The Refugee Tales Gatwick Detainees good luck Izzy 👠👌🏾👣🌞🍾‼️‼️

Lunchtime read: "Detention, an increasingly grey zone" With big thanks to Gatwick Detainees for helping us investigate the issues arising out of recent sudden, ad hoc status changes to detention facilities including Tinsley House IRC: aviddetention.org.uk/news-events/ne…

Hear the incredible inside story of Ali Smith's seasonal quartet in this oral history penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/…

oh, there's Refugee Tales, edited by David Herd and UEA alumnus Anna Pincus !

Make sure you listen to the LGA podcast, 'Forget What You Think You Know...' next Wednesday, featuring one of our Cohort 22 grads, Esther! #ngdp #localgov

Polling stations are now open and won't close till 10pm. Please try to go at quieter times and be prepared in case there's a queue. Don't forget your mask and your own pen. Postal votes can still be handed in on the day. In #Crawley only a vote for Labour can stop the Tories.

Don’t miss Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg ‘there should be not just within the statutes but across humanity a basic law of life which is to respect and honour and care for people and hold them innocent and help us to attain freedom as one shared humanity’ youtu.be/L9JJ3cS5VkA

From data collected and analysed by the BBC (1247 'key wards' across the country), we can calculate an implied swing since the 2019 General Election. That figure is a 3-point swing toward Labour. If applied uniformly across the GB, that would be around: Con: 340 seats Lab: 221

Coming soon from Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow: Refugee Tales IV, edited by David Herd and UEA alumna Anna Pincus.

My fav building #steps on #RefugeeTales this weekend…

The steps we took on #RefugeeTales gave our community hope and courage and we denied ourselves physical connection but… wow, the joy and relief at being together was palpable - and we all grew stronger and there was possibility again ♥️ #RTsteps

We are so delighted by the news that our Patron Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the #NobelPrize in Literature. Truly wonderful recognition and we send our heartfelt congratulations. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PvN0IO…

Congratulations to Christy O'Brien 🎉🎉

I'm delighted to say I'm now a digital reporter for Essex Echo! If you have any stories in #Basildon or #Southend you would like to share with me, please get in touch at [email protected].

Tickets are on sale NOW for our solidarity walk in July: rt2023.eventbrite.co.uk Join us for all 5 days of our Sussex walk, or join as a day walker. Every evening of the walk there are events with music & readings of tales. We look forward to walking with you. #WalkWithUs

Congratulations BETH TAYLOR for sheer bravery and a magnificent performance BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 💐🎉💫

Here are some beautiful quotes from Anna Pincus 's powerful speech at our AGM. Thank you very much for bearing witness, speaking the truth, and never losing sight of humanity, Anna. Anna Pincus is the director of Gatwick Detainees and the founder of The Refugee Tales

our pollinators here in the UK are dropping rapidly - a butterfly emergency was even called last year. Pollinator numbers dropping is partly due to how much pesticides we use - but it doesn’t have to be this way. act.gp/41dxd0E

Hellebore season! Handful of the vast variations at Ashwood Nurseries

The Boy and Sturgeon statue has been given a new home within Tilgate Park’s Walled Garden, next to the pond. Fondly known as ‘The Boy and the Dolphin’, the statue was a landmark in Queens Square, delighting residents since the 1950s.