I spent last year taking Chekhov on dates and finally we got married. Enormously grateful to Ian McMillan for liking this crazy love poem well enough to award it 2nd prize in The Rialto's Nature & Place competition. Final line comes from The Cherry Orchard, Act 2.

‘Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is, of course, the very essence of prejudice.’ New essay on Britain’s ugly anti-trans moral panic:

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Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

A v nervous first ever toe in the water for TopTweetTuesday / Matthew M C Smith and on a recent family funeral. Wasn’t sure to count title or not 😳 Appreciate any tips to improve 🤞

Who agrees with Morgan Freeman? ✋️

My 80 word - 12 word poems for ⁦TopTweetTuesday⁩ with ⁦marcelle newbold poems⁩ as host (enjoy the day) stem from recent week spent in Yorkshire Dales.

For the ‘two version’ challenge TopTweetTuesday here’s an account of my experiences at the weekend. Worth saying that my 8 year-old grand-daughter had a great time! Thanks to marcelle newbold poems for hosting. #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

Next week's host is asking for quirky, inventive or profound poems of 42 words with a theme of silence.

Another really thoughtful challenge set for this week. Tried a few attempts but a hectic busy few days and my heads a whirligig! 🤣 Hi Sue Finch (she/her) here’s my TopTweetTuesday effort #poet #writer #silence #theme

Thanks to the poets of TopTweetTuesday I have been served a slice of silence, heard the static crackle, and touched my hand to the vibration of its echoes. Silence has been present, and absent and it has spoken in the silence of sparrows. I will check back in after tea...

Fuck the Fuck Off with this.

🔥 16 hottest education related research papers from the last 8 weeks: (all open source 🔓) ↓

🚨Ausubel-Hirsch connection 🧵 Hirsch claims, “Major gaps in local guidelines, become major gaps in student minds.” 💯 What if guidelines were organized similar to Ausubel’s “body of knowledge” structure consisting of key concepts and propositions? What that might look like👇

Eric Idle: “Brexit was just a terrible con, it was a real con, and (the fact) that Nigel Farago (Farage) still exists anywhere and is taken seriously is appalling to me.” Eric Idle standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebr…

It was a great week to be Labour. Votes at 16 rightly grabbed the headlines, but there was plenty more good news for progressives. 7 things to celebrate: 🧵

Always worth sharing this before the holidays.

Please join in or repost so we can cover all counties and help families out this summer! 👇🏼

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I

OPINION: Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…