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Sam Garvan

@garvansam.bsky.social

Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.

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Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Five sales this month (!), yet Longbarrow Press staggers on. Here's an opportunity to pick up an excellent book with a couple of quid off.

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 24 July longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three copies of 'Eely' by Steve Ely on a bed of crumpled paper.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs

Nearly two-thirds of £1.9mn pay package paid by parent company unregulated by Ofwat

ft.com

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Spectator and any rightwing gobshite attempting this line of attack needs to be mocked into oblivion. No one is laughing at the people of Clacton. Everyone is laughing at Farage for his idiotic crybaby strop that now has him competing with a bin. He’s getting all the respect he deserves.

The Spectator @spectator X.com It's the simmering classism of the Clacton mockers that is most annoying. Watching plummy London leftists squeal over a possible Count Binface victory is enough to make you gag. Clacton is a real place with real people. These are struggling people of the working class, who voted for Brexit and are concerned about successive governments' abandonment of Britain's borders. Their town is not a moral playpen for smug outsiders to act out their haughty disregard for Nigel Farage. Show some respect, for the people of Clacton and for England's hard-won democracy. • Brendan O'Neill
Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Portrait of a Lady: exquisite, sculptural beauty, with lowered gaze, translucent veil, clasped hands of prayer; oil on oak panel, c 1460 by Rogier van der Weyden, influential Flemish artist, pupil of Robert Campin, court painter to Duke of Burgundy; died in Brussels #OTD 1464. ALT NGA DC

The triangular composition, with geometric folds of linen veil contrasting with the dark background, foreshadows abstract modernism National Gallery, Washington DC
Ian Duhig@ianduhig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death. Rue Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions. No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial. I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called ‘herb of grace’ because it was used in exorcisms, by the angel to clean Adam’s eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.
Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven’t already.

More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. This motion is currently the only available mechanism by which MPs can reject the EHRC's Code of Practice; if debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the EHRC from issuing the Code and bringing it into force. This is unfortunately unlikely, but it is important that as many MPs as possible sign the motion. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven't already.
Alison Brackenbury@abrackenbury.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Village', my new non-fiction prose book, features witches, wheelbarrows & cheerful survival-especially of women.The villagers dictated the blurb in the image! Kindle/phone/computer edition only 99p! Generous paperback £9.99.Only via Amazon. SEARCH FOR ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

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