The objective of every dictator is to make the truth unknowable and position themselves in that vacuum as having the only answer to all questions.

HYDRATION BREAK

To whom it may concern.

www.maptap.gg April 30 93🏆 97🔥 95🏅 99🎯 97🔥 Final score: 968 Best score yet but still feel I should've done better, especially with Ann Arbor.

Russell Brand searches for a Bible passage - with the addition of the Countdown clock music.

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How do you write a play? I don't know, but why let that stop me? Anyone have any tips on how to get started? #BookSky #Playwriting cavershamwriters.substack.com/p/dont-know-...

READING TODAY 2pm

I have two solo shows this week LINLITHGOW on Thursday 7pm www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/products/fur... READING on Saturday 2pm www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

How to recognise fascism when you see it, by the the Italian humanist and author Umberto Eco. This 14-point guide is taken from Eco's 1995 essay 'Ur-Fascism' – informed by his own experiences of Nazism in the 20th century. Umberto Eco died #OnThisDay 2016.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This took my breath away. Outstanding.

Tell me again how nobody cares about theatre, how the arts are elitist, how Shakespeare belongs in the past…

Share. Share. Share.

Please share. 💔

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading. See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix. open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #BookSky

I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading. See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix. open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #BookSky

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH FREEDOM IS SLAVERY WAR IS PEACE BOARD OF PEACE

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

I've had enough.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."

Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo. I will be taking no further questions at this point.

Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste? @breakthroughbook.bsky.social #booksky

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one! www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping? Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further… #booksky #giftsforbookworms @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Happy #AdaLovelaceday ! And here’s to all the brilliant women who broke the mould and made it important and vital (if often overlooked ) contributions to the worlds of STEM ! If not from a scientist then from a punter who is in awe and has women scientist driving her novels… #booksky

Just bought a couple of cracking reads for #BookshopDay from Alex at @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social in Caversham, Berkshire. @booksaremybag.bsky.social #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Happy #bookshopday! Some of my happiest moments have been during launches or events in bookshops. And there’s still such a thrill from seeing your books rubbing shoulders with other wonderful authors on the shelves… or even better, in a window, table or till display! #booksky

My local bookshop did a magnificent thing on Christmas Day in 2023 and they're doing it again this year. @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social are such an important part of our community, as are all indie shops to theirs, which is why we have #BookshopDay today to support them. Support yours! #BookSky

Ride over to Henley with me on your 1970s Raleigh Chopper and hear all about memoir writing, Alan Davies’s White Male Stand-Up and Mick Herron on what plot is just an excuse for. #BookSky #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

#London, it's #ESEA Heritage Month. Join us for a reading from my memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" @guanghwabookshop on Thursday (tomorrow) at 6:00 with my friend @hsienc

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

this exists it is called thinking

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Something to look out for, @louisaguiseauthor.bsky.social

No heating, no hot water… but I’m writing on gas 🔥 Read my new short story, plus reflections on Orwell, Didion, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of words. Also: the four-letter word we need to reclaim… open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky