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Novelist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Stone-Jake-Lynch/dp/1783527919 Poet: https://pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-09/jake-lynch/ Scholarly researcher and exponent of Peace Journalism: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gmKTVj4AAAAJ&hl=en
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What kind of system puts prices up for consumers - even when it causes hardship and when energy companies are literally increasing their profits. All services that people need to survive or an inability to access them increases suffering should be publicly owned or not for profit - there sorted!

The narrative seems to be that universities should sort out their own mess, as if this were simply a problem of financial mismanagement rather than a structural failure that demands political leadership ✍️James Downs nation.cymru/opinion/wels...

Graham Potter staying humble by taking the underground after upsetting Arsenal at the Emirates ☠️ 📷: X/MrGrifty

From United Humanists on FB

I hope the world is as lucky as the Delta jet - everyone survives and the right wing vanishes.

It's great meeting so many crime book lovers here on @bsky.app If you want to get to know us, you can meet the Crime Fiction Lover team on our About page: crimefictionlover.com/about/ More soon...

Inside Europe's 'Trump crisis' is the opportunity to do what should have been done 35 years ago: disband NATO and reach sustainable relationships with Russia and China: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/e...

Belfast, Ireland 🇮🇪

A man who illegally dumped waste in a Welsh woodland has been ordered to pay a total of £2,270 in fines and costs after being caught on Natural Resources Wales surveillance cameras

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Thanks and congrats @asauthors.bsky.social for courageous statement on artistic freedom following outrageous political censorship by Creative Australia: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-sta...

Lads, it's Man United 😅

Pele’s Prerogative by Albert Tucher reviewed crimefictionlover.com/2025/02/pele... #Hawaii #crimefiction

The Underhistory by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social has just come out as a paperback. We're putting our own early proof up for grabs. Enter to win here: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction... @viperbooks.bsky.social Draw closes 8am Sunday morning.

Europe should take Vance at his word. Disband NATO. Chuck out US bases and missiles. Seek friendship with Russia and China.

It seems the Murdochracy is hellbent on a Dutton prime ministership. Remember how 💩 Abbott was? Turnbull was as weak as dishwater. Morrison was the absolute pits of egocentric, vacuous, inanity. Between them they’ve damaged Australia immensely. Now they hoping to make Dutton the next Worst Ever PM

Closer economic ties with the European Union will boost growth by up to 2.2 per cent, according to new economic modelling shared with members of the cabinet If Labour’s mission truely is “growth” they need to have an honest discussion with the public about this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

At last, a solution. 👏🏼 www.nctld.uk/news/article...

www.euronews.com/2025/02/08/f...

Oh dear www.news.com.au/technology/m...

True.

A novel to look forward to bookshop.org/a/8189/97803...

We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com

Visit our site today and meet new crime fiction author RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social Next week, her novel Death on Ice hits the shelves - a contemporary cosy mystery set on a research vessel in the Arctic, with a Golden Age vibe to it... crimefictionlover.com/2025/02/inte...

Casual library pickup Librarian told me "this ones been popular" Shocking!

Trump's Gaza solution betrays his ignorance of history - and could make the conflict worse Contrary to the US president's claim that many countries have offered to help take Palestinians in, none have done so publicly news.sky.com/story/trumps...

WE FOUND THE PEPPELGÄNGER 🤯 Emirates steward who bears strong resemblance to City manager also seemed to share in his sullen vibes during City’s lopsided defeat at Arsenal.

OFSTED was invented by the Tories to shift blame for school failings from their own spending cuts and scapegoat teachers for them instead. Needs to be abolished, resources handed to schools to hire more frontline staff. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Some 3 out of 4 18-25 year olds think that the UK’s leaving the EU was a mistake. Brexit was foisted on the young by the old. It was an intergenerational injustice. The EU has asked the UK to enter into a Youth Mobility Scheme. Yvette Cooper has rejected it. Labour looks like a blockhead.

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!