Keith Jebb

Keith Jebb

@keithjebb.bsky.social

Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.

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Brian Bilston
@brianbilston.bsky.social

Thanks to those of you who braved the elements to head out and see me in Aberdeen on Friday & Stirling last night. Your commitment to the cause of poetry is highly commendable. Next week, it’s Stamford, Bury St Edmunds, Corsham & the first of my Oxford shows. brianbilston.com/events/

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Neil Mackay
@neilmackay.bsky.social

I guess it takes a lot of water to wash a conscience like that clean

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

mirror.co.ukSuella Braverman claims huge taxpayer-funded water bill equal to 18 baths a dayEXCLUSIVE: Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her utility bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook

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East Anglia Bylines
@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Defra’s own Nature Security Assessment links ecosystem collapse to UK national security. Food systems, water security and economic stability all depend on functioning ecosystems. This deserves far more public discussion, writes Cllr Gary Champion

eastangliabylines.co.ukAre we being told enough about the ecological collapse?Behind Whitehall’s closed doors, ecological collapse is being treated as a security threat that leaves communities unprepared for the future
Keith Jebb
@keithjebb.bsky.social

💔Tragic: swifts are finding their chicks dumped in skips and their nests blocked up by building work. 🚨We need an emergency system that forces police & councils to act IMMEDIATELY when nests are threatened. Sign the petition now 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

you.38degrees.org.ukSave swift nests before building work blocks or obstructs themSwifts are in trouble. Their UK breeding population fell by 70% between 1995 and 2024, and they are now on the UK Red List of birds of conservation concern. When a swift's nest entrance is blocked, e...

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Marwood
@andmarwood.bsky.social

Dystopian future movie reality: War is good for sociopaths looking to do business.

Euronews@euronews.com

Drones and AI on display as Milipol Qatar draws global security firms ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/o412

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Dr Naomi Scott
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social

Your regular reminder that the Teaching Excellence Framework does not in fact evaluate teaching quality, but uses a bunch of proxy metrics that have bugger all to do with teaching quality.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'Revised proposals for the new English quality system unveiled on 22 October will see those dubbed below par subjected to harsher sanctions than first planned, with enforced reductions on student recruitment being mooted.'

timeshighereducation.comStudent recruitment cuts at poor performers as TEF ‘given teeth’Providers awarded ‘requires improvement’ rating to have cohorts reduced by 10 per cent a year as new OfS chief executives get tough on poor-quality provision

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Sam Bellamy
@sambdesk.bsky.social

My latest: "Trump claims, with a straight face, that buying diesel from Russia is necessary because Ukraine has driven up prices by continuing to resist Putin’s invasion. Trump also insists that his own war with Iran has nothing to do with diesel hitting record highs of over $6 a gallon." Free link.

fightthefire.substack.comTo Russia, with Trumpy lovePutin gets billions from U.S. to fund his war on Ukraine - and Iran’s fight against U.S.
Keith Jebb
@keithjebb.bsky.social

Big UK banks pocketed £29.2bn in six months while our bills went up! A windfall tax on bank profits would raise £19bn for our schools & NHS. But banks and their lobbyists are trying to hard to block this. Sign the petition today,tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

you.38degrees.org.uk#TaxTheBanksYears of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
Keith Jebb
@keithjebb.bsky.social

If a police officer is jailed for corruption, their past cases are NOT reviewed. Winston Trew was framed and spent nearly 50 years clearing his name. Sign to back #TrewsLaw 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ju...

you.38degrees.org.ukJustice for victims of corrupt police officersWinston Trew was framed by a racist and corrupt police officer in 1972. It took nearly 50 years to clear his name. Thirteen people framed by the same officer spent a combined 623 years wrongfully conv...

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Gillian White
@gillywhite8.bsky.social

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it hallucinated a book called The Invention of Race in the Enlightenment by Nicolas de Warren; it invented claims linked to articles that on further (wasted ) time turned out to have almost nothing to do with those claims. How can I turn it off???

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Gillian White
@gillywhite8.bsky.social

after a day being offered “hallucinated” fake book titles and very poor summaries and half-baked answers by the Google AI assistant forced upon me in every search, I suggest we not let it “build” or “solve” or “innovate” anything for us.

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hookland.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social

Thomas is one of the few people I have ever taken to Hookland’s Ashcourt Necropolis. Nice to see a little of it represented so beautifully.

Thomas S Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@tomsbrown.bsky.social

Personally significant detail of the cover art for The Kith of the Elf Folk and others, from a walk in the necropolis with @cultauthor.bsky.social tangling Lord Dunsany and @hookland.bsky.social . (or shining an autumn light on the entanglement)

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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comPalantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George MonbiotTom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Adam Roberts
@adamroberts.bsky.social

People in a Medieval or Anglo-Saxon world, or any world based thereupon, eating potatoes. YES TOLKIEN, I'M LOOKING AT YOU.

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.

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Adam Roberts
@adamroberts.bsky.social

Milo believed in the Tollbooth, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And one fine morning — So we beat on, booths against the current, borne back ceaselessly into Dictionopolis.

The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes@phantomtollbot.bsky.social

Where the tollbooth had been just the night before, there was now nothing at all. He searched frantically throughout the apartment, but it had vanished just as mysteriously as it had come—and in its place was another bright-blue envelope, which was addressed simply: "FOR MILO, WHO NOW KNOWS THE WAY"