Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Summertime silence

The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...

businessgreen.com

Our leaders are deaf to public fear and anger. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

It is Time to Storm the Gates of Private Power

if humanity is to address the question of survival.

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In the relative privacy of bsky, here is mum (right) with her mum, auntie and cousin.

Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...

New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.

excellent! Let me know how you get on when you do. The Quietus ran a brief excerpt if you want a taster: thequietus.com/culture/book...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab's 'Super-Electric' | The Quietus

Ben Cardew's new book, Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs, recounts the tale of Stereolab in 20 songs that represent certain vital aspects of the band’s make up (from ro...

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Good and wide-ranging writing by Jenny Turner on Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It builds a discussion of what she finds difficult, alongside (late in the essay) actual encounters with young readers in Scotland, whose broad identification with the novels is still intense. #LewisGrassicGibbon #reading

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble “a meandering, live thought-process”, as Ali Smith puts it: “poetic and realist and soaring and dark and local and strange all at once”.’ Jenny Turner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sea-lavenders at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR this week... Swathes of Common Sea-lavender painting the saltmarsh purple; a potential hybrid with Lax-flowered Sea-lavender; and two species of rock sea-lavender on the saltmarsh-dune interface. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Flower bed empty, Yarrow flourishing. Chatham, by the Waghorn monument. A week late for #StillFlowering - anyone able to infuence management of public areas of grass shd be looking at what copes with climate breakdown. Lots of Lady's Bedstraw flowering here too. #WildflowerHour #KentWildlife

Friday night post still relevant saturday night

AC Fick 📚@acfick72.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagination has a history. There are changing and conflicting interpretations of what it is and of its value. Imagination also has a structure, at once grammatical and historical, in the tenses of past, present and future. ▫️Raymond Williams, 1983 Friday night in the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🗝🚪🪾🌍🌓

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fully and Faithfully Restore ‘The Mack’

The future international credibility of Glasgow and Scotland in the fields of architecture, education and culture will depend on the delivery of an accurate, faithful and honest restoration of Mackint...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Out and about in High Barnet. This is Domino's pizza, 1892-oo-oo. The front is fancy, a bit Flemish. But the side has an unusal buttressed gable. When does this form (or motif) take flight? I think of it as Arts & Crafts motif. #Victorian #C19 #architecture

if I can get enough likes and shares on this, I'll persuade my boss to do a 10% discount on books for Trans+ Price huns tmrw...

So Mayer@suchmayer.bsky.social · 2w ago

ARE YOU COMING TO TRANS+ PRIDE LONDON TMRW? The amazing bookstore + gallery where I work is literally steps away from Langham Place at 93 Mortimer St. @ibraaz.bsky.social Cafe opens 10 am w/ amazing homemade Tunisian cookies & cake & coffee Books from 11am–6pm Homosexual Intifada? IN STOCK

Very grim choice for immigration minister

Sonia L@sonial77.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.jowhite.uk/news/2025/09...

This is such sad news. I had not seen Christine for way too long. One of the most thoughtful artists I have ever worked with, and someone whose work went on responding to changing times.

Jeremy Millar@jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday we lost one of our better ones, Christine Borland, an artist of rare touch and sensitivity, and one of the kindest, loveliest people you could ever wish to meet. This is how I'll remember her always, a smile on her face, her voice as soft as running water. My love to Ross and the girls. X

Christine Borland, one of the best, is gone, too soon.

Ashley Davies@msashleydavies.bsky.social · 2w ago

So very sad to hear of the death of one of my favourite artists, Christine Borland. I was lucky enough to interview her for Art Uk a few years ago and she was so generous and interesting. artuk.org/discover/sto...

Going to this fundraiser for friends in #ucu at Goldsmiths. The lineup is amazing. #HigherEducation

Goldsmiths UCU@goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Readings by Lola Olufemi and Christine Kirubi, music and visuals by Dubmorphology, and dj sets by Chooc Ly and Raheel Khan! Grab your advance tix: shorturl.at/pfQjs

Discerning publisher is starting a short story prize and catching up on some classics. (A small admission, have read all Mansfield but no Chekhov).

@Galleybeggars@galleybeggars.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some Galley Beggar news - and quick thoughts on Katharine Mansfield: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/n...

'In the future, public policy must recognise private gardens as green infrastructure, not merely private amenities.'

WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · 2w ago

42% of UK garden space has been paved over & that's building urban heat, robbing wildlife of homes + surging runoff into drains, increasing flood risk + sewage discharge. De-pave Your Garden says even just using planting strips on your drive can make a huge difference. share.google/Dkb3FOi35hqp...

oh no www.sundaypost.com/fp/glasgow-s... no no no no no

Glasgow School of Art now only set for a partial rebuild

The iconic Glasgow School of Art building will not be restored to its former glory, but instead will undergo only a partial rebuild.

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Just a few from the Pallant House show, British Landscapes, to 1 Nov. It's a mostly C20 show with a few key forerunners, & opens up unexpected comparisons. John Sell Cotman, Capel Curig, 1807 & Helen Saunders (the Vorticist), represented by a more Braque-inspired Sussex Landscape, Barn & Road, 1912.

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Know Your Enemy

This essay has been on the boil for a while, so bear with.

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1/ Who's running Goldsmiths? Meet the people at the top of Council, the body signing off on mass redundancies. Careerists collecting board seats like they're Pokémon. For them, Goldsmiths is just another line on the CV. 🧵

These are our last No.1 Poultry shows. The Hypha Studios x @recessed.space gallery 2 has been a joy - the charity I run & my publication recessed.space combined to host 8 built-environment exhibitions to create an archicultural space I felt London was missing. hyphastudios.com/hypha-galler...

Alan Powers is a writer I have learnt a lot from & it wd be interesting to see what he says about pattern. Last time we spoke he was planning a book on art schools. Did not know he had written this book on Enid Marx - there's a show at Compton Verney, too. #design #pattern

Lund Humphries@lhartbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

OUT NOW! The extremely popular book 'Enid Marx: The Pleasures of Pattern' by Alan Powers is back! A new paperback edition coincides with the launch of the exhibition The Pattern of Life: Enid Marx and Modern British Design at Compton Verney (18 Jul - 3 Jan 27) www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Every council in Kent and Medway is being abolished. In April 2028, four new authorities will take responsibility for bins, roads, planning, schools, social care, and more. That will affect who makes decisions about your area and how much council tax you pay. The map is settled. Little else is.

Four new councils and a lot of unanswered questions

Four authorities, fourteen councils to unwind, and less than two years to build a new system of local government

kentcurrent.news

www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...: Link for our July Reading Group. We're discussing The Hotel: 29th July, 7pm BST, online. Bowen's sharp, lovely début novel set in Italy. Link in bio 🙌

The C18 was hot. I have proof. (An undated publicity shot, which I treasure). #theatre #C18

Shall be heading there in the next heatwave.

Caroline Goldsmith@goldcaro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Great news everyone. Our Reform-led county council has solved the problem.

'The boots brought the bag up. . . ' Reading Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris, 1935) for the first time in years. Ironic acknowledgments of class, ingenious prose (here, monosyllables). Don't completely like her writing but v interesting to read after Green, Compton-Burnett. #booksky