Look, badness is easy to have, you can take it by handfuls Without effort. The road that way is smooth and starts here beside you. But between us and virtue the immortals have put what will make us Sweat. The road to virtue is long... Works & Days, Hesiod tr. R. Lattimore

Thank you to Elizabeth Brogden for interviewing me about my writing practice (and more) for Full Stop . A generous, supportive conversation.

These viral posts by Tommy Robinson and Britain First's Paul Golding, which accuse Green Party councillor Mothin Ali of rioting in Harehills, Leeds, are blatantly false. Multiple videos clearly show Mothin Ali tried to deescalate, help the police and stop the riots.

Paging The Halt (long story)

Kudos to my home town

You know what happened a month ago today? Tens of millions of us got a powerful chance to have our views about politicians, policies and politics. People claiming their views are ignored had their chance. It just turned out millions of the rest of us don't share their views.

No Pasaran. Goodnight ❤️

The mass gaslighting of Black and brown people in England about what we are seeing/experiencing is nuts.

Farage, Musk, Tate, Trump, Yaxley-Lennon, et al: there's not a spark of creativity between them. They make nothing. They are nothing. Their g(r)ift is to bully, cheat, incite, manipulate, misinform, degrade, destroy. That's all. They're not worth an inch of space in our lives.

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Do not look away

A truly haunting image… back and forth they are moved. Through a landscape that’s ever more unbelievable.

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Admirably mad...

Thanks to everyone who joined me - in part or in full -in 'rewalking' this seventy-mile, thirty-five-hour journey. The full thread (129 tweets) is embedded below.

Artist friends, are any of you living with this condition? All quite sudden and alarming. and nothing to be done, apparently. How has it affected your work? Can you still work? Do you get used to it? #posteriorvitreousdetachment

cos *fash*

In the first episode of the new series of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast to be released on Mon 16 Sept I talk to ⁦Fay Musselwhite⁩ about David Jones’ WW1 poem In Parenthesis and how it influenced ‘Memoir of a Working River’ from her ebullient collection Contraflow Longbarrow Press

This, this... benighted Blighty.