why.
Clare Pollard@poetclare.bsky.social · 3d agoSo last year LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS came out, my first collection in eight years, and I worked really hard on getting back into the poetry scene. Teaching three residential courses, two online, lots of one-off workshops, mentoring, reviewing regularly, writing a poetry substack… 1/3
Furniture sexism: tall chair for the men. Shorter back for the ladies’ chair ‘to protect their hair’. Seen at Huis Sonneveld.
“Babe, your white heat’s back from its sabbatical.”
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 4d ago"Late Harold Wilson Drab"
Cheese, syrup waffles, open air boat museums. A Gouda day.
*waves* at @mauritshuis.bsky.social. Alas won’t get to pop in to see you this trip. Next time!
This is ‘Girl with a pearl earring’. No really. The basic colour building blocks Vermeer used.
This is ‘Girl with a pearl earring’. No really. The basic colour building blocks Vermeer used.
The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition is out this week, 10th Sept with @canongate.co.uk @nikeshshukla.bsky.social - exactly 10yrs to the day of its 2016 post-Brexit release. I felt like making a bookstack of TGI contributors works @bookshop.org check it out > uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-go...
The Good Immigrant, 10th Anniversary Edition, further reading...
The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain - Canons (Paperback) Publishing this week, September 10th 2026. Edited by Nikesh Shukla with a new introduction by Candice Carty-...
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Ref Dover and Portsmouth, should you have the appetite for learning about the (new, same as the old) fash over breakfast
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 7d agoThe action in Dover came as a surprise because hard right groups are getting better at operating below the radar. There will be more “protests” like this to come ✏️ Matt Muir
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
Just come off stage to see that the Kent constabulary have shares in balaclava manufacturers; that can be the only explanation for why they didn’t wade in, right?
Does the Tyne & Wear Metro does merch? Cos I’d like some.
Does the Tyne & Wear Metro does merch? Cos I’d like some.
Train glory day continues. LNER changes the train were on… two minutes before its due to leave. Incredible.
Trainline, where the robots outnumber the humans a billion to one. Marketing types laud this as one of our more customer-centric brands. Does nothing go wrong with any of their journeys? Are they bots only comfortable talking to other bots? Brand tip: have a sodding telephone number on the website
James Orr / Not just a theological bore / But an alleged breaker of party funding law / Hurry the fuck up out of the door.
Very very uncool of me, but a friend spotted this in the window of Camberwell’s Lala Books, and this might be the closest to hip I will ever get in my life. And next to Virginia too!
