Excited about my upcoming event in Wimborne on Sunday, where I'll be talking about NOTORIOUS ... Gathering a few things to show and tell ... that went into the book. Here's the first one to whet your appetite... www.ticketsource.com/wimborne-lit...

Even on Psalm Sunday?

Trigger warning: this article is full of success, hope and positivity. Lovely interview with the inspiring @london.gov.uk ♥️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tonight 11 May 19:30, @bylinetimes.bsky.social are at The Cockpit. The evening includes a conversation with @labourlewis.bsky.social and @ottoenglish.bsky.social. @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social et al will also be discussing our film The Conspiracists. 🎟️ www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

Linden Kemkaran of Reform there... head of a council that spent £600k of taxpayers money on eight free parking spaces for her and her colleagues

Mr Quigley wants immigrants to be "shot on site" before being "transferred to a holding island where they will be given 1 day to present their documents or confirm their true nationality." Apart from the disgusting, violent sentiment I can spot a bit of a flaw with this idea.

Reform UK’s new councillor Michael Quigley of Houghton South & Hetton Downs, Sunderland thinks immigrants should be “shot on site” (sic) by our armed forces and transported to an island. Horrific.

Wrong Council, Wrong Town: Christine Duffy’s Accidental Election Reform’s newest Borough Councillor didn’t quite know which Council she was elected to, turning up at the wrong Council to sign her paperwork! kidsgrove.substack.com/p/wrong-coun...

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.

Thank you to everyone who went out and bought my paperback this week. Clearly it was serendipitous to put out a book about liars, propagandists, traitors, blood suckers, turncoats, racists, populists, rebels ... and an often dishonest press... at a time of local elections.

If there's a recall then Clacton needs a strong independent candidate to go against Farage. All the other parties should stand aside

This is absolutely incredible. Lewisham council was solid Labour... a proper heartland of the party and it's gone Green

If you missed it - a caller rang in furious that she as a reform voter would be unfairly characterised as racist then ended up admitting that she thinks that crimes are worse when they’re perpetrated by Muslims. You can listen on global player. It happened at about 8.45.

Very tight Green win in Lewisham Central. Corbyn’s Your Party in last place.

Bloody hell.

If Hitler had kept his word, the USSR would have stayed his partner. The Great Patriotic War was a forced reaction, not a crusade for human rights. You cannot claim the moral high ground on Nazism when your original plan was to help them rule Europe

I'm from Essex and I hate generalisations about my mother county. Doubt Pearson has ever been there

The real story of Al Capone is indeed absolutely jaw dropping and my favourite bit of research was discovering whether he really did play banjo in the Alcatraz jazz band... much harder to prove either way than you might think

Down in Trafalgar Square with @republiccampaign.bsky.social Come along and find us if you're in town

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

People often ask me who I'd rather have had as a president than our current unelected monarchy ... Observe.

A Reform UK candidate who supported deporting all Muslim people from the UK has been elected an MSP

I don't know why anyone in another country would want to emulate the madness going on in the US under Trump.

The fact that Starmer didn't do the simple basic thing of bringing back AV for mayors is so deeply pathetic

Payne-ful

Hats off to the most stupid people in all Britain. Clayton & Fairweather Green. Bradford. They elected him.

Republic Day is TOMORROW. Join us in Trafalgar Square from 12pm for speeches and music, before marching to Buckingham Palace at 2pm. See you there! #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein #RepublicDay

Really astonishing result in Lewisham

Merseyside Reform UK election candidate who called the Holocaust a "hoax" and "propaganda" has been elected in the local elections. Disgusting people www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Capone also spent much of his life in Florida of course

I know it's bloody irritating when an author keeps promoting their new book... so let's all just agree that you'll buy it now in glorious paperback and then I can shut the f*** up about it. Thank you for your attention to the matter. #Notorious Links here linktr.ee/OttoEnglish?...

MEGA (Make England Great Again) is rising and it should frighten us all. From Farage Camps to Local Election results everything is going Reform's angry way and Britain's decent majority need to step up now. Inaction is no longer an option. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/farage-camps...

NEW: Green Party wins Hackney Mayoralty. First time Hackney Mayor hasn’t been Labour.

Exactly

Look at Kent - reduced budgets for SEND but £600K to create 8 parking spaces for councillors at the council offices. Look at Durham where they've lost a couple of by-elections because of the mess they're making. The more councils they win the clearer it is they don't understand how to govern.

If you go down to Lewisham Waterstones today... you're in for a big surprise.. if you go down to Lewisham @waterstones.bsky.social today, you'd better not close your eyes. Signed copies available

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’

I ended up signing them. So if you want my scrawl on it they're there

Ah Scotland

If you go down to Lewisham Waterstones today... you're in for a big surprise.. if you go down to Lewisham @waterstones.bsky.social today, you'd better not close your eyes. Signed copies available

Much thanks to @headlinebooks.bsky.social for making it all happen

Perfect

📢 Introducing my new daily word game, Keywords! "If Only Connect was presented by Mavis Beacon*" Like Wordle? Like Connections? Like stuff? Then there's a vague chance you'll enjoy this. Find the five connected words of increasing length by typing into the boxes. *one for the young'uns there

NOTORIOUS paperback is out today. Full of tales of spies, turncoats, scapegoats, working class revolutionaries, defiant queens, real life vampires... and that time the Isle of Lundy was an Islamic State ... it has twists.. turns.. laughs and some very modern resonances. linktr.ee/OttoEnglish