Tea drinking, trumpet playing writer from other side of t’pond. Words in @Monkeybicycle, @Cherrytreelit, and more. Probably reading a book.
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2009
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I’m thrilled to have had a poem shortlisted for the Plough Poetry Prize! Congrats to the winners theploughprize.co.uk
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Last year, my friend Hasan Piker addressed the Oxford Union. He spoke cogently (youtube.com/watch?v=jcIa2pE2…) on the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
This coming Friday, The Econoclasts (that is, Wolfgang Munchau and I) were to host him at a live event at the Kings Cross Town Hall.
Alas, the Starmer government decided to ban Hasan from entering the UK. Why? Without even saying so explicitly, they hinted at Hasan's... antisemitism!
Join the club Hasan - your ban brings back memories of two years ago when I was banned from entering Germany for the hideous crime of organising, alongside German Jews, a conference on the ultra-subversive topic of the 'A Just Peace in the Middle East'.
These days, it seems, you are banned as an antisemite if you oppose the Palestinian genocide and the ideology that drives it.
And, as Freddie tweeted just now, your being silenced leaves those who purport to value free speech above all else utterly unperturbed.
Such are the 'interesting' times we are enduring...
We have very regrettably had to cancel our @Econoclasts event with Hasan Piker this week. He was going to be challenged in a new and interesting way — now that cannot happen.
@UnHerd stands for free thinking, free enquiry and free expression. For meeting bad arguments with counter-arguments, not cancelling or "de-platforming". The ideal of free speech only counts if you defend the right of those you strongly disagree with to speak. Otherwise it is meaningless.
Personally I have been very depressed by people on the political Right who have talked the talk on free speech for years — we have campaigned alongside them against censorship over Covid, gender and much else — but who are now seemingly all too happy to forcibly silence people they don't agree with.
We will continue to fight against intellectual dishonesty, illiberalism and boneheadedness whichever political colour it takes.
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Issue 2 has landed!
frazzledlit.com/p/issue-2-ha…
Featuring work from:
@meefion @julietPers @lmbayley
@1funnyfarmAdams @daraghfleming @merril_mds
@abairrud2021
@melissacuisine @hool415
@dandugwriter @snmaril
@theSaraAult @lucyPRich
And more, this issue is 🔥. Thanks to you all!
Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books? lithub.com/why-is-march-2024… via @lithub
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king philip of france (1116–1131) died two years into his reign when his horse tripped over a pig in paris, causing him to be thrown from its back onto his head.
the french, naturally, put the story in just about every history book for 400 years. here are the best versions🧵
ALT a medieval drawing of a young man in red falling from the back of a horse that is tripping over a black pig
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Anne Marie Price, mosaic artist based in southern California, who among other materials, creates her work on surfboards #WomensArt #SaturdayVibes
ALT Photograph of a surfboard lying flat on bumpy sand and vertically in the image, the board is decorated in a white mosaic style with a mermaid design under a radiating golden sun
For those freaking out about Black and Asian elves in Middle Earth…you do know Lord of the Rings isn’t real, right? #LOTR #LOTRonPrime
I found out a couple of days ago that puce isn’t in fact a yellowy green shade, it’s bloody MAUVE! I’m still in shock #TodayILearned
Two devastatingly beautiful poems by @heartbarf in the online edition of @GrantaMag. “Last time it was urine season, I was expecting. That’s how you say it. You don’t say what you’re expecting. I didn’t know what I expected, but now I know.”
granta.com/two-poems-niina-p…
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Sympathy (Madness of the cat), 1955 by Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo,#WomensArt
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#instastory from .@joshgroban Repost from @chrissimpson Last minute Halloween costumes #halloween2021 #costumes #cartoon
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I wish we could make friends as adults the way we did when we were kids. why can’t I just walk up to someone like “look at this rock it looks like a potato” and suddenly we’re best friends
Today I found out that Npeter is an actual name, except the N is silent. I kid thee not. Why would someone subject their child to a life of having to explain their name is Pete with a silent N??
