Fosstodon

SteveNational treasure Michael Rosen hilariously rips into Keir Starmer<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KeirStarmer</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/03/michael-rosen-keir-starmer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/03/michael-rosen-keir-starmer/</a>

CheshireMy island of strangers: a poem <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/my-island-of-strangers-poem-michael-rosen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/my-island-of-strangers-poem-michael-rosen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a>

eejayes<a href="https://glasgow.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> Island of Strangers – Culture Matters <a href="https://www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-strangers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-strangers/</a>

GregWe're going on a bear hunt... (by Michael Rosen) <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/michaelrosen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#michaelrosen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/weregoingonabearhunt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weregoingonabearhunt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/naturephotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturephotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/parenting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parenting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spring?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spring</a>

Colin RowatA line from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a>'s Getting Better: after the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/invasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invasion</a> of France, "the Italians were protecting Jews" in Nice, requisitioning boats to help them escape to North Africa. Are the Italians fishing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#refugees</a> from North Africa out of the Mediterranean descendants of the ones who almost rescued Rosen's uncles?

kriykatVijay Prashad: Tears of Our Children <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/03/vijay-prashad-tears-of-our-children/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/03/vijay-prashad-tears-of-our-children/</a> From Palestine to Sudan, imperialist wars are destroying the lives of innocent children, leaving long-term physical and psychological wounds on those who survive. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research A study came out in December that made me cry.&#8230; <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Afghanistan</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Analysis</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commentary</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedNations</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/VijayPrashad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VijayPrashad</a>

Estelle Platini"The impetus is on organisations, probably businesses and charities." "It's not about what individuals think. It’s about what organisations do."• When people try to change the British political landscape, they make demands of boycott on British cultural institutions: <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp</a> • When people try to change the German political landscape, they make demands of boycott on German cultural institutions: <a href="https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html</a> • When people try to change the Israeli political landscape, they make demands of boycott on Israeli cultural institutions: <a href="https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/</a>Francesca Newton: <a href="https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/freeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freeSpeech</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NaomiKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaomiKlein</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JacquelineRose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JacquelineRose</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MiriamMargolyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiriamMargolyes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/culturalBoycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culturalBoycott</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/israelBoycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israelBoycott</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/antiZionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antiZionism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#faculty</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CulturalBoycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CulturalBoycott</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israel</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/israelGazaWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israelGazaWar</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#higherEd</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicFreedom</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dissent</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ashlaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ashlaa</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#university</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ShalhoubKevorkian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShalhoubKevorkian</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/theocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theocracy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JewishState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JewishState</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/campus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#campus</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/campuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#campuses</a>

PeteI love <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> and his writing.In his poem, "Fascism: I sometimes fear..." (2014), Michael says:[fascism] doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."I understand what he's saying, that the appealing side of fascism is what gets it's proponents elected.However, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> and others are now saying the bad part out loud.<a href="https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

StephieThe Michael Rosen letter on Israel’s genocide that the Guardian/Observer doesn’t want to show you.<a href="https://archive.is/FHHF7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/FHHF7</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a>🇵🇸

Mactonex<a href="https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@girlonthenet</a> don’t know if you’ve ever seen this? Michael Rosen talking about grief and the poems of Raymond Carver. Has me in tears every time. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p07cvfth/michael-rosen-how-poetry-helped-me-to-grieve-" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p07cvfth/michael-rosen-how-poetry-helped-me-to-grieve-</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grief</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/RaymondCarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RaymondCarver</a>

Pete<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@whitingx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@whitingx</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@codinghorror</a> Cf: <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a>'s poem:Fascism: I sometimes fear...Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you...Full poem here:<a href="https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html</a>

Culture | The Guardian USFive of the best books about grief <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/22/five-of-the-best-books-about-grief" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/22/five-of-the-best-books-about-grief</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Deathanddying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deathanddying</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/CariadLloyd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CariadLloyd</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/MaxPorter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaxPorter</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a>

Pete<a href="https://mastodon.social/@juglugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@juglugs</a> I wish <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> would leave <a href="https://mas.to/tags/xitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xitter</a>, but it's his main platform, along with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a>, for his work. He has hundreds of thousands of followers. I think the thought of making the leap is probably quite daunting. It would be great if Mastodon superusers were able to help high profile people in the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#migration</a>.

Pete<a href="https://mastodon.social/@juglugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@juglugs</a> Cf. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a>'s poem: Fascism: I sometimes fear...<a href="https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a>

BBC Radio 4A special comedy edition of Michael Rosen's Word of Mouth, with Isy Suttie (includes the song she wrote in Welsh after she'd learnt the language to impress her boyfriend).<a href="https://bbc.in/49driKF" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bbc.in/49driKF</a><a href="https://social.bbc/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comedy</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/standup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#standup</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/IsySuttie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IsySuttie</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

Rajan Naidu<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParablesForOurTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ParablesForOurTimes</a> <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/parables-for-our-times/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/parables-for-our-times/</a>

Jennifer Moore 😷Michael Rosen on surviving covid & our callous government

Bob JamiesonIn these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down Michael Rosen The sentence was created to make sense of the world, but some things are beyond logic. Forget what you learned at school, let the words out Treat yourself. Instead of reading the rest of this article, first go and write down something that’s bothering you …<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/the-bothers-cure-write-sentence-school-michael-rosen" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/the-bothers-cure-write-sentence-school-michael-rosen</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/emotions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emotions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sadness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sadness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/feelings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feelings</a>

CheshireIn these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/the-bothers-cure-write-sentence-school-michael-rosen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/the-bothers-cure-write-sentence-school-michael-rosen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a>

Hazel (She/ Her)‘Caring Is the Greatest Thing We Can Do for Each Other’ An interview with Michael Rosen: <a href="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/07/michael-rosen-caring-is-the-greatest-thing-we-can-do-for-each-other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/07/michael-rosen-caring-is-the-greatest-thing-we-can-do-for-each-other</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/IStandWithMichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IStandWithMichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/MichaelRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRosen</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/tags/AntiRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiRacism</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#MichaelRosen