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A lyrical text @johndougherty.bsky.social & @thomasdocherty.bsky.social's expressive illustrations #ItWontBeForEver @quartokids.bsky.social show young children that absence and loss are different. It’s #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dMe

It Won’t Be Forever

It Won’t Be ForeverJohn Dougherty and Thomas DochertyFrances Lincoln Children’s Books At the edge of the forest lives a loving family of eight little fox cubs and their parents, Kit (the mother) an…

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Very sad to hear of the death of Dame Jenni Murray. She was great company back in 2015 at the @EmiratesLitFest in Dubai. @philipardagh.bsky.social @gumdraw.bsky.social @stevecolewriter.bsky.social

I was talking to a book designer on our team yesterday and was able to put to words: “We expect the illustrator to be excellent at making art but they are not expected to be excellent at making books. It’s our job to be excellent at making books, inside and out. The book itself, that is our domain.”

THIS SUNDAY, The Sunday Times has brought back The Funday Times as part of their reading campaign and The Phoenix is involved! The Funday Times was a weekly comic supplement, all big and newspapery, an absolute joy to read and an instrumental part of a lot of our childhoods 🤩

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

The press has got hold of it! Yes we’re making a #bbcghosts movie.

Comps for @philipreeve.bsky.social’s new Mortal Engines novel ‘Bridge of Storms’ have arrived. Out on the 12th, get your preorders in now!

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

Everything is nice and normal

ME: whenever i make fried eggs the yolks break but when i make scrambled eggs they don’t ALANIS MORISSETTE: i’m sorry but the lyrics are already done

I will never understand how Trump was legally able to run in 2024 after trying to strong arm governors to defraud voters, and then, when that didn’t work, a violent coup. We let a traitor re-enter the White House.

Yet another example of the idiocy of the Supreme Court’s immunity opinion: If Trump invades Greenland, even for the most insane reason (like not winning the Nobel Peace Prize) and against our obvious national interest, it’s an “official act” that can never be held legally accountable

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Nearly showtime! Very much looking forward to this.

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop

UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.

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📚 Continuing this year’s BCAW focus on books, we’re sharing a message from author John Dougherty. 💛 His book, A Hare-Shaped Hole, beautifully explores emotional expression and continuing bonds for bereaved children. 👉 More reads: childhoodbereavement.ie/bookshelf #ChildrenGrieveToo #BCAW2025

I’m hearing from a charity that’s reluctant to support an anti-racism event because it’s too “political”. I’m explaining to them that opposing racism wasn’t at all “political” until very recently. Also (1) everything is political but (2) it doesn’t need to be party political. Charity IS Politics.

I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.

If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?

In 1997 Labour won a huge victory. And while campaigning they promised to honour Tory spending pledges for 2 years. Bizarrely they seemed to think the former was in any way based on the latter or that any of us expected them to stick to that, having voted for change. Plus ça change.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Michael@therightarticle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A Brexiter writes...