Scottish PEN
@scottishpen.bsky.social
Scottish centre of @pen_int. Committed to promoting literature and defending freedom of expression. RTs ≠ endorsement. Join: http://bit.ly/201zvHC
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Happy RLS Day to those who celebrate. Why not mark the day by picking up a copy of 274 Miles from Tantallon Tìr?
It includes my short homage to Stevenson's gnomic Fables.
tantallontir.com/shop/
It includes my short homage to Stevenson's gnomic Fables.
tantallontir.com/shop/
Shop – Tantallon Tìr
This is where you can browse products in this store.
tantallontir.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Happy RLS Day to those who celebrate. Why not mark the day by picking up a copy of 274 Miles from Tantallon Tìr?
It includes my short homage to Stevenson's gnomic Fables.
tantallontir.com/shop/
It includes my short homage to Stevenson's gnomic Fables.
tantallontir.com/shop/
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Proud to have my poetry included in the Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025, which gathers together standout, risk-taking writing from the award-winning independent press.
Support vibrant, compelling contemporary literature and discover your new favourite writers now!
Support vibrant, compelling contemporary literature and discover your new favourite writers now!
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Proud to have my poetry included in the Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025, which gathers together standout, risk-taking writing from the award-winning independent press.
Support vibrant, compelling contemporary literature and discover your new favourite writers now!
Support vibrant, compelling contemporary literature and discover your new favourite writers now!
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Join us at 🇲🇩 #Moldova Security Forum to discuss digital transnational repression & how to tackle it. We will explore local security hubs,cross-border networks building resilience & more.
17 Nov 12:30PM ARTCOR Creative Hub, Chișinău
Register:
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17 Nov 12:30PM ARTCOR Creative Hub, Chișinău
Register:
unde.io/events/1534-...
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Join us at 🇲🇩 #Moldova Security Forum to discuss digital transnational repression & how to tackle it. We will explore local security hubs,cross-border networks building resilience & more.
17 Nov 12:30PM ARTCOR Creative Hub, Chișinău
Register:
unde.io/events/1534-...
17 Nov 12:30PM ARTCOR Creative Hub, Chișinău
Register:
unde.io/events/1534-...
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Solidarity on the Dundee Uni picket lines today @ducuuo.bsky.social #solidarity #NoCuts #WeAreTheUniversity ✊🩷💜🩷
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Solidarity on the Dundee Uni picket lines today @ducuuo.bsky.social #solidarity #NoCuts #WeAreTheUniversity ✊🩷💜🩷
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This time next week we hope all the nation's book lovers come to the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
Can't wait to see you there!
#bookweekscotland
Can't wait to see you there!
#bookweekscotland
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This time next week we hope all the nation's book lovers come to the New Town Church in George Street, Edinburgh for The Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
Can't wait to see you there!
#bookweekscotland
Can't wait to see you there!
#bookweekscotland
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Despite the busyness of Radical Book Fair prep, we still managed to read loads in October. Check out our recs here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Despite the busyness of Radical Book Fair prep, we still managed to read loads in October. Check out our recs here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-w...
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Join us next week for an online panel on how the attack on #arts and culture in the U.S. is impacting Canada.
Panelists:
• Jordan Laffrenier, Associate Artistic Director, Canadian Stage
• Sascha Priewe, President, ICOM Canada
• Robin Stevenson Writes, award-winning Canadian author
Panelists:
• Jordan Laffrenier, Associate Artistic Director, Canadian Stage
• Sascha Priewe, President, ICOM Canada
• Robin Stevenson Writes, award-winning Canadian author
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Join us next week for an online panel on how the attack on #arts and culture in the U.S. is impacting Canada.
Panelists:
• Jordan Laffrenier, Associate Artistic Director, Canadian Stage
• Sascha Priewe, President, ICOM Canada
• Robin Stevenson Writes, award-winning Canadian author
Panelists:
• Jordan Laffrenier, Associate Artistic Director, Canadian Stage
• Sascha Priewe, President, ICOM Canada
• Robin Stevenson Writes, award-winning Canadian author
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To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part.
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part.
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
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#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Today we call for justice for voices that continue to be silenced.
Head to pen-international.org to learn more about their cases, get prompts for solidarity letters, and discover how you can take action over the next four weeks.
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Head to pen-international.org to learn more about their cases, get prompts for solidarity letters, and discover how you can take action over the next four weeks.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Today we call for justice for voices that continue to be silenced.
Head to pen-international.org to learn more about their cases, get prompts for solidarity letters, and discover how you can take action over the next four weeks.
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Head to pen-international.org to learn more about their cases, get prompts for solidarity letters, and discover how you can take action over the next four weeks.
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Tomorrow, PEN International launches a global call to free writers jailed for their words: #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli. Follow & stay tuned to take action. #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tomorrow, PEN International launches a global call to free writers jailed for their words: #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli. Follow & stay tuned to take action. #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
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People held at the Core Civic-run ICE jail in Kern County, California are denied medical care, access to their attorneys, and, for disabled detainees, the most basic accommodations, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
ACLU Suit Targets “Dire” Conditions at CoreCivic-Run ICE Jail in California
“No human being, immigrant or not, should be subjected to these horrendous conditions,” said one of the plaintiffs.
truthout.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
People held at the Core Civic-run ICE jail in Kern County, California are denied medical care, access to their attorneys, and, for disabled detainees, the most basic accommodations, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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#Chile 🇨🇱 SRFOE calls on the State to ensure freedom of expression and access to public information, expressing concern over increasing restrictions and lack of transparency.
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The Special Rapporteurship publishes the Special Report on the situation of freedom of expression in Chile
Washington, DC—The Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression (SRFOE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) publishes the Special Report on the Situation of Freedom of…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#Chile 🇨🇱 SRFOE calls on the State to ensure freedom of expression and access to public information, expressing concern over increasing restrictions and lack of transparency.
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Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians in raids across West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-detain-15-palestinians-raids-across-west-bank
Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians in raids across West Bank
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces have detained15 Palestinians in pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, and al-Bireh, Wafa news agency is reporting.</p>
<p>Israeli soldiers rounded up seven Palestinians in Nablus, while in Qalqilya they detained Mahmoud Abu Labdeh and his brother Ahmad, Tariq Shabita, Sameh Abu Ali, Muhammad Abu Halima, and Saeed Abu Salma from the Kafr Saba neighbourhood.</p>
<p>In Ramallah and el-Bireh, former detainee Nadeem Barghouti was arrested from Beit Rima and Khalil Nabil from Abu Shkheidem.</p>
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November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians in raids across West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-detain-15-palestinians-raids-across-west-bank
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Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
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If these new rules had been in place when I arrived, the country would’ve lost everything I became.
And so will countless children arriving now, if we let it happen.
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And so will countless children arriving now, if we let it happen.
7/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
If these new rules had been in place when I arrived, the country would’ve lost everything I became.
And so will countless children arriving now, if we let it happen.
7/8
And so will countless children arriving now, if we let it happen.
7/8
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I am proof... living, breathing proof... of what happens when a country offers refuge with a future attached.
Britain gave me a chance, and I have spent my life giving back.
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Britain gave me a chance, and I have spent my life giving back.
6/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am proof... living, breathing proof... of what happens when a country offers refuge with a future attached.
Britain gave me a chance, and I have spent my life giving back.
6/8
Britain gave me a chance, and I have spent my life giving back.
6/8
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They don’t see the lives that bloom when safety is offered without an expiry date.
They don’t see what Britain gains when it chooses compassion over suspicion.
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They don’t see what Britain gains when it chooses compassion over suspicion.
5/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
They don’t see the lives that bloom when safety is offered without an expiry date.
They don’t see what Britain gains when it chooses compassion over suspicion.
5/8
They don’t see what Britain gains when it chooses compassion over suspicion.
5/8
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Policies like this pretend they’re about “control.” What they actually do is choke off the very stories that make this country stronger. They don’t see the scared kid who might grow into a doctor, a teacher, a neighbour, a parent.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Policies like this pretend they’re about “control.” What they actually do is choke off the very stories that make this country stronger. They don’t see the scared kid who might grow into a doctor, a teacher, a neighbour, a parent.
4/8
4/8
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But if today’s rules had existed back then, temporary status, conditional belonging, reviews hanging over your head like storm clouds, none of this would’ve happened.
You can’t build a future on a fault line.
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You can’t build a future on a fault line.
3/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
But if today’s rules had existed back then, temporary status, conditional belonging, reviews hanging over your head like storm clouds, none of this would’ve happened.
You can’t build a future on a fault line.
3/8
You can’t build a future on a fault line.
3/8
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And because of that chance, I’m now a British citizen, an emergency medicine consultant, a husband, and a father of four.
My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.
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My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.
2/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And because of that chance, I’m now a British citizen, an emergency medicine consultant, a husband, and a father of four.
My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.
2/8
My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.
2/8
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...