Oh, my heart.

John Burnside's last poem for the London Review of Books:

good to be back on twitter dot com

ONS, 7 Jun "We continued to ask people what they thought were the important issues facing the UK today" 1. Cost of living 87% 2. NHS 85% 3. Economy 68% 4. Crime 60% 5. Housing 57% 6. Climate change/Environment 56% 7. Immigration 52% 8. International conflict 48% 9. Education 46%

"Nigel Farage would like some more attention" is their central story. But they can't really put it like that.

You don’t say!

More than 4 million people under 25 aren’t registered to vote. If you’re fed up of being ignored by national politics do something about it: gov.uk/register-to-vo…

It was the Treasury that demanded the operator cut those services. The Chancellor at the time was Rishi Sunak.

same energy

but I like bananas

The decision by Suella Braverman to get rid of key Windrush pledges in order to prevent the scandal from happening again was unlawful, the High Court has ruled after Windrush scandal victim Trevor Donald who was denied re-entry to the UK for 9 yrs took the Home Office to court

Proud to know you Gulwali, truly one of the best of us.

This will be quite hard as Britain is not a member of the WEF.

Into my veins. Please and thanks.

So let me get this straight. The Prime Minister takes a small number of colleagues into confidence about the election date, and several of them think that means they can make money from a bet? I mean, no wonder their campaign is in a mess, this is weapons-grade stupidity.

Does my Spanish orange cake look beautiful? No But does it taste absolutely, utterly delicious? Also no

Thank you for your email. My conception of time is qualitative rather than quantitative and cannot be reduced to a spatialised series of instants. It is hard to say when I will respond

A grim moment for #Kyiv. A second Trump presidency means the probable end of US military assistance to Ukraine. The country's troops are already outgunned on the battlefield, with Russia advancing at the fastest rate since 2022. East - most of Donetsk oblast - may be lost in 2025

It is more important to look at why Trump was allowed to run, after committing sedition and a number of other crimes to which he confessed, than why he was able to win.

I disagree. It died in broad daylight. It died long before this result. It died in misinformation and corruption. It died when the powers of the world refused to intervene. Never again? Again.