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Jason Ioannou
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Manchester Foundation Trust is denying visa support to 300 Nursing Assistants who are now at risk of deportation.

Please follow this link to send a letter to MFT management to demand their jobs are safeguarded.
bit.ly/4i2ofKK
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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'Don't you know, town is a powder keg'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjr...
#FallFriday
September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🔴FIGHT THE TARGETING OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISM - THALES, STOP ARMING ISRAEL COMMUNITY DEMO🔴

🗓 Monday 28th July
⏰5 - 6 PM
📍 Thales - Cheadle Heath site, Oakhurst Drive, SK3 0XB
🔗 instagram.com/p/DMVNmtoN6Iy/
July 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The 'real' River Flit,
Flitwick, Beds.
Photo of the River Flit in Bedfordshire
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Kelvin Corcoran
#smallpoemsunday
May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A chance to question GM Mayor Andy Burnham about the state of the NHS in our region.
Speak out for the NHS! An event organised by GM Socialist Health Association at the Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD on Tuesday 3rd June 6pm-8pm. In person and on Zoom - please register in advance at admin@sochealth.co.uk for Zoom link. Join the GM branch of the Socialist Health Association for an evening meeting on the state of the NHS. This is an open meeting, not just for SHA members. It is for anyone who is interested to hear the speakers and to discuss what we can all do to support and defend NHS services in the light of the financial deficit and the governement's planned cuts locally and nationally. Speakers include Andy Burnham, Mayor of GM; Amer Shoaib, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon; James Bull, Regional Organiser Unison NW. If you have specific question for Andy Burnham it would be helpful if you could send them in advance of the meeting, by 27th May, to admin@sochealth.co.uk. Further information contact Caroline Bedale, Secretary of GMSHA, c.bedale@btinternet.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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But trade with Israel itself continues, including parts and tech for F35s and drones which are used by Israel to commit genocide in Gaza. So this is not even a slap on the wrist.
Guardian headline: 'UK suspending trade talks with Israel over Gaza blockade, Lammy tells MPs'
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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From The Pages of Day and Night by Adonis
#smallpoemsunday
The Sleep of Hands by Adonis. Today I offer my palms to dead lands and muted streets before death seams my eyelids, sews me in the skin of all the earth and sleeps forever in my hands.
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I tell you no lies
completely blind
are the sentinel's eyes
at the back of his mind
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnKz...
#FallFriday
(Photo: Jade Heeley Bennett)
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees on his relief at not becoming Frank Zappa's drummer.
March 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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In such an asymmetrical and abusive relationship, the UK govt will capitulate to Trump. The business about persuading him to allow Ukraine to join NATO is just a sop to the EU. Reynolds knows this will never happen.
February 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Whenever you hear that X is a 'threat to British society', remember that the BBC once ran a programme asking if punk rock was such a threat. They even put up a phone number you could ring if you thought something should be done about it.
February 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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'They are not alright'
#fallfriday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dF...
The Fall - City Hobgoblins
&
Tim Atkins - Petrarch Sonnet 110
At the anti-war demo post-party poetry party 17 wannabe Sean Bonneys protest The tapping in the walls prog-rock Gert & Alice & Spanish fruit salads Being referred to as Macedonias Alexander Pope said something about money Called love ten times my age & one tenth my height Darling after this really is Photographs cannot record this state of bliss Between a man & a woman IF There is a thing We cannot walk the floor at night in peace An eldritch sin upon my chin But only for one evening
February 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Just finished this amazing, angry, life-affirming book. It moves towards its close with an ecstatic vision of the Fens after apocalyptic floods, as if John Clare had lived to see the effects of climate breakdown:
Just finished this amazing, angry, life-affirming book. It moves towards its close with an ecstatic vision of the Fens after apocalyptic floods, as if John Clare had lived to see the effects of climate breakdown:
February 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Antonio Gramsci, b. 22nd January 1891
January 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Tony Blair once again saying 'trust me', this time about AI.
January 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The wonderful Kelvin Corcoran
from the @longbarrowpress.bsky.social anthology 'Winter Songs' which they have generously made available for free download.
January 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Pierre Boulez (b.1925) - Cummings ist der Dichter
The sung text is by ee cummings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xv7...
January 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Gavin Selerie, from Collected Sonnets.

'stuggy' appears to be a Devonian dialect word meaning 'stocky' or 'sturdy'
'Forest Traces' from Collected Sonnets by Gavin Selerie
January 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM