Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

"Reading for pleasure isn’t a 'nice to have', it’s a life-changer." We recently submitted evidence to the Education Select Committee’s #ReadingForPleasure inquiry. Sam from our Policy team explains why 📚 You can read our evidence here: https://bit.ly/4qunA79

Oh how sad: Cees Nooteboom has passed at 93…

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. Now, Starbucks is lifting a cap on the CEO's use of a private jet to commute from California to Seattle. It's been four years since Starbucks stores began unionizing and workers still don't have a contract.

Genuinely could not be more delighted to have Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody (illustrated by the awesome Tim Miller) on the Carnegie Longlist. I absolutely love these little weirdos, and I love writing middle grade. What a fantastic surprise. Go read the other titles on the long list too!

Will @patricknessbooks.bsky.social be the first person to win three Carnegies?

New episode up now. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, with guest Doctor Rowan Williams. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/257...

You could start here. And there is great grandeur in this episode. But you could also start anywhere. @backlisted.bsky.social is a real national treasure, I don't say that lightly. If you need inspiration to read, you'll always find it here. Bravo Andy, and all the team. Heroic, heroic stuff.

Man who doesn't turn up to do his job, tells a room full of retired people that working from home is bad.

Remind me: was this the company that stole my work? And the work of thousands of other writers?

“She should have just kept walking on that moor.” @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social talks to the Island of Brillianters re: Jane Eyre rewriting, Crosstown Doughnuts & harnessing rage. @nadiashireen.bsky.social @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social #KidLitUK podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Here's a new slogan for your Children's Laureate endeavours, 'Life's dangerous when you're delicious!'

What a joy, to have been even a small part of this! It’s all been a lark.

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

For clarity Biggest fashion brand in the world … Ralph Lauren $6.8bn. Market for “verchandise” - i.e. accessories for your avatar on Roblox / Minecraft etc. - $8bn.

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Interview with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about evil Palantir Get Palantir out of the UK now!! youtu.be/YftdpU4ElUQ?...

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

Okay folks, the ‘airplane-passengers-would-walk-out-of-Melania-if-it-was-the-in-flight-movie joke has been DONE.

It was my extreme honour to step in for Philip Larkin, who was unavailable, and speak a key line from This Be The Verse on the GREAT new single from @simonloverules.bsky.social. Preorder his new album safe in the knowledge that I appear only on one track. @backlisted.bsky.social

The #ReadingRights campaign calls for national provision so that every child has access to books and reading from their earliest years. Find out more here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...

Earlier this week, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social and BookTrust met with Barnsley #ReadingRights pilot partners at Goldthorpe Library to discuss updates on the work that’s been happening, and next steps for taking learning forwards. @barnsleycouncil.bsky.social

My guide to getting over reading block in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/12c0...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Have a #painting. "Burren Tree" is from 6 years ago. I painted it because I love stones, let alone fields of stone. And I really like walls. You know where you stand with a wall. Sometimes the dry stone ones fall down a little, but if that gives you a better view of a tree, great. #art #SpeirGhorm

Cannot for the life of me understand why it's somehow OK to treat being an M.P. as a side hustle. If you're not too busy to even think about a second job while you're an MP, you're not M.P.ing properly.

He'd ban second jobs and directorships for MPs, and make so much as accepting a curly-wurly whist in or recently having been in public office a criminal offence. That's obviously not going to happen, but it's the only thing that'll fix this.

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

On 12 February, Radio 4 Extra is repeating A Criminal Practice, a comic play by Terrance Dicks a year before he joined Doctor Who. I’ll share some background details nearer the time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

All hail the charity shop gods!

Feast of St Blaise today. Get out there and get your throat blessed.

I missed the ninth anniversary of this tweet yesterday, but it’s still… relevant

Have I got this right? Everyone hated Liz Truss' government because they were so rubbish. But now its members have left the Tory party and joined Reform. So now Liz Truss' government is leading in the polls.

KLAXON set to loudest KLAX

But sure, yes, let’s take the phones off the kids.

Great topic and so many of my favourites have already been done. One that hasn’t is The Unforgotten Coat by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social. A really heartwarming read for younger children.

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Yeats said to the audience "You have disgraced yourselves. Again."

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Jade was a Queen. Practically a punching bag for the entire series for no bloody reason #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK

NATO troops killed in Afghanistan answering the USA Article 5 call: - 453 Brits - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards What a dreadful man…

Come on now. If Trump had served in Vietnam, that war would've ended in a day. Maybe even half a day.

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

Genuine question: Is anyone in the media asking Farage directly where he stands on Trump dissing the hundreds of British troops who were killed in Afghanistan?

Good. Hopefully other conventions and festivals will continue to do the same.

By way of comparison:

Well this thread turned out to be a lovely resource for anyone who's decided to make something of the Year of Reading