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Please catch this, it was glorious! I was greetin’ after the wonderful Jackie Kay read her poem, I laughed aloud at Victor & Barry, Elif Shafak such an advocate for women, was mesmerising but mostly, their personal stories, knitted together by Damian Barr were just gorgeous

The Japanese word “tsundoku” describes the secret habit of acquiring books and then letting them pile up without necessarily ever reading them. I plead guilty! For some, just possessing a book is sometimes enough (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Mick Lynch not falling for the Tory tactics of Starmer and Reeves!

Got this message from my surgery today. The NHS definitely going down the same road as dentistry. #sickening

I LOVE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Beautiful anthology #giveaway

In amongst all the pish on X you find beautiful storytelling like this:

The Washington Post is the paper which broke Watergate. It won a Pulitzer for coverage of January 6th. For the Washington Post to refuse to endorse a candidate because it fears retribution from Trump is an enormous flashing red sign that the country is on the brink of fascism.

Happy birthday to Jackie Kay whose talents and generosity of spirit constantly give me joy

Hard to describe the uplifting and exhilarating performance last night at the (soulless) O2 by the genius Nick Cave and the Bad seeds. Utterly transcendent. Reader, I wept.

Who would have thought we’d ever see Three Angels performed on Saturday Night Live

Must have been a list of options: tax increases for the rich, windfall taxes on huge profits, maybe even halving the daily payment for those attending the HoL . . . Nope, let’s go after the poor, the OAPs and the disabled.

Yeah it’s possibly a typing error but Americans studying Dickinson, Shelley, Donne AND Burns is really something, is it not? I’m sure when Trump finds out he’ll do a Gove and order that only American works be studied. In the meantime, enjoy it Floridian students!

If you didn’t see this I urge you to watch it, it’s amazing. His truth on young males needing role models was very moving and his experience of resilience was inspirational.

The sun is out at last!!!!!! I’ll drink to that!

But hey, Gary Lineker. . .