To summarize: Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize? Nobel Chair: the award only goes to people of courage and integrity. *mic drop* 🫳🎤

What does it take for 21st century client political journalism to recognise a real and significant news story? This all goes completely ignored while if a paparazzi photographer got a picture of Angela Rayner with a fag in one hand and a glass of wine in the other they’d be on

When the harvest moon comes up I think of Adiba who works so hard and against all odds both teach and learn in Afghanistan. She'd would love to be heard. Please pass her poem on.

Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse. Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into

🚨NEW: Legendary Singer Neil Young has announced that he is removing his music from Amazon Music due to founder Jeff Bezos' support for Donald Trump. RETWEET to thank @NeilYoung for standing up for our democracy!

Thanks for all the love for Neda's poems. It has had a huge effect on her. She is filled with hope despite the restrictions on her life in Afghanistan. She wrote this in my zoom class today. She is still 11.

The new edition of Byline Times goes to the printers tomorrow. And we go where others fear to tread… Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

Since the ceasefire, I have wandered like a man returned from the grave. Our house had been destroyed; the photographs told me so, yet still I feared to see it with my own eyes. For in seeing, the wound becomes real; the soul is forced to confess what it already knows. And when

Another angle of the ICE Agents arresting me for singing in Portland Oregon! 🎥 By Alex Gonzo RT so Elon has to pay me TWITTER AD revenue money for Lawyers 💖🌈

This could be interesting.

Michael Wolff’s Instagram: Michael Wolff vs Melania Trump: See you (and your husband) in court. “I’d like nothing better than to get Donald Trump + Melania Trump under oath in front of a court reporter and actually find out all of the details of their relationship with Epstein.”

Publisher apologises to author Kate Clanchy four years after book controversy bbc.in/3X9RBNr

If you are appalled by what ⁦Kate Clanchy⁩ suffered, both on X and bcs of her cowardly publishers ⁦Pan Macmillan⁩ as described in ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ today, buy her books, esp this one. She is now published ⁦Swift Press⁩

Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇

Here’s what I said at the time. Whatever one thinks about this tragic, painful saga, I remain in awe of Kate Clanchy’s ability to foster & promote young people’s poetry writing - incl the poems by Afghani children she’s currently sharing on SM. barbarableiman.com/post/a-respons…

Adiba wrote this in my online workshop for women in Afghanistan. Please pass it on.

When BBC Radio 4 was making Anatomy of a Cancellation, I had to go to London three times to record interviews. Each time I walked into Broadcasting House I passed chanting protesters with percussion. I saw them mob individual journalists and shout their names. Meantime on

Inspired by James Marriott I wrote a post about professional jealousy. Free to read. open.substack.com/pub/kateclanch…

Wow…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

All of the women and girls I teach have the support of Afghan men or they wouldn't be able to access even online learning. Adiba wrote this for her father.