Nicola Spurr
@nicolaspurr.bsky.social
Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
It’s cold & wet in London, which makes me think about the thousands of displaced Gazans who are being flooded out of their tents, trying to survive both the ongoing Israeli aggression, famine & severe shortages & winter hardships.
If you can, please donate to one of the following organisations.
If you can, please donate to one of the following organisations.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s cold & wet in London, which makes me think about the thousands of displaced Gazans who are being flooded out of their tents, trying to survive both the ongoing Israeli aggression, famine & severe shortages & winter hardships.
If you can, please donate to one of the following organisations.
If you can, please donate to one of the following organisations.
This is the go-to defence of the bully who protests that punching the small kid was only a joke. A joke that only the bully & their acolytes laughed at.
The testimonies of the boys who remember Farage at school correspond with the personality of the adult who now struts about our political stage.
The testimonies of the boys who remember Farage at school correspond with the personality of the adult who now struts about our political stage.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is the go-to defence of the bully who protests that punching the small kid was only a joke. A joke that only the bully & their acolytes laughed at.
The testimonies of the boys who remember Farage at school correspond with the personality of the adult who now struts about our political stage.
The testimonies of the boys who remember Farage at school correspond with the personality of the adult who now struts about our political stage.
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📣 Work with Us - #DeptfordLiteratureFestival
Are you a London-based writers, poets, artists, arts and community organisations with exciting ideas? Apply to be part of our #DeptfordLiteratureFestival 2026 programme.
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Deadline: Monday 1 December, 10am
Are you a London-based writers, poets, artists, arts and community organisations with exciting ideas? Apply to be part of our #DeptfordLiteratureFestival 2026 programme.
🔗 More info : tinyurl.com/4mjm3b67
Deadline: Monday 1 December, 10am
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📣 Work with Us - #DeptfordLiteratureFestival
Are you a London-based writers, poets, artists, arts and community organisations with exciting ideas? Apply to be part of our #DeptfordLiteratureFestival 2026 programme.
🔗 More info : tinyurl.com/4mjm3b67
Deadline: Monday 1 December, 10am
Are you a London-based writers, poets, artists, arts and community organisations with exciting ideas? Apply to be part of our #DeptfordLiteratureFestival 2026 programme.
🔗 More info : tinyurl.com/4mjm3b67
Deadline: Monday 1 December, 10am
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
Here’s a brilliant auction raising funds for #Sudan. There’s a massive range of cool arty things you can bid on!
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here’s a brilliant auction raising funds for #Sudan. There’s a massive range of cool arty things you can bid on!
Wonderful obituary for South African writer Zoë Wicomb here, in good company with the late Geoffrey Bindman.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Last Word - Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton - BBC Sounds
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an author, a lawyer and a civil engineer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wonderful obituary for South African writer Zoë Wicomb here, in good company with the late Geoffrey Bindman.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Our Winter Sale is here!
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our Winter Sale is here!
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
Enjoy 50% off all books from 21 – 30 November.
Explore stories that inspire, challenge and delight, with proceeds supporting Taawon and The Trussell Trust.
Use code WINTER50 at checkout.
Exclusions apply.
www.saqibooks.com
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Happy brithday Nadine Gordimer! Born on this day, 20th of November, 1923.
A powerful voice against the horrors of apartheid in her home country of South Africa, her works include A Guest of Honour (1970) and The Conservationist (1974). She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A powerful voice against the horrors of apartheid in her home country of South Africa, her works include A Guest of Honour (1970) and The Conservationist (1974). She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy brithday Nadine Gordimer! Born on this day, 20th of November, 1923.
A powerful voice against the horrors of apartheid in her home country of South Africa, her works include A Guest of Honour (1970) and The Conservationist (1974). She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A powerful voice against the horrors of apartheid in her home country of South Africa, her works include A Guest of Honour (1970) and The Conservationist (1974). She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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This award gives emerging writers a free course, retreat and mentoring. You need to be unpublished but it closes on 30th November so get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
Emerging Writer Award - The Bridge Awards
The Emerging Writer Award is run in partnership with The Bridge Awards. The award winner receives a package including courses, retreat time and mentoring.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This award gives emerging writers a free course, retreat and mentoring. You need to be unpublished but it closes on 30th November so get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
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📣 We're looking for a new Treasurer!
If you're passionate about words, human rights, and good governance, we'd love to hear from you. Help guide the future of one of the world's oldest human rights organisations.
📅 Apply by 24 November ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/jobs/vacancy...
If you're passionate about words, human rights, and good governance, we'd love to hear from you. Help guide the future of one of the world's oldest human rights organisations.
📅 Apply by 24 November ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/jobs/vacancy...
Vacancy: Treasurer - English PEN
www.englishpen.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📣 We're looking for a new Treasurer!
If you're passionate about words, human rights, and good governance, we'd love to hear from you. Help guide the future of one of the world's oldest human rights organisations.
📅 Apply by 24 November ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/jobs/vacancy...
If you're passionate about words, human rights, and good governance, we'd love to hear from you. Help guide the future of one of the world's oldest human rights organisations.
📅 Apply by 24 November ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/jobs/vacancy...
Anti-Apartheid Movement humour 🇿🇦
#OtD 16 Nov 1984 2000 Black tenants were arrested near Johannesburg, South Africa, for not paying rent. They said that they couldn't as they had burned down the rent office, but apparently the police didn't consider this a valid excuse stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8823...
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Anti-Apartheid Movement humour 🇿🇦
Amid the global outpouring of tributes to the legendary activist #AliceWong, many of the obits are neglecting to mention Alice’s incredible efforts in solidarity with Gazans.
You can contribute to this fund here in Alice’s memory.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
You can contribute to this fund here in Alice’s memory.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Amid the global outpouring of tributes to the legendary activist #AliceWong, many of the obits are neglecting to mention Alice’s incredible efforts in solidarity with Gazans.
You can contribute to this fund here in Alice’s memory.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
You can contribute to this fund here in Alice’s memory.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
It’s hard to comprehend the reactionary lunacy that’s overtaken this Labour Government. Every day, a new low.
This thread by @emergencybod.medsky.social rebuts it all — succinctly and with perfect eloquence.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
This thread by @emergencybod.medsky.social rebuts it all — succinctly and with perfect eloquence.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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 12:46 PM
It’s hard to comprehend the reactionary lunacy that’s overtaken this Labour Government. Every day, a new low.
This thread by @emergencybod.medsky.social rebuts it all — succinctly and with perfect eloquence.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
This thread by @emergencybod.medsky.social rebuts it all — succinctly and with perfect eloquence.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Join Deepa Bhasthi – our inaugural International Translator in Residence – for her second online workshop next Saturday, 22 November. This is a unique opportunity for an intimate learning experience with an International Booker Prize-winning translator.
How to Be or Not Be a Translator: A Workshop Series by Deepa Bhasthi
Attend four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, Deepa Bhasthi.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Join Deepa Bhasthi – our inaugural International Translator in Residence – for her second online workshop next Saturday, 22 November. This is a unique opportunity for an intimate learning experience with an International Booker Prize-winning translator.
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FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
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We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
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🚨 We are looking for an experienced editor to lead our Enablers team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract
Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months
Location: London (hybrid)
Deadline: Wednesday 26th November
Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months
Location: London (hybrid)
Deadline: Wednesday 26th November
We’re hiring! Apply to be our Enablers Editor (Maternity cover)
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨 We are looking for an experienced editor to lead our Enablers team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract
Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months
Location: London (hybrid)
Deadline: Wednesday 26th November
Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience
Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months
Location: London (hybrid)
Deadline: Wednesday 26th November
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
ALL the Magnitsky Awards winners are incredible, brave & deserving. But this recognition of Laura Souief, whose prolonged hunger strike in support of her incarcerated son, Alaa, is very special.
Huge congratulations to both of them.
@billbrowder.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to both of them.
@billbrowder.bsky.social
BREAKING: Laila Soueif and Alaa Abd El-Fattah are the 2025 Magnitsky Award winners for “Courage Under Fire”. In the face of immense personal cost, their courage in standing up for human rights and freedom continues to inspire worldwide.
#MagnitskyAwards
#MagnitskyAwards
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
ALL the Magnitsky Awards winners are incredible, brave & deserving. But this recognition of Laura Souief, whose prolonged hunger strike in support of her incarcerated son, Alaa, is very special.
Huge congratulations to both of them.
@billbrowder.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to both of them.
@billbrowder.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A brilliant piece investigating just who is behind this flag fandango. Such excellent reporting from the @manchestermill.bsky.social.
Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A brilliant piece investigating just who is behind this flag fandango. Such excellent reporting from the @manchestermill.bsky.social.
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Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reminder: WE'RE HIRING!
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers
We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November.
For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers