Astonishing performance by US Secretary of State Anthony "the Axe" Blinken. Sets the bar high for other Foreign Ministers. What say you James Cleverly🇬🇧 @ABaerbock Mélanie Joly Catherine Colonna? #diplomaticblues #softpowerrock

I will not sleepwalk to night All Shadows are heartless I will stand up for light And rise above the darkness Photo by Letícia Higa

Bringing some joy to my timeline with my pair of pumpkins, harvested earlier in the week and going orange in time for Halloween.

"Let the Light Pour In" has been out for 9 days. It is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller as of Sunday October 1st. It is unusual for poetry to be a hardback fiction Sunday Times bestseller so I am over the moon. It is a full moon too #letthelightpourin

Tonight the light poured in over St Martin in the Fields. Just look.

Oooh look at what’s number 9 in films today on Netflix UK & Ireland! #beforeigotosleep

After an extraordinary year and a half The Bookseller, today is my last day. I'm excited to share that from next week, I'll be joining @CHEERIOPublish as their new Project Administrator 👋

Deeply disturbing. All you need to know about the new right wing populism in the Conservative Party summed up in a smile from a former Home Secretary + applause as she attacks “the establishment…,the Brexit-bashing, free speech deniers at the BBC”.

This is simply superb from Victoria Derbyshire. An absolutely sublime masterclass in how UK media should be holding these truth twisters to account

Trainspotting parodies usually bore the shit out of me, but I quite like this one.

Top work by ⁦Liberty⁩ as court grants permission for legal action against Home Secretary for introducing unlawful measures to clamp down on protesters . . . libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/court-gr…

This is superb work by Liberty The High Court has granted Liberty permission to take legal action against Suella Braverman for unlawfully introducing new anti-protest legislation which had been democratically rejected by Parliament. Way to go Liberty! libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/court-gr…

“Ms. Braverman is trying to poison the soul of everyone for her own very narrow political survival”. I don’t always agree with Yanis Varoufakis but this is absolutely stunning.

Should just be called the Fitzcarraldo Prize for Literature at this stage. Phenomenal.

Just one problem Penny: under your government’s protest laws if you stand up and fight for your human rights in the street you will now be arrested

As it is #NationalPoetryDay & as a square in Glasgow will be named Jackie Kay Plaza can you suggest a fictitious street name in a real place celebrating poets. I will start the ball rolling with Rosen Rise in Pinner. Think of it as a poetic Mornington Crescent

Libraries are supposed to be magnificent temples of learning. These are the 25 most beautiful examples on Earth 🧵 1. Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

We've just had a library book returned that was due back in 1974 how's your day going?

This should be on everyone’s radar. Hits hard but with also with genuine humour. I wish I could put it in the hands of the councillors so insistent on cutting amenities & opportunities from working class communities! Definitely one for older teens. Absolutely brilliant.