This has really made a mockery of what the charge of 'terrorism' means. It's unfair, unjust and frankly dangerous.

If you haven't already seen this, I urge you to get a ticket. It's a story which will take you thorough every emotion. Great production with a fantastic cast It was great to meet DR SHOBNA GULATI MBE, DL, Everal A WALSH and of course Reece Dinsdale after the show on Thursday x

This is a fascinating conversation. I hope you listen to it.

George Monbiot showing how lack of punctuation which might upset the Grammar Police, but will mean even our badly run & regulated police can't arrest you (or will not get you charged under the Terrorism Act)...

"Cleared out". Clearly says it all.

"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people"...

Keir Starmer "One of my first acts as Prime Minister will be to put the Hillsborough Law onto the statute books" And yet on Friday his Government blocked lan Byrne MP's Hillsborough Law Bill from becoming Law. We have to end 15 years of Tory Government...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

This is the lying narcissistic twat that ruined the country and tried to destroy the parliamentary standards system to protect his mate Owen Paterson ...

clearly shit rises to the top ...

“Let’s not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.” Donald Trump. Can't think why he thinks that ...

This is what state awards should be for ... merit (and not just doing your well paid job or for your connections or for your donations) ...and in France no mention of their Empire ... The "imperial" part of the title was dropped ...

Today in 1984, Arthur Scargill tells Neil Kinnock: “You have only one lesson to learn from Mrs Thatcher - when you do become the Government of the day show us the same loyalty to our class that she has shown to their class.” Good job we've got Starmer now: Toolmakers rejoice!

This must-read post is a tour de force. A joy from start to finish. Fun for all the family! I thoroughly recommend it.

And let's forget the regulators. Of all public services, tbf. Overpaid, over-appointed, over and over again ... over and out ...

Charlotte is so impressive. She called The Bar Standards Board as “unfit for purpose” after a tribunal over-ruled a case against her brought by them. Result? The BSB Chair is now in a better paid public job. How fab that Charlotte's book and media profile has soared since! Hope!

A new government document on primary school children's writing and - big surprise - not a single writer for children on the panel. Quick question: how many thousands of hours of writing workshops have children's writers done with children in the last 5 yrs?

Having been having some - shall we say - "exchanges" with right wing fuckwits on the impending resident doctors' strike (a disgrace... they're on £43k a year). I suggest they just want £17 an hour to become £21). I got blocked. That's the way to argue your case. Badge of honour?

Not sure why but sometimes images just get me. Normally move on but as I'm ill in my bed I dwell. But Joni Mitchell backstage at a festival just seems to capture her creativity and brilliance. And as a writer, I simply don't know why. It just does! And it's Gray ... not Blue! x

Just having my usual leftie night of guilt and (given my poor health) despair of our world. And the highly connected people who can just ruin people’s lives. So strangely get drawn (for some reason) to injustice. This song always does it for me. It’s another extraordinarily