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Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Researchers from @sheffielduni.bsky.social visited nearly 6,000 houses across 42 developments , and this is what they found .

Read the summary and/or full version here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
Lost Nature - housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments. - Wild Justice
Below you will find two versions of the Lost Nature report; a summary version (20 pages) and a full report […]
wildjustice.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.
A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry 1. Impressionism Roses sway in softened reds, Violets swim in murky blues, Sugar sparkles in the light, Blurring into golden you. 2. Surrealism Roses are melting, Violets are too. Ceci n’est pas le sucre. Keith is a giant crab 3. Social Realism Roses are dead, Violence is rife. Don’t sugar coat This bitter life. 4. Abstract Expressionism Are and. Violets roses so. You sweet blue. Are are red is sugar 5. Pop Art Roses go BLAM! Violets go POW! Sugar is COOL! You are so WOW! 6. Conceptual Art Roses are red, Coated in blood: A deer’s severed head Drips from above 7. Pointillism Roses have black spot, You’re spotty, too. Sugar is granulated. I’m dotty for you 8. Minimalism
November 16, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.
Word Crunching I  wrote  a poem  on a page  but then each line grew  to the word sum of the previous two  until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency  because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency  Brian Bilston
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM