I am looking forward to both presenting and attending this #Accessible #Book Festival in #Edinburgh this September. Open to all, please share! mykindofbook.org.uk/festival/

Posting this, safe in the knowledge I’ll only have to answer three questions at most…

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

Does anyone have any reading recommendations for creative-critical practice in book history (both terms broadly conceived, as they can only be)? Very accepting of the 're-'s (remaking etc) but also interested in other approaches.

Nauseatingly forgiving obituary from the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Rod Liddle obituary

Provocative journalist whose invective-laden columns targeting the liberal-left were laced with an ebullient humour

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Bought a few books in Cambridge as it would have been rude not to.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

I wonder what odds you can get on Blood Money FC going down this year, given that they’re selling (or have sold) all their half-decent players and have lost their manager too?

Just in case anyone still thought the Conservatives were ever actually against anti-semitism, they’ve selected for a council election a neoNazi with a history of harassing a Jewish MP. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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Hugely revealing to see who’s out defending Rod Lidl: “well, he never beat *me* up when I was pregnant”.

There once was a werewolf in Lidl Who, feeling the urge for a Pidl, Cocked his leg with some guile In the special deal aisle; You know – the one in the Midl.

A reminder to all NHS staff: you are loved, wanted and appreciated by millions of Londoners, and we collectively condemn the vile racism you continue to experience.

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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Have managed the first leg of getting home to Stirling – walking five minutes to the bus stop – and am now awaiting leg two: the local bus to Cambridge. Four trains await me after this…

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Just over six years ago, I stood around this spot and realised that I had a choice between having the career I wanted, and staying in Cambridge.

There once was a werewolf in Lidl Who, feeling the urge for a Pidl, Cocked his leg with some guile In the special deal aisle; You know – the one in the Midl.

Just over six years ago, I stood around this spot and realised that I had a choice between having the career I wanted, and staying in Cambridge.

Increasingly clear that a sizeable chunk of the vote Reform is losing is transferring to Restore not back to the Tories.

Anyway, back in the old place. Maybe half my books were bought from the stalls on this market. Bought some more today.

Walking through central Cambridge - a place I saw as home for thirty years - for the first time in almost five years.

Psychopath glasses working exactly as intended. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".

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Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty

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Alright, weird request, but can anyone point me to academic papers on Police Academy? Ideally the film franchise but will take cartoon series if that's all there is. Have so far found 1 that discusses films in relation to modern representations of police in film but surely there's more than that?!

WRITERS PALS, please tell me about a time your work got ripped apart in track changes, make me feel better

Petition for Allister (sic) Heath to change his name by deed poll to stop polluting other Alastairs by association.

World’s tiniest violin for poor Eddie Howe as he loses his job sanitising murderers at Blood Money FC.

Staying in a beautiful Cambridgeshire village with strong folk horror vibes.

Petition for Allister (sic) Heath to change his name by deed poll to stop polluting other Alastairs by association.

It’s genuinely hard to see how more obviously crooked Reform UK could be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

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“… not the universities side of it, though; ignoring the crisis threatening the entire HE sector was a real drag I’ll be glad to be rid of.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

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