Happy World Frog Day. This beauty was purchased from a Moroccan artist last week at the oasis at Tiout.

Utter Shit. Disgraced hedge funder Crispin Odey’s reaction after a temp agency complained about his behaviour to a young female assistant and refused to have anything more to do with his firm.

Let me introduce you to the new head of the British Taliban - Danny Kruger, who, like a lot of US fascists, was born to South African parents. What an awful twerp he is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don’t think I’ve read an issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social so quickly before! This is outstanding! Do get a copy if you can. 👍

Palestinian Action activists remanded for nearly 2 yrs. Yet no one jailed for Enabling abuser Mohammed Fayed Banking scandals Grenfell cladding Post Office scandal PPE frauds. Try to stop a genocide in the UK and you get prison without trial.Anything else is fine.

Great read, The Old Enemy, by Henry Porter. V timely. Ready for another. @henrycporter.bsky.social He’s written some bangers

There was a UK Epstein. His name was Mohammed Fayed and Vanity Fair did go after him and then I spent two years investigating allegations of sexual abuse in defence of a libel suit. We proved the case beyond doubt. But this wasn't just about libel laws; police corruption was key to his survival.

This is the final paragraph of Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion on Trump's illegal tariffs. These 250 words are all you need to understand the issue at stake and why yesterday's decision was so important. Worth a read.

EXACTLY. This is the question that UK journalists *should* be asking.

I spent 7 years at the @washingtonpost.com. Did some of the best work of my career. Had some of the best times of my life. The people responsible for the misery that is about to unfold will probably fail up, which is a damn shame. There will be a time for recriminations. But today...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

This May’s elections are expected to bring chaos because our voting system is broken. I’ve written to my MP to push for fairer elections before it’s too late. It takes 2 minutes to do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... @compassoffice.bsky.social

Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected. Small businesses were the hardest hit.

Wayland's Smithy in its autumnal coat.

This is me on Labour’s gift of oppressive demonstration laws to Farage. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pro...

#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