Giles Spackman

It was wrong to believe that 'saving the economy' was an alternative to 'saving people's lives’. If anything it is the other way around and the two goals go together so that countries that kept the health impact of the pandemic lower suffered smaller economic consequences.

A great first game for the 1st XI - a 5-3 win against Bloxham. Goals for Sasha Withers-Green x2, Izzy Rees x2 and Connie Jones. Some great hockey and benefits of an extended preseason evident. #edwardiangold #hatetheshirtlovethegame @TeddiesHockey @TeddiesSport @TeddiesSport

The UK's biggest one-day celebration of poetry has BEGUN. Across the nation, millions will unleash their inner poet, by sharing a poem. Find out more on what we have in store today in our newsletter - mailchi.mp/forwardartsfou…

GMO’s Montier: stocks are ‘absurd’ ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/08/13/159… via @FinancialTimes

This feels like a reason for a party. Or for lots of parties. Come on board. Look out for chances #MeetThePoet with the new look #ForwardPrizes

Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs, Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. WH Auden

Thank you for tweeting, reading, clapping, watching and reading along with our 28th #ForwardPrizes! We’ve had a wonderful evening and congratulations once again to our winners!

Jeff Bezos’s master plan: @franklinfoer on what the Amazon founder wants, and what that means for the rest of us. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Want to relive Sunday's 2-0 win at the Etihad..? Of course you do. Here are our alternative highlights from an incredible afternoon in Manchester. 🎶 @methodsmusik

The iPhone comes out in 2007 and changes the camera industry. Amazing to see a 90% decline in just 10 years after growth for decades Amazing that something can go from peak to trough in exact 10 Makes you ask- What’s the next product where this will happen?

#NationalPoetryDay - the UK's biggest one day celebration of #poetry - is on. Whatever you're doing to mark it, we want to hear from you!

Dilbert Classics for September 07, 2019 | GoComics.com gocomics.com/dilbert-classi… via @GoComics

It's #PoetryThursday and it's PUBLICATION DAY for The Forward Book of Poems 2020! This year’s cover has been designed by the by the marvellous @mrkeenan, making it gorgeous both inside and out.

Now that is a proper word: floccinaucinihilipilification!

Why all things are not equal in the measure of inequality ft.com/content/f55d81… via @financialtimes

Wendell Berry's poem Enemies: "You must not think of them again, except as monsters like yourself, pitiable because unforgiving."

Oxford folk. I am interviewing @KateClanchy1 on July 23rd at the Pegasus Theatre to launch pamphlets created by her students with @soshunetwork & the support of #ForwardArtsFoundation. Please spread the word & LMK if you can come. @carolinlees @gilesspackman @FelicityBryan

Poem of the Day: Immigrant Picnic - poetryfoundation.org/poems/40607/im…