#FridayReads - loved @henrycporter.bsky.social's most recent title, so slowly picking through the back-list... the geopolitics may have changed in the last few years, but the human stories remain. Thrilling and full of empathy. Excellent work 📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j...

With the Israeli blockade in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians, writes @henrycporter.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

A Small boast: U.S. Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far, which considering this is the first thriller I know of that’s set in Milton Keynes isn’t half bad. Very happy .

My Enigma Girl is out in paperback and ready to fill your mind. It’s my favourite of my ten books and it seems that it’s everyone else’s too. www.amazon.co.uk/Enigma-Girl-...

It is incredible how many mainstream parties - in multiple countries - think they can win elections by loudly agreeing with extremists. “Farage is right; vote for me!” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.” No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time. And it’s coming to your city next.

“No amount of tweed or the flat cap he wore will disguise the agenda of an urban political chancer.” @henrycporter.bsky.social on Nigel Farage’s attire: www.prospectmagazine...

Nigel Farage may dress up like a farmer to address rural constituents, but his attire is “a parody, and betrays the truth that Farage has spent most of his life in London and its suburbs,” writes @henrycporter.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Bronze ibis head. Egypt, late dynastic to Ptolemaic, ca. 664-32 BC. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection

Brian Greene explains the double-slit experiment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

🥳🎂🥂 Happy Birthday @henrycporter.bsky.social from @chazzasteinway.bsky.social and all your 📚🦋 fans in Campden. Looking forward to catching up with you and ENIGMA GIRL in May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Friday Night 9 May #crime night with Kate Summerscale THE PEEPSHOW @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social long list #nonfiction @womensprize.bsky.social + espionage #thriller: @henrycporter.bsky.social The Enigma Girl @quercusbooks.bsky.social Book online campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

THE ENIGMA GIRL one of @thetimes.com 10 Best Thrillers of 2024 📚🦋 @booksky.bsky.social AND @henrycporter.bsky.social will be with us in May in the beautiful North Cotswolds to chat about it with Sue Cook Book Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

My @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of @henrycporter.bsky.social's Enigma Girl:

These titles and more + their authors at our Spring Festival 9 - 12 April in #miltonkeynes. Download a programme: mklitfest.org/downloads Tickets on sale now! @henrycporter.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @hallierubenhold.bsky.social @sanjanafeasts.bsky.social #books

Celebrate #Bookday 📚: buy tickets for May evening of Fiction #authors with @henrycporter.bsky.social espionage thriller and @bellamackie.bsky.social mystery murder www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Read ahead with books from @borzoibookshop.bsky.social

Friday Night #crime night with Kate Summerscale THE PEEPSHOW @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social long list #nonfiction @womensprize.bsky.social + espionage #thriller: @henrycporter.bsky.social The Enigma Girl @quercusbooks.bsky.social Book online campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

This new reporting is a very big deal. The previously reported number for the amount of money Elon Musk has gotten from the government—us—was slightly over $18 billion. We now know the figure is $38 billion. When you consider how much of Musk's wealth is actually liquid—very little—that is a ton.

This is the way.

"This is a reset BP, with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value.” BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year and slash green ambitions 👇 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Little by little, after an initial period of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to President Donald Trump is beginning to wake up.

BBC slammed for pulling film that 'humanised Palestinian children' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-slammed-pulling-film-humanised-palestinian-children

The contempt for empathy, the dismissal of compassion. this may be the new world order, but we think there's an alternative. Come to help us raise money for people returning to Gaza on February 25. Huge line up. Wine, music, film and poetry. Tickets here - tinyurl.com/mr3wxkdh

Participants include @akischilz.bsky.social @henrycporter.bsky.social @jupiterjonz.bsky.social #AI #cancelculture #translation #censorship #creativewriting #technology #artificialintelligence #MaryWollstonecraft

We're raising cash for 100 Palestinian families for @shelterbox.bsky.social. It's a minuscule amount but better than ignoring Gaza. Join us. Fund us Repost. I need your help to get to £44k target. Thanks! www.eventbookings.com/b/event/the-... @claraandersson.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social

Come and help 100 Palestinians families returning to Gaza - an evening of readings, music, film, wine and the odd canapé. Get yourself there to the Tabernacle. Tickets and donations here >>>> tinyurl.com/mr3wxkdh

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway - Mowi to give fishers $45 per fish after loss from farm ($1.2m if all are caught!) - campaigners say the escape a ‘disaster for wild salmon’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Why a third runway with 250,000 more planes a year is the last thing London's lungs need. https://buff.ly/3WPZ1pd

A fascinating article by @henrycporter.bsky.social on @crimereads.bsky.social about finding his modern character’s family roots. The Second World War is still fertile ground for thriller authors. crimereads.com/henry-porter...

A lot of us can leave Gaza, of course, to go back to our homes that was stolen from us by Israel in 1948

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

This is a very good leading article about class and inequality. I would just add that we need not be bound by our backgrounds. My parents were upper-middle class (quite posh). But I want a far more equal society, where the rich have less and the poor have more. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

The Convention is holding an event in aid of @shelterbox.bsky.social to raise money for tents for 100 families retuning to Gaza. A drop in the ocean, we know, but I'd be grateful for ticket sales/ contributions and reposts. Many Thanks. tinyurl.com/mr3wxkdh

SCOOP: RFK Jr. secretly recorded his second wife during their bitter divorce fight and in one conversation acknowledged he was "polygamous" and blamed her for that. One recording might have violated state law—in a messy saga that ended with her suicide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Massive rally in Berlin against against far-right fascism. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

UN experts intervene over harsh detention conditions in Palestine Action case - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-experts-intervene-filton-18-palestine-action-case

‘I consider my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and wrong.’ It turns out Lord Mandelson could sink even lower

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

@ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social‬ Can we speak about an event I'm putting on on Feb 25 for Gaza in aid of ShelterBox? Would love you to speak. Programme of readings music and speeches being assembled now. Best H P

10,000 of 3,000,000 millionaires left the country last year - 0.33%. These people would rather leave than pay tax - good riddance I say. Let’s not change our approach to appease rich freeloaders.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

After invading and burning Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia, Israel arrested Dr. Hussam Abu Safia- the hospital's general director, a man who refused to leave Jabalia and insisted on staying and helping his people. What a hero, and what an awful world that we allow this to happen.

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded. The study's best death toll estimate was 64,260, which would mean the health ministry in Gaza had under-reported the number of deaths to that point by 41 percent. This means that 2.9 % of Gaza pre Genocide population has been killed

This is Jabalia Camp where I grew up. How can this happen? Israeli monstrosity is beyond comprehension.

It was exactly a year ago today that my brother Khalid went missing. 3 days later, we found him on the road in Jabalia. He was killed by an Israeli drone attack while trying to help save my cousins. Today, I begin to mourn. Today, with the ceasefire, I and the rest of palestine begin to grieve