Six poetry books with Carcanet Press. Three literary/cultural histories with Yale UP. Emeritus Prof of Gay & Lesbian Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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Stable doors come to mind.
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It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years.
European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you.
Thank you, dear Keir.
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Left: Sarah Pochin launches Christians for Reform UK
Right: Sarah Pochin, "It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are basically anything other than white"
Wait till she finds out that Jesus wasn't white 🤷♂️
Come and see me if you're in Edinburgh on 17 August!
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Google's AI summary told me that Don Paterson was the author of [Thom Gunn's] "The Man with Night Sweats", about which he wrote a negative review. Artificial intelligence is a bit like artificial grass: nothing like the real thing.
“I would think of poetry as a place where you connect your doubts to the things you don’t doubt. Free-floating doubt wouldn’t trigger the lightning that contradiction does. Because paradox really is deep.”
—Fanny Howe (1940-2025)
Our bijou programmette about the February House went out on BBC Radio 3 yesterday. Here it is for perpetual listening.
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Apparently, this programme of mine goes out on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday evening at 7.15.
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
(Francis Bacon, "Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature")
The weather forecaster on East Midlands Today keeps saying, "If I'm honest". The trouble is, I have no way of telling.
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BBC News observe migration shot up after Brexit in 2020 but doesn't explain that ending Free Movement with the EU means we replaced temp workers from the EU with permanent workers from India, Nigeria and elsewhere around the world
BBC News DID point out that under Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, visa required were loosened because of the people shortage caused by Brexit, allow people from overseas to move to the UK
Brexit literally did the opposite of what Brexiters said, migration shot up
On @BBCr4today this morning, the BBC’s pet political scientist Sir John Curtice said, of Reform’s performance in yesterday’s local elections: “We have seen unprecedented success for a Eurosceptic party in an election in Britain.” Oh yeah? Don't tell Boris Johnson!