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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Coquet between West Thirston and Felton.

The view through one of the arches of the 14th Century bridge over the Coquet.

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Live footage of the audience as I introduce a poem with the words, “… and this is a new one.”

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 14/09/2026

If you’re wondering why Trump is focused on everything but ending the Iran war as quickly as possible… this might be why. While you pay more at the pump, Donald Trump is getting rich off oil stocks.

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Trump's oil investments have gained millions during Iran war as his accounts keep trading

Donald Trump retained major oil and gas investments as the Iran war has moved energy markets. CNBC analyzed his holdings, trades and estimated gains.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026

What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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fleeglebars @fleeglebars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yep. We have Labour cabinet ministers tiktokking about "small boats coming over here" and giving The Fash dressed in black combat gear free rein to block Dover's streets, while an 84yr old retired reverend is arrested in Parliament Square for protesting against genocide or the oil industry.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If an organisation needed proscribing, it wasn’t Palestine Action.

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Matt Fitz @matt-fitzpatrick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Perfection

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Steinem, who had undergone a secret illegal abortion herself at age 22, told the AP in an email in 2022, reflecting on the reversal of Roe v Wade. “Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we’re not living in a democracy.”

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gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Red, blue and orange knitted tea cosy on brown ceramic teapot

Red, blue and orange book cover: Palomines from Blue Diode

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm always delighted when a bookmark falls out of a new book - & especially when it celebrates 40 years of publishing fine poems & poets! Happy Birthday to @poetrybusiness.bsky.social - the Poetry Business!

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

‘I wish this train would move a bit faster,’ I complain, having just pulled the emergency stop handle.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

TRANSFER WINDOW LATEST! Priti Patel➡️Reform Chris Mason➡️GB News Donald Trump➡️Greenland Rupert Lowe➡️Third Reich Berlin FC Nigel Farage➡️Anywhere But Clacton Ben Stokes➡️‘Shags’Nightclub Basildon Andrew Windsor➡️San Quentin Penitentiary BBC➡️Sky TV Carol Kirkwood➡️El Niño.

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Off to Yorkshire Wildlife Park in a few days so here’s one of several zoo poems I’ve written over the years. It relates a Malden Manor Junior outing to Chessington Zoo in c.1975 or ‘76. From my first collection, The Evening Entertainment (Eyewear), copies of which I have should anyone want one.

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Steven Goldsmith 🦋 @stevengoldsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I truly believe that everyone gets what they deserve. I really hope that Trump gets exactly what he deserves.

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The art of drystone.

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NikkSinc 📚 @nikksinc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dear BBC, in the interests of impartiality (see your Charter), please give updates on LibDem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru etc policies alongside Reform’s. Thank you, a licence payer

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think this is a very worthwhile poetry bursary, and if you know someone who might benefit from it, please do pass this on! @byleaveswelive.bsky.social www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/dymphna-burs...

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Dymphna Bursary (2026)

The Dymphna Bursary is awarded annually to a poet resident in Scotland who identifies as neurodivergent or has a learning disability

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wise public. "Two-thirds of respondents to the poll believe the government should be responding to the extreme heat, drought and wildfires with policy." www.politico.eu/article/poll...

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Poll: British voters underwhelmed by Andy Burnham’s response to drought and wildfires

The intense heat this summer provided the British prime minister’s first big test since taking power a month ago.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So normal has the BBC's both-sidesing of far right talking points become that about half the respondents to this post took it seriously.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📚 IT’S HERE! The full lineup for Off the Shelf Festival of Words 2026 has officially dropped! ✨ Join us in Sheffield from 28 Sept – 25 Oct for world-class authors, live discussions, poetry & more! 🎟️ Explore & book: offtheshelf.org.uk #OTSfest #Sheffield #BookFest

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up at the count since Bobby Sands in 1981.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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.

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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 13/08/2026

ICE entered a small Maine town searching for someone with a removal order. Instead, an officer killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero—who officials admit was not the target. With no body-camera footage, furious protesters are demanding the truth. #Biddeford #ICE #Justice

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ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Who Wasn’t Even Its Target—Then Furious Protesters Flood a Tiny Maine City Demanding Answers

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was reportedly on his way to work when federal immigration officers surrounded the area near his Biddeford home. He was not the person they had come to arrest. Minutes later…

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s so perfect that the first thing Farage does is lie, and it’s about the very thing he claims he took the money for: security. Money well spent , Nigel. Another farrago.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to Mark English on his European gold in Birmingham. I took this photo of Mark English in Donegal a few years back when my son Eoin and a club mate did a forest training session with him.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If @andyburnham.bsky.social were Prime Minister during the Blitz: "There is an urgent problem of bombs falling on London. They appear to be coming out of the sky. We convened a COBRA meeting to discuss it. The root causes of this problem are not something I am prepared to discuss." #ClimateEmergency

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We are very much #TeamMoth too! Lovely

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure raping children is an impeachable offense.

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It would be rude not to post this very fine poem by the late, great Sarah Maguire, from one of my all-time favourite collections The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto & Windus, 2007) - though all her books were brilliant.

The poem ‘Total Eclipse’ by Sarah Maguire.

The cover of The Pomegranates of Kandahar, the 2007 poetry collection by Sarah Maguire.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Such bounty.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Damnation - I gather that, in the print edition, there's a misquotation at the very climax of the piece. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks to The Scotsman and Scottish Poetry Library for today's Poem of the week.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima One of my poems. Ferebee was the bombardier on the Enola Gay Before joining the USAF he hoped to be a baseball player I've read his public statements about the bombing, but public words & private thoughts can differ #poetry #poemoftheday

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