Make no mistake: the Tories’ introduction of photo ID is designed to stop younger and historically marginalised people from voting. Do not let them.

This Thursday:

🚨 You need to show photo ID at the polling station

🚨 You can only vote once - there is no second preference

Bristol folks! May is Local and Community History Month and I'll be talking about writing and researching local and family history for The Exiled, at Bristol Libraries on the 16th, do come along!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/lucy-fulford…

Colonial exploitation is no longer something that only happens abroad. Our limited understanding of empire allows us to be continually exploited by the ruling class.

Grateful for this @channel4news interview about the themes of my new book #TrackRecord - full thing @ 7pm BST.

This will be good! Preeti Dhillon’s book, THE SHOULDER’S WE STAND ON is excellent! #Defiance Dialogue Publishing

Have to say Private Eye Magazine is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏

A few events coming up in May and June!
Children’s poetry workshops on Saturday 25th & Tuesday 28th May. 🐾🧪
Worldbuilding (open to all) at Hay Festival Sat 1st June 🗺️
Cell poems at Imperial Business School on Sun 16th June (drop in, open to all) 🔬

Great to see the support for Diane Abbott MP in Hackney today!

BREAKING:

Happening now in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!

McGill University students join the global uprising for a free Palestine.

The university encampment protests against Israel’s genocide are spreading like wildfire worldwide.

🇵🇸🔥

Have you seen Carol Vorderman's tweet in support of Sangita Myska? No,neither have I because she hasn't posted one.Neither have any of the other presenters on LBC.Strange, these people can shoot their mouths off when it suits,but not defend a colleague whose been so badly wronged

He was probably a Conservative MP because he believed in the things he consistently voted for - slashing taxes on the rich, destroying the welfare state, privatisation, that kind of thing.

And he probably doesn’t think Labour poses any threat to those core beliefs?

Who on earth thought that image is a good idea?

The back of the march is still at Piccadilly Square as Hyde Park shouts: #ArmsEmbargoNow on Israel!

RETWEET 🙏🏽

Tomorrow’s phone-in:

LBC 📻- 0345 60 60 973

1-4pm

‘Where is Sangita?’

#WhereisSangita 👑

.Sangita Myska, popular LBC broadcaster, has suddenly been removed from the air. Why? Folks want answers. Also: a petition calling for her reinstatement has garnered thousands of signatures.
change.org/p/reinstate-sa…

This is a petition worth signing. Sangita Myska is a journalist with integrity who focuses on facts and evidence. change.org/p/reinstate-sa…

TODAY! We launch #TheReview , an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, entirely produced by and featuring writers of the global majority. Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic.
A short🧵

A lot of politicians are trying to convince the public right now that private companies will help the NHS. Think about every other public service that has been turned into a profit machine for private companies.

Have the public benefitted?

No. The shareholders have.🚨🚨🚨

Read and weep.