Retired English/Literacy/EAL teacher. Energised by kids, conversation and connections....'What makes a fire burn is the space between the logs'
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Diane Leedham retweeted
14 Dec 2025
Sunny is offline for health reasons. Please keep boosting news from Palestine and Gaza fundraisers. And please please please keep donating, supporting & boosting the fundraisers as the need is great and urgent
14 Oct 2025
Sunny will be offline for health reasons. We will repost as per her instructions but won’t be able to quote or reply for her. Please keep donating and sharing Gaza fundraisers and boosting Palestinian voices. The need is great and urgent and we must not falter in our solidarity
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Diane Leedham retweeted
This beautiful essay by the incomparable Alaa Alqaisi.
arablit.org/2025/12/11/shrin…
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Diane Leedham retweeted
18 Nov 2025
Morning friends. After some difficult weeks, I am back online. I will still have limited time here so once again I will be primarily be sharing news from Palestine and Gaza fundraisers. Please keep donating, supporting & boosting the fundraisers as the need is great and urgent
14 Oct 2025
Sunny will be offline for health reasons. We will repost as per her instructions but won’t be able to quote or reply for her. Please keep donating and sharing Gaza fundraisers and boosting Palestinian voices. The need is great and urgent and we must not falter in our solidarity
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Diane Leedham retweeted
18 Nov 2025
This is appalling, dangerous for this dedicated brave journalist and very revealing of fascistic western Big Tech. Can we please stop relying on Large Learning Models for information (PS there is nothing intelligent about them so calling them AI is daft).
16 Nov 2025
That's extremely awful and mendacious. @grok is making up falsehoods to smear me.
I don't even have a Facebook account. There's nothing I did on Oct7th & I don't belong to any political party.
This is deeply disturbing, not because of me, but because of the outright lies in it
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Diane Leedham retweeted
17 Nov 2025
Let's not even start with other intersections of exclusion. Publishing's idea of inclusion is flimsy at best
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Diane Leedham retweeted
29 Oct 2025
We have "collectively been thinking about possibility, speculation and hope, all of which today feels vital and immediate."
Read @jhalakreview editor Guy Gunaratne on hope, imagination and writing the future in our Autumn 2025 issue: jhalakreview.substack.com/p/…
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Diane Leedham retweeted
18 Oct 2025
"Can words heal us, astound us, make us cry, make us feel, change who we are — and how do we make words do that?"
@AntonHur shares writing routines, future plans, and reflections on the aesthetic sensitivity essential to translation:
tinyurl.com/3bt25h74
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Diane Leedham retweeted
22 May 2025
I fear Germany (and a lot of the ‘West’) is setting the stage for antisemitic mass violence. This explicit conflation of Israeli and Jewish by Spiegel just as many of Europe’s press and politicians begin to use the term genocide should worry all of us
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22 May 2025
Spiegel call the Israeli embassy in DC “the Jewish embassy”.
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Diane Leedham retweeted
8 May 2025
Thanks to everyone who came along to the launch of I’m Going to Make a Friend. Such a lovely evening hosted by @Ink84Books and organised by @LittleTigerUK
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Diane Leedham retweeted
12 May 2025
Enoch Powell in the ‘rivers of blood’ speech:
‘But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For they found themselves made strangers in their own country.’
12 May 2025
'We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.'
Sir Keir Starmer announces measures which he says will help control the number of immigrants coming into the country to live and work.
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Diane Leedham retweeted
12 May 2025
Taken literally, ‘Island of Strangers’ is nonsensical. But symbolically it weaves Powellism, notions of belonging, and blood and soil nationalism into one phrase. And it further emboldens the racists.
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Diane Leedham retweeted
13 May 2025
I think it's a big mistake to accept the framing of 'island of strangers' and then argue about it. The implied notion of nation as family is insidious - it's not something we should be aiming for.
13 May 2025
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Diane Leedham retweeted
15 May 2025
"The Nakba continues until today."
77 years ago today, Huda's father was one of more than 800,000 Palestinians forced from their homes when the state of Israel was created.
Today, Huda's neighbours and community in Sheikh Jarrah are threatened with eviction by the Israeli authorities from the place they sought refuge after 1948. #NakbaDay77 #NakbaDay #Nakba
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Diane Leedham retweeted
15 May 2025
Oh yes. Finally. The wait is always too long 😉
The latest Books for Keeps is out. We’ll be sharing our fave articles over the coming days, of course #BfK272
14 May 2025
Out now! #BfK272 May issue. Authorgraph interview Matt Goodfellow, Windows into Illustration Rébecca Dautremer, new Beyond the Secret Garden, new Picture This, plus Owning It, Peter Hunt on Alice's Oxford, comment, extra interviews, reviews & more #KidLit
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bf…
ALT The cover of the May 2025 issue of children's literature magazine Books for Keeps, featuring the cover illustration from The First Year by Matt Goodfellow, illustration by Joe Todd-Stanton, published by Otter-Barry Books. List of features includes Authorgraph with Matt Goodfellow, Windows into Illustration Rebecca Dautremer, Owning It our disabled childhoods, Explore Alice's Oxford with Peter Hunt
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Diane Leedham retweeted
17 May 2025
in these discipline policies, speaking in ‘correct grammar’, ‘standard English’, in ‘full sentences’ and not using ‘slang’ were perceived to be signs of well behaving children - whilst the opposite was true for badly behaved children. these are ideological, not empirical links.
20 Mar 2025
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/09620214.202…
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Diane Leedham retweeted
19 May 2025
📣And for all those of you who enjoy swerving Ama*zon and putting your money in to regular tax-paying companies, there’s joy over at @bookshop_org_UK where we’ve just listed the:
💚Little Rebels Award Longlist💚
uk.bookshop.org/lists/little…?
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Diane Leedham retweeted
20 May 2025
A perfectly observed sketch on the ludicrous, degenerated state of both politics and culture in Britain today.
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Diane Leedham retweeted
10 May 2025
Short 🧵For 20 months now, we have borne witness to the livestreamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We must talk of the moral injury caused by bearing witness (links in replies). But we should note that people who are looking away and silent will bear greater moral injury
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Diane Leedham retweeted
13 Apr 2025
Just got on a train at Farringdon, the 9:01pm, going to Sutton. And this has been left in the luggage rack. Let’s try and reunite it with its creator. @TfL
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