Diane Leedham

Retired English/Literacy/EAL teacher. Energised by kids, conversation and connections....'What makes a fire burn is the space between the logs'

[Diane Leedham @DiLeed]

@issmith3 @ProfSunnySingh I’m fine. Thank you. Just not on SM very much these days! I hope all is well with you and your family in these challenging times x

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Sunny is offline for health reasons. Please keep boosting news from Palestine and Gaza fundraisers. And please please please keep donating, supporting & boosting the fundraisers as the need is great and urgent

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

This beautiful essay by the incomparable Alaa Alqaisi.

https://t.co/4bAzX9Hhvs

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Morning friends. After some difficult weeks, I am back online. I will still have limited time here so once again I will be primarily be sharing news from Palestine and Gaza fundraisers. Please keep donating, supporting & boosting the fundraisers as the need is great and urgent

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

This is appalling, dangerous for this dedicated brave journalist and very revealing of fascistic western Big Tech. Can we please stop relying on Large Learning Models for information (PS there is nothing intelligent about them so calling them AI is daft).

[Jhalak Prize @jhalakprize]

Let's not even start with other intersections of exclusion. Publishing's idea of inclusion is flimsy at best

[Jhalak Prize @jhalakprize]

We have "collectively been thinking about possibility, speculation and hope, all of which today feels vital and immediate."
Read @jhalakreview editor Guy Gunaratne on hope, imagination and writing the future in our Autumn 2025 issue: https://t.co/Qsjycbeqm5

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

"Can words heal us, astound us, make us cry, make us feel, change who we are — and how do we make words do that?"

@AntonHur shares writing routines, future plans, and reflections on the aesthetic sensitivity essential to translation:

https://t.co/pxcn9HOh9L

[Diane Leedham @DiLeed]

@rapclassroom You like to keep busy ;-)

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

I fear Germany (and a lot of the ‘West’) is setting the stage for antisemitic mass violence. This explicit conflation of Israeli and Jewish by Spiegel just as many of Europe’s press and politicians begin to use the term genocide should worry all of us
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[Darren Chetty @rapclassroom]

Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch of I’m Going to Make a Friend. Such a lovely evening hosted by @Ink84Books and organised by @LittleTigerUK

[Elliot Dugdale @ElliotDugdale]

Enoch Powell in the ‘rivers of blood’ speech:

‘But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For they found themselves made strangers in their own country.’

[Darren Chetty @rapclassroom]

Taken literally, ‘Island of Strangers’ is nonsensical. But symbolically it weaves Powellism, notions of belonging, and blood and soil nationalism into one phrase. And it further emboldens the racists.

[Darren Chetty @rapclassroom]

I think it's a big mistake to accept the framing of 'island of strangers' and then argue about it. The implied notion of nation as family is insidious - it's not something we should be aiming for.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

"The Nakba continues until today."

77 years ago today, Huda's father was one of more than 800,000 Palestinians forced from their homes when the state of Israel was created.

Today, Huda's neighbours and community in Sheikh Jarrah are threatened with eviction by the Israeli authorities from the place they sought refuge after 1948. #NakbaDay77 #NakbaDay #Nakba

[Letterbox Library @LetterboxLib]

Oh yes. Finally. The wait is always too long 😉

The latest Books for Keeps is out. We’ll be sharing our fave articles over the coming days, of course #BfK272

[Ian Cushing @ian_cushing]

in these discipline policies, speaking in ‘correct grammar’, ‘standard English’, in ‘full sentences’ and not using ‘slang’ were perceived to be signs of well behaving children - whilst the opposite was true for badly behaved children. these are ideological, not empirical links.

[Letterbox Library @LetterboxLib]

📣And for all those of you who enjoy swerving Ama*zon and putting your money in to regular tax-paying companies, there’s joy over at @bookshop_org_UK where we’ve just listed the:

💚Little Rebels Award Longlist💚

https://t.co/T5kg1uOPNM?

[Liberation News Network @l_n_n_26]

A perfectly observed sketch on the ludicrous, degenerated state of both politics and culture in Britain today.

[MASSOLIT @massolit]

Dr Harry McCarthy explores how young male actors transformed into women on stage in early modern theatre. Watch his full course on MASSOLIT.