Coronavirus loans: £157m went to private schools as state schools got nothing. This is horrific. And yet more evidence that this government cynically used the confusion of the pandemic to feather their mates’ nests with vast sums from the public purse. opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

Thanks David L O'Nan and Fevers of the Mind Poetry, Art & Music for this. Thrilled my showcase is here. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter

Another horrendous Ofsted report Sir Martyn Oliver please read this. It is dreadful

#FollowFriday - follow these creatives. Yvonne gods below is everyone this tired? @jamesmcconachi1 Rachel Deering Merril D. Smith 🌻 Dr Catherine Redford Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* On Sale Joshua Jones | Local Fires Taz Rahman - "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" Regine Ebner @ElCurwen Saraswati Nagpal @AnnestGwilym Lisa Falshaw Ian Tattum Ivor Daniel Lou Mach Gayle J. Greenlea🟧🌻🏳️‍🌈@GJGreenlea.bsky.social jide badmus

Unpaid overtime is harming teachers' wellbeing and is ‘a key factor in fuelling the severe recruitment and retention crisis’, says Paul Whiteman commenting on a new report tes.com/magazine/news/…

‘Daylight robbery’: two in five UK teachers work 26 hours for free each week theguardian.com/education/2024…

#Morepoets Monday (pt 3). Follow these creatives: 🔥 tangie mitchell Rhian Edwards @jamesmcconachi1 James Lilley Lesley James Representing Wales Award 2024-25 Sam Rhydderch Oenone Thomas Writer @RichlyEvocative Zaina @philaberry Sue Ibrahim ✨Mab Jones✨ Lisa Falshaw jane lovell Phillipa Trelford Gayle J. Greenlea🟧🌻🏳️‍🌈@GJGreenlea.bsky.social Vasiliki Petroudi

Issue 2 of The Fig Tree is out today. With Featured Poet Rory Waterman including 3 poems from his new collection, which is out next week. figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…

It’s the end of the Tories as we know it (and I feel fine) - R.E.M. ft swedemason

It’s the end of the road.

Election Special: 1. The Economy

Dear ITV, you know this reflects badly on YOU, right? You not only allowed a blatant & obvious lie to go unchallenged, you enabled it by failing to give Starmer a proper, uninterrupted chance to correct it Our country is dying from these lies Do better theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Election Special: 2. Immigration

NEWS PPE being burned/landfill yesterday Footage from one PPE mountain All new All unusable All paid for with our taxes including to Tory cronies through the VIP LANE Inc Michelle Mone = £122m unusable PPE Cost to us: ONE BILLION POUNDS just to store and dispose of

Looking back on 14 years of the Tories is like looking back at the traumatising post-vindaloo shit you just did in the toilet.

So happy and proud to have a poem in here. And alongside Matthew M C Smith no less and many other remarkable writers! Thank you Tim Fellows.

Really thrilled to have a poem published by Ink Sweat & Tears today. Thank you for taking it Helen Ivory. Read it at the link below.

The open mic's starting soon and host Matthew M C Smith is coming to you from a purple planet. Always a weird and wonderful experience participating in the Black Bough open mics. Bring it on!

Andy Perrin TopTweetTuesday Matthew M C Smith #poetry #WritingCommmunity Here's a little offering of a Spring poem because it's half term! A bit late to the party, I've been marking. A few words over 80, but only a few! Hope you like it.