Steve Tasane

Award-winning children's novelist & poet. Child I (Faber) Blood Donors & Nobody Saw No One (Walker)

[Steve Tasane @stevetasane]

New video poem for ACE-funded Positivity in Practice @positivityarts - Teardrops Are a Beautiful Thing - why crying is one of the best things we can do...email [email protected] https://t.co/F95IjRrV7u

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Greta Thunberg: “It is shameful that those who are protesting against genocide are being repressed, while the real war criminals walk free and get away with mass slaughtering... Free Palestine, the fight will not stop.."

[goma @soigomaa]

Her name is Gina Martin. She was at a music festival in London when a man pushed his phone between her legs and took a photo under her skirt. She reported it to the police immediately. They told her it wasn't a criminal offence. There was nothing they could do.
She went home and decided that was unacceptable. With no legal background, no political connections and no funding she launched a campaign to make upskirting a criminal offence in England and Wales. She petitioned. She lobbied MPs. She spoke publicly about what had happened to her. The government initially blocked the bill.
She kept going. The Voyeurism Act passed in January 2019. Upskirting now carries up to two years in prison. Scotland followed. Other countries are following. A woman at a festival with no lawyer, no funding and no political connections rewrote the law for an entire nation in eighteen months.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

After Palestine protest at Appeal Court, I went for a coffee in Pret, far up the road in The Strand

As I got my coffee, I turned to find myself surrounded by police. They demanded I show my placard & filmed it

My placard is not unlawful. This was intimidation. POLICE STATE!

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

All pretence cast aside. A vicious attack on the Anti-Zionist movement by the British state acting for the Zionist regime in defence of genocide.

Shameful.
#FreeTheFilton4

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

If people are to be sentenced as terrorists - they should first be charged with & found guilty of terrorism?

Please RT this until this is the case.

Thank you.

[Steve Tasane @stevetasane]

And what a brilliant book Wonderland is!

[Patience Agbabi @PatienceAgbabi]

@FireflyPress @frankcottrell_b @stevetasane Wonderland launch was the 'happening' on Sat 6th June 2026. This was just before the doors opened. What fun we had!!!

[positivityinpractice @positivityarts]

Just been refreshing my ACE schools resource site Positivity in Practice, in particular TALKING TROUBLE with POETRY PLAY - ideal for celebratory performance poetry sessions to see out the school year in a fun, upbeat manner. Yay! https://t.co/60xMO6ad7w

[Steve Tasane @stevetasane]

Just been refreshing my ACE schools resource site Positivity in Practice, in particular TALKING TROUBLE with POETRY PLAY - ideal for celebratory performance poetry sessions to see out the school year in a fun, upbeat manner. Yay! https://t.co/Ip5VJYHVWa

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Judge Johnson led a shameless legal stitch up of four young people who refused to be bystanders to genocide.

We have written a formal letter of complaint about his biased and discriminatory conduct.

Read the letter:
https://t.co/viJEfzdykb

Sign here:
https://t.co/EDDF793zm1

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Murder of Henry Nowak is NOT our “George Floyd”

A jury found Floyd was killed by a white police officer, actions celebrated by some on the Right
Nowak was killed by a Sikh civilian, condemned by everyone & deserves to rot in jail

Sarah Everard was our “Floyd”
Never forget her

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

This one of Tommy Robinson’s key henchmen, Danny Tommo, making it sounds as if he’s mustering up a group of men to march down London’s streets like vigilantes on 16th May. So, why aren’t Badenoch, Mahmood, Westminster council & The Met moving to ban it?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

The EQ on this child 😭

I believe we are all born this way, until life happens 😢

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israeli Quadcopter drones were used in Gaza to emit the sound of a baby crying.

When people rushed to help what they thought was a baby suffering, they were shot.

This is what the Filton 24 did to one of those Quadcopter drones.

[Steve Tasane @stevetasane]

This poem is not a hate poem
This poem is a peace poem
This poem says Never Again
This poem opposes genocide
This poem demands free speech
This poem marches for justice
This poem will not be silenced
#WhiteFeatherPoetry #FreePalestine #StarmerOut
https://t.co/PbFn4nLQiF

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.

My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.

This is what she said 🧵 1/

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I have referred Sky News and GMB to Ofcom over disgraceful and baseless smears that have been made about me.

There is nothing antisemitic about supporting the people of Palestine.

I will continue to speak out against racism, apartheid and genocide.

https://t.co/WKhqYfe7xm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.