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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 6h

Jacqueline Rose, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2026, has announced Palestinian playwright, actor, and theatre director, Ali Abu Yasin, as this year’s Writer of Courage. www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

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Jacqueline Rose shares PEN Pinter Prize 2026 with Ali Abu Yasin - News & Events - English PEN

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 6h

Just horrible horrible … but I feel a sense of exhaustion that this was always going to happen (i.e. move here) after trans people have been de facto forced out of playing the sports they love …

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Fare network @farenet.bsky.social · 9h

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The @footballvhomophobia.com campaign says it is “deeply concerned” by new statistics on homophobia in grassroots football and the lack of charging of perpetrators. FA data shows homophobia in grassroots football rose by more than 35% last season. sportsmedialgbt.com/grassroots-f...

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Big rise in homophobia reports in grassroots football, only small increase in FA charges

Football Association data shows nearly 1,000 serious case allegations relating to sexual orientation in grassroots game in England in 2025/26; charges for this type of discrimination up by just over 2...

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 7h

Is this real or just an AI hallucination?

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 7h

Bizarre decisions around Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking. I mean, how much money is that actually going to save?!?

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 7h

An absolute scandal this. & I’ve been a devoted listener. To cancel BBCFreeThinking & Thinking Allowed signals a dangerous abandonment of ideas & the life of the mind in a period when both are imperilled by irrationalists, conspiracists, demagogues. They will gloat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 13h

25 years ago a friend gave me The Beauty of the Husband, and I fell in love with Carson's work, devouring Eros the Bittersweet, The Autobiography of Red, her translations of Euripides and Sappho and the many essays and poems she's written since. Great news on a grey day.

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Anne Carson wins the Nobel prize in literature 2026

The world’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet Anne Carson, known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 13h

Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...

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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17h

I learnt this by heart as a teenager. I still feel so grateful to her for her vision and her courage. A prayer. And, as they say, an eye-opener.

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 17h

I basically listen to Paul Temple so that I can do (even more ridiculous) impersonations of every character in real time …

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 19h

Is this Diane Seuss, just letting go, after years of self-denial in the face of oodles of human blood

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 20h

Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.342/365 The final countdown!

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

@with1v.bsky.social Can you help get the word out? I don’t think Rachel is coming that close to Bedford but I know you have networks …

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In another reminder that I have become old and grumpy I have, as a result of reading an article on BBC news site, just discovered the phrase ‘third space’ and its ‘meaning’, and I just want to scream. I am just bewildered by the world.

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In #FoodNews, I have now tried M & S’s Custard Cream Spread and I can unequivocally announce they have completed food …

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Explanation - one of the main concerns was that any Jewish member, or even any synagogue, supporting a two state solution, would be considered racist (because one of those states would be Israel). That's most left wing UK Jews. The amendment to address that concern was voted down.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m hearing that Tesco is saying trans employees must use gender neutral/disabled toilets. This is not legal. Talk to GLP or Translucent if you are in this situation.

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sh, but what if they don’t turn up? My mind could always find something to panic about

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ferdinand Mount in @lrb.co.uk reminding us that 28,000 have died trying to cross the Med since 2014 ‘the death toll of a medium-sized war’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah, a bit of a classic. Have you come across the snark known as ‘Lost in the Marsh’? The phenomenon of Ngaio losing her way in the middle of many of her novels?

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This ad in the @churchtimes.bsky.social brought me joy … though how did this pass copy-editing checks at the school? A.I. generated? Fan of Silent Cinema? I love the idea that the school has a permanent Charlie Chaplin impersonator…

Ad in Church Times for a ‘School Chaplin’

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s a question for me to address with my therapist

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a great opportunity to dive into the @carcanet.bsky.social catalogue … some extraordinary poets + me …

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day! 📚 We're offering 25% off EVERYTHING, all week! Head to our website checkout and use the code POETRYWEEK: www.carcanet.co.uk/search-resul...

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m going for publication order. I loved The Man in the Brown Suit (never read it before). Anne Beddingfeld for the win …

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