Exciting news! Pandora For Example… my new book of Cretan poems with glorious burnt ink paintings by Maria Pavledis is now available in a limited edition of 200. Launch in Crete in May and at the Norwich Arts Centre in June. Also on the Black Crane website from June 1.

Arrest rapists? No. Arrest women with rape alarms? Yes. The Met.

This is incredibly sad. I despair for our country and the future.

Find myself strangely moved by his death. Too young, yes, but also takes away a voice that was unique and special. RIP.

60 Minutes hired an ethical hacker to show how easy it is to be scammed. She conned our unsuspecting colleague using artificial intelligence. cbsn.ws/3MOhmia

The launch of the latest book published by Black Crane Press…Pandora for example: poems for Crete . Reading at the Vincenzo Kornaros centre.

"One day you're going to end up with the wrong t-shirt on and you'll get arrested. It won't stop with climate protest." Chris Packham explains why Brits – no matter their politics – should unite against the government's Public Order Bill.

Yes!

They're seen living it up as lockdown hit millions.

A university department that consistently nurtures wonderful writers and scholars thanks to its great academic staff. Who are, of course, under threat from overpaid management following the philistinism of the Tories.

UEA staff counselling helped me so much. I’m so sad to see that they have been cut.

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Brings to mind the Chekhovian stage direction of laughing through tears.

Watching the Ch4 doc reminded me that Charlotte Edwardes wrote this about Russell Brand in her Evening Standard column in January 2019, after Brand told the Sunday Times he supported #MeToo

Of all the many shocking things about the Russell Brand story, this detail stands out. The TV industry knew his behaviour. And enabled it. (Via The Times and Sunday Times/Channel 4 Dispatches)

Sacha Lord You've obviously seen this

Why the fuck are the police involved?

So am I. Should be a brilliant day!

So much ‘commentary’, up to & including the calls for ethnic cleansing, completely ignores this.