A helpful parliamentary written answer from the Home Office summarising one of the key drivers of small boat crossings There is no visa or other form of permission for people wanting to travel legally to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum, and it can't be done from abroad

Being part of some weird Elon Musk in-joke might be the thing that finally kills Twitter for me

📚Voting is open for the #ShelterBoxBookClub! We've got a a coming-of-age chronicle from Nigeria, a meditation on art from Italy, or a tale of community & ambition from Jamaica - all celebrating diversity in love and gender. 🗳 Sign up now at bit.ly/40KmnN0

2023 in the UK & we’ve got humans on prison boats waiting to be traded to another country. This is what this government have reduced our country to. Hateful, inhumane, grubby, morally bankrupt.

If you don't belive Trans Women are Women think very carefully about how you are defining a Woman and who else you are excluding. There is no binary in biology, gender is an invention

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This video from @BreconBeaconsNP made my heart sing! Hope for our world exists in the actions of brave communities coming together for change like this 💚 youtu.be/m7fcRyIY3EQ

Headed to #LondonBookFair for the first time tomorrow, any tips? Looks all a bit daunting from the outside. (as a bookbuyer not an author)

Wow, as trailers go this one is stunning. From @Netflix for the adaptation of the amazing Anthony Doerr book All The Light We Cannot See 💙youtube.com/watch?v=ePLIOb…

A beautiful and important story for a Sunday!

Lovely surprise this morning to come into a flurry of new members who read this article over the weekend 🥳

Come and see us at Hay Festival!

Wonderful to be Hay Festival today sponsoring inspiring conversation lyse doucet Tamana Ayazi Shazia haya about the relentless optimism and hopes of women and girls in Afghanistan ShelterBox #shelterboxbookclub

Thank you so much Tamana Ayazi for sharing your story with us at Hay Festival. We had the honour of sponsoring this event with lyse doucet, Tamana, and Shazia Haya. Three incredibly strong, brave women who are determined to make life better for the girls of #Afghanistan.

The telegraph has created a calculator that lets people calculate how much disabled people who can't work are "Costing" them. This is deliberately inciting hatred against disabled people. I urge you all to report this to IPSO if you can ipso.co.uk/complain/compl…

"It's only going to get weirder from here" is a sensational way to end an interview. theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

If I had a name as cartoon-baddy as this, I just wouldn't play into it like that

Please help spread the word to #FindGboyegaOdubanjo If you have any information please call Northamptonshire police on 101, quoting reference number MPD1/2619/23 Thank you

🧵Since it is becoming hard to keep track, here is a list of countries/municipalities that have seen catastrophic flooding in the first 11 days of September 2023: - Greece - Turkey - Libya <--- *thousands feared dead* - Brazil - Hong Kong - Shanghai - Spain - Las Vegas

For February, we'll be reading Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto and talking about colonialism, community and identity. We'll be raising funds for the wonderful ShelterBox and their head bookworm, Catherine Thornhill, will be joining us. Book your ticket on mybodymybookclub.com! 📚 ♥