David Kendall
@manwithbooks.bsky.social
Big Issue #changemaker, Co-director of Penned Up https://pennedup.org.uk/ - a literary festival curated with people in prison for people in prison.
Florida: Palm Beach County parents haven’t submitted objections to any school library books for the past two years. The district is reviewing hundreds of them anyway. https://www.wlrn.org/education/2026-10-22/palm-beach-county-schools-banned-books-libraries
Under state pressure, Palm Beach County schools pull and review 1,800 library books
Although parents haven’t submitted objections to library books for the past two years, the district is acting after an onerous state directive last month quietly shifted the initiative on book bans to...
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Fifty years after punk “explodes”; high time, therefore to write about the man who started it all, Edward Burra, for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Picking a Quarrel: The death of Edward Burra and the birth of British punk | The Quietus
Edward Burra died on the same day the UK's first punk rock single – New Rose by the Damned – was released. Richard Foster investigates
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A letter from LandWorks Director Chris Parsons has been published in The Guardian in response to their recent editorial on rehabilitation. The government could draw on models in the voluntary sector more... www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/18/what-gets-in-the-way-of-prisoners-rehabilitation
What gets in the way of prisoners’ rehabilitation | Letters
Letters: Anthony Goodman argues that probation officers have increasingly lost their autonomy, while Joe Sim says rehabilitation will not work in a society divided by brutal social divisions. Plus let...
theguardian.com
Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps
Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network
ft.com
As a tribute to Tom Stoppard and Patrick Dromgoole @wshed.bsky.social is showing on 21 November the 1964 six-part series about Bristol, The Newcomers. Stoppard appears in four episodes (well before he became famous for his plays). Dromgoole / who rolls a joint in The Newcomers - went on to head HTV.
The Newcomers
The Newcomers presents a unique view of the city in the early 1960s – a time of great social, cultural, political and economic change. This series now stands as a kind of filmic time capsule of the ci...
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Sagal has run a positive and inclusive campaign in Holborn & St Pancras. She will be a dedicated local MP. Today ✅Vote hope ✅Vote Sagal ABDI-WALI ✅Vote Labour🌹 @westbranchlabour.bsky.social @camdenlabour.bsky.social
The Berlin mania for graffitiing everything: part 2662752778
The most banned book in the 2025-2026 school year, according to the PEN America Index of School Book Bans, is Patricia McCormick’s Sold, a novel about child trafficking. See more of the most-banned books in American schools at: https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2026/ #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek
What does it look like when a government starts banning words? Word Wipe, new from @defendresearch.bsky.social and PEN America for #FallofFreedom, gives you a virtual way to find out. See for yourself at: www.defendresearch.org/projects/wor...
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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Another pantomime, another villain Today the Executive of #Somerset Council met in #Frome for the fourth time to decide the fate of the #Saxonvale site. The outcome has left local people furious. somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/another-ap...
Another pantomime, another villain
Today the Executive of Somerset Council met in Frome for the fourth time to decide the fate of the Saxonvale site. The outcome has left local people furious.
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Gotta love those Lib Dems and their strong sense of supporting communities to build power and put people in control! Oh. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
For every piece of positive community ownership news - like the recent progress made by the Buy Back Brixton campaign - there is often something more dispiriting lurking round the corner. This had the potential to be one of the most exciting community-led developments in the country.
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
"Within two minutes of Somerset council announcing the identity of the preferred bidder – Newcore Capital – at the end of an impassioned meeting, it had issued a full press release on the deal. Less than 15 minutes later, Newcore released its own press release." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
Awful. Capital overrides communities once again. Frome's bid for a community-led housing & regeneration project at Saxonvale lies in tatters: the council's agreed a deal with a London-based real estate company instead. Similar story in Totnes with Atmos project www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
The people of Frome have been stitched up. 'Within two minutes of Somerset council announcing the identity of the preferred bidder, it had issued a full press release on the deal. Less than 15 minutes later, Soho-based Newcore released its own press release.' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
The @libdems.org.uk at Frome have given a two fingered salute to their employers - local taxpayers - by selling out to a London property developer. Local politics done to -not with- local people. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
theguardian.com
An AI risk I worry about is the huge range of tasks where 'sure, an expert can get an AI to do this for them' becomes 'I, a non-expert, asked an AI to do it for them'.
What are the risks of using AI to draft my will?
I don’t have complicated financial affairs but am worried about making a mistake
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While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
To me, the most eye-opening bit of this recent Reform scandal is that these knobheads literally say that the reason they need foreign money is because British people won’t support them.
'For every #prisoner released, another is being sent back.' www.prisonadvice.org.uk/latest/news/...
Prison recall rate reaches record high amid prison overcrowding crisis
New prison recall statistics show more people are being sent back to prison than are being released. Pact warns that rising recalls are an overlooked driver of prison overcrowding and capacity…
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Criminal slumlord Jared Kushner’s corrupt $5B resort plan in Albania has all but effectively collapsed after the country froze all of his assets that are tied with his money laundering project. Good. Well done to the Albanian people who refused to see this happen.
NATO vowed to urgently supply air defenses to Ukraine as Zelenskyy warned Russia is ramping up missile production and Poland considers intercepting Russian missiles.
NATO Pledges Urgent Air Defenses as Zelenskyy Warns of Missile Surge
NATO vowed to urgently supply air defenses to Ukraine as Zelenskyy warned Russia is ramping up missile production and Poland considers intercepting Russian missiles.
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Cambridge OCR set text for English Literature and Language A Level from this September. Hoorah for Common People!
