Jon McGregor
@jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
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Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America!
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America!
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.
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It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
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Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
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Final rehearsal week for The Conditional Citizen
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Final rehearsal week for The Conditional Citizen
Twice in the last fortnight I've seen someone on a bike get hit by a car, and both times the driver has started shouting about it being the other person's fault. I feel quite strongly that if you drive your car into a human being the first words out of your miserable mouth should be "are you okay?"
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Twice in the last fortnight I've seen someone on a bike get hit by a car, and both times the driver has started shouting about it being the other person's fault. I feel quite strongly that if you drive your car into a human being the first words out of your miserable mouth should be "are you okay?"
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our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
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The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
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Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.
Raymond Queneau. A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, 1961
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
My classroom policy on AI is: this is the only AI we will be using in the classroom.
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This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to.
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This photo of Alaa Abdel Fattah's smile by Mohamed El Raai is the most beautiful thing you could wake up to.
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Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza.
Sally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme
20 authors, including Viet Thanh Nguyen and Abdulrazak Gurnah, call on the French president to restart scheme to help creatives evacuate
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza.
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Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.
August 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.
I concur / endorse / second / echo this suggestion.
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I concur / endorse / second / echo this suggestion.
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Screenwriter of 'Top Boy' and 'Mobland', Ronan Bennett, on the recent Palestine Action ban: "Mr Starmer, Ms Cooper, go fuck yourselves and fuck your legislation too" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested
Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Screenwriter of 'Top Boy' and 'Mobland', Ronan Bennett, on the recent Palestine Action ban: "Mr Starmer, Ms Cooper, go fuck yourselves and fuck your legislation too" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
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Francesca Albanese will be remembered as one of the bravest women of the era, standing against genocide despite the daunting forces arrayed against her. Sanctioning her, rather than the war criminals who are starving and murdering Palestinians is another moment of shame for the US trib.al/Oe77sph
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for investigating Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave.
trib.al
July 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Francesca Albanese will be remembered as one of the bravest women of the era, standing against genocide despite the daunting forces arrayed against her. Sanctioning her, rather than the war criminals who are starving and murdering Palestinians is another moment of shame for the US trib.al/Oe77sph
I think this book is a strange and shimmering joy
The UK paperback of PRACTICE is out next month! I am henceforth modelling myself after this print (adapted slightly for the cover) by Lucie Spartacus: jumper, book, coffee, yellow. When is it time to go back to school?
July 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I think this book is a strange and shimmering joy
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Book workers / creatives - share & sign. the proscribing of Palestine Action sets an incredibly dangerous precedent docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Author Statement on the Right to Freedom of Speech
Author Statement on the Right to Freedom of Speech 27 June 2025 Sign the statement here. We are writers, editors, publishers and organisations who care about freedom of expression. Between us we ho...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Book workers / creatives - share & sign. the proscribing of Palestine Action sets an incredibly dangerous precedent docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Almost every paragraph of this article describes another atrocity or war crime, with first-hand testimony from Israeli soldiers.
Beyond obscene, and the callous indifference of the UK political and media establishment equally so.
archive.ph/3LjoW
Beyond obscene, and the callous indifference of the UK political and media establishment equally so.
archive.ph/3LjoW
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Almost every paragraph of this article describes another atrocity or war crime, with first-hand testimony from Israeli soldiers.
Beyond obscene, and the callous indifference of the UK political and media establishment equally so.
archive.ph/3LjoW
Beyond obscene, and the callous indifference of the UK political and media establishment equally so.
archive.ph/3LjoW
Everyone: oh no I can't believe you're learning Dutch it's such a famously difficult language why would you
Dutch people:
Dutch people:
June 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Everyone: oh no I can't believe you're learning Dutch it's such a famously difficult language why would you
Dutch people:
Dutch people:
Hello my fellow Nottingham translation fans 👀 ⬇️
Tomorrow in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social !
Thursday in Margate at Fort Road Hotel Bar for The Margate Bookshop!
Thursday in Margate at Fort Road Hotel Bar for The Margate Bookshop!
June 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hello my fellow Nottingham translation fans 👀 ⬇️