Kate Dunn

The Thread Jamie made his landing in the world so hard he ploughed straight back into the earth. They caught him by the thread of his one breath and pulled him up. They don't know how it held. And so today I thank what higher will brought us to here, to you and me and Russ, the great twin-engined swaying wingspan of us roaring down the back of Kirrie Hill and your two-year-old lungs somehow out-revving every engine in the universe. *All that trouble just to turn up dead* was all I thought that long week. Now the thread is holding all of us: look at our tiny house, son, the white dot of your mother waving.

The Circle for Jamie My boy is painting outer space, and steadies his brush-tip to trace the comets, planets, moon and sun and all the circuitry they run in one great heavenly design. But when he tries to close the line he draws around his upturned cup, his hand shakes, and he screws it up. The shake's as old as he is, all (thank god) his body can recall of that hour when, one inch from home, we couldn't get the air to him; and though today he's all the earth and sky for breathing-space and breath the whole damn troposphere can't cure the flutter in his signature. But Jamie, nothing's what we meant. The dream is taxed. We all resent the quarter bled off by the dark between the bowstring and the mark and trust to Krishna or to fate to keep our arrows halfway straight. But the target also draws our aim - our will and nature's are the same;

we are its living word, and not a book it wrote and then forgot, its fourteen-billion-year-old song inscribed in both our right and wrong - so even when you rage and moan and bring your fist down like a stone on your spoiled work and useless kit, you just can't help but broadcast it: look at the little avatar of your muddy water-jar filling with the perfect ring singing under everything.

Two beautiful poems by Don Paterson about his son Jamie. ‘The Thread’ (from Landing Light, 2003) and ‘The Circle’ (from Rain, 2009).

Prompting!!

Thanks for the tip and for promoting me to look more closely.

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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‘We need to accept the cost’: future of British Steel unclear as bills for government build up Propping up operations at Scunthorpe site, still legally owned by Jingye, now costs over £1.2m a day – so what are the options?

Future of British Steel unclear as UK govt bills build up.

Industry subsidised since privatisation.

Chinese control model: Buy crucial industry abroad, gut it, increase exports from China, dependance on China.

Govts hand free money. No equity stake, nothing repayable.

Must nationalise.

Time for a Brexit reckoning In order to finally move one, Britain must face the abysmal failure this project has been.

‘The U.K. needs to have an explicit reckoning with the abysmal failure the Brexit project has been.’
www.politico.eu/article/time...

Musk and Zuckerberg pictured at dinner with Epstein after child sex conviction Jeffrey Epstein emailed the photograph to himself on in August 2015, one day after he bragged about meeting tech chiefs for a swanky dinner, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

"Awesome dinner"

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir.

Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender.

No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

Racists… they stick together, drawn to each other like flies drawn to excrement❗️🥴

THIS 💥💥💥
#BBC♡REFORM

The people of Minneapolis are the best of America!

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

This is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...

Sign this please. It’s a start to the pushback we need. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….??
After you’ve helped their collapse?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

Its the same everywhere.

#Immigration has always been a net benefit to economies.

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

From @nafeez.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/byli...

The US and Russia’s nuclear weapons treaty is set to expire. Here’s what’s at stake Letting New START expire would signal that the world’s largest nuclear powers are abandoning restraint.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires this week. It marks the first time since the 1970s that there will be no legally binding limits on US and Russian strategic nuclear forces.

Important thread…

Tou know what to do

Telegraph POLL: Are you happy with Brexit 10 years on? Currently 54% say yes vs 43% say no.

Here’s a direct link to the poll so you don’t have to read the article.
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The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century Mandelson's fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness

Some interesting reporting in the New Statesman. There was a shortlist of four to be UK Ambassador to the US. Starmer favoured George Osborne. It was Morgan McSweeney who pushed for Mandelson.

How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

2) How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps

SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger.

migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

“Perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty…,the rule of law be damned.” Looking at you, Stephen Miller.

It’s not the most important thing but the world being plotted like bad television is making it pretty confusing for those trying to write good television