Day 1 and 2 of the The Sealey Challenge (read a poetry book every day in August). Rangikura by Tayi Tibble @paniaofthekeef the blue room by Eloise Hendy Eloise Hendy 📚📚📚📚📚 #books #amreading #amreadingpoetry

I just want to pay tribute to @BBCMarkEaston's reporting on both BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. He's calling out this disorder for what it is - coordinated far-right thuggery bent on exploiting the tragedy in Southport for its own violent ends. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

When public school-educated multimillionaires fire up fascists to burn down the Citizens' Advice Bureau in a town where one child in three lives in poverty, that's more than just 'rightwing populism'

An utterly despicable thing to say

1/ 🧵Just did a network analysis of the "far right thugs unite" hashtag. It largely seems to be a simulated scandal/outrage to promote the Reform Party and Nigel Farage and - while also being an attack on Keir Starmer.

Spellow Library needs our help after the riots. Please donate, like, comment, and share to bring new books and a safe space back for the kids. Let's make a difference together! gofund.me/b28ba16d

In short, Farage is a key part of the problem

Mark & Debbie from #Spellow Hub, express their sorrow after the destruction of their community hub. The service gives vital support to the community & the devastation caused by the appalling criminal actions of a minority has left people in shock. Liam Robinson Dan Carden

A far-right Telgram group with 13,000 members is sharing a list of 39 immigration-related charities, advice centres and solicitors as targets for arson attacks on Wednesday night. The group also includes calls to murder ethnic minorities, anti-fascists and government ministers.

Bearing in mind's Musk's support for racist rioting in Britain, and despite having been a regular user of Twitter since 2011, I'd be perfectly happy to see this platform blocked in Britain - even permanently - if that's what it takes to help reduce dangerous disinformation

BBC Newsnight I am not sure Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE 🇬🇧 has the intellectual bandwidth, to have the serious and nuanced discussion, you seem to want to have. Pompous, vacuous, arrogant and deeply ignorant, dreadful choice.

Note BBC Newsnight Unsurprisingly the good folk of Leeds got rid of the odious Andrea Jenkyns as one of their representertives. She is now irrelevant to any public discourse. Be better.

Brighton

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Back briefly - to link to my latest Substack. On Jacob Bronowski, the BBC and MI5. (A kind of preview for The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski, on BBC Radio 4 this Saturday at 8pm - presented by Frances Stonor Saunders, produced by Martin Williams) davidhendy.substack.com

Back, but only briefly, to repost this, my latest Substack On Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, MI5 and the BBC open.substack.com/pub/davidhendy…