Out August 3rd. Succession tells the story of Everton legend Colin Harvey's time as manager of Everton, following the most successful period in the club's history, at a time of great change in English football. Early pre-sale Waterstones promotion with 25% discount coming next week. #everton

Ultimate fantasy? Probably preparing the same unmodified meal for my whole family without immediate recrimination

"You can't buy thanks" is simultaneously the most insightful, revealing and infuriating thing the nine-year-old has ever said.

A very happy Valentine's day to those of you, like me, who like to present your thrift and lack of sentiment as ideological opposition

A lot of our political leaders seem to have misinterpreted the phrase "beneath contempt" as being roughly synonymous with "under the radar"

Now, Good One: there is an accomplished debut film.

My oldest friend here with an absolutely accurate hatchet job www.jewishnews.co.uk/matt-greenes...

Injury? Experience? There's no adjective more context-dependent than "life-changing"

The good thing about working in the arts in 2026 is you said goodbye to your dignity at least a decade ago, so here I am outright asking you to consider voting for THE DEFINITIONS if you liked it and are in a position to.

Not that I have a type but these are two of my favourite films of the past two decades

“Beware the Uberwoke, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that get! Beware the rejoin bird, and shun The frumious Zero-net!”

Can't get on board with snacks at pickup. You're collecting them from school, not liberating the camps

Most enduring pleasant surprise of the decade so far is Richard Ayoade writing cheques in The Souvenir part 1 that Richard Ayoade in The Souvenir part 2 can 100% cash

My one career ambition is to reach the level where when people haven't heard of me it's performative

📣 New podcast! In this episode of The Writing Life Podcast, novelist Matt Greene shares the process of writing his latest novel, 'The Definitions' – a work of dystopian fiction which interrogates and plays with the relationship between language, memory and the self. 🎧 buff.ly/ux58x0w

I usually mildly to strongly dislike talking about my work but last year I got to go on one of my favourite shows and I had a lovely, lovely time nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/get-involved...

The thing about getting an ASD diagnosis for your 9-year-old after a two year wait is it's a lot like a fireman telling you your house is on fire: you're grateful for the expert opinion but it isn't primarily a diagnostic problem.

No Other Choice. Can only speak to the first hour but that was proper, proper dogshit

Absolutely *zero* interest in defending Chomsky but this is also the email I send if I've had the worst night of my life and have no intention of ever seeing this person again

Thought of a dumb football joke. Players celebrating in front of booing fans after a three nil loss. Commentator: "This team really don't know when they're beaten"

Veganism severely tested this morning by the copy on the side of this carton of Oatly and the anti-Babe effect of the Peppa Pig episode the three-year-old is currently inhaling

The medial "t" in glottal stop is a good bit

I poured my heart out about Marty Supreme, Jewish identity, why the Old Testament isn’t the same book as the Torah and what it takes to survive trauma open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Children are the ultimate oulipian constraint

The thing I really don't think you can appreciate unless you have kids and jobs (plural) yourself is the way every day escalates and escalates like a fucking Safdie brothers film

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Absolutely lost it remembering how hilariously shit the Australian Traitors was. Episode 2 the task was 'right, lads, swimming race' and one of the contestants tried to drown someone. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

Apropos nothing in particular, I hate the way as a culture we talk about art - spoiler warnings, endings explained etc. A story is not a puzzle or merely a delivery mechanism for information, it's an experience. Its meaning cannot be reduced. The way we talk about stories is so infantile. I hate it.

I, a person who is allergic to coins and eats wasps for sustenance, find this analogy offensive and flawed

And Uncle Boomee who CAN recall his past lives

Noooooooooo!

If your film doesn't feature a scene of two female characters discussing something other than how to make a white sauce then it's failed the Bechamel Test

What if Mein Kampf is just a preamble to his grandma's recipe for strawberry cheesecake?

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Disappointing. "Treblinkandyoullmissit" was right there.

Very belatedly reading Crossroads and you know what Franzen does *so* well at his best? He gives his fiction the quality of really good gossip.

Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.

Can't get over the fact a 6-year-old was dropped off at nursery and will never see their mother again because she attempted to perform a three-point turn and because a racist president is historically unpopular. Imagine trying to make sense of that. Imagine explaining that to your kid.

Went on @npr.org to discuss Trump's extrajudicial kidnapping of the leader of a sovereign nation. Not really, it was to promote my book, quite ineptly www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...

A good dystopia would be if half the things people claim are obligatory online actually were

Someone should warn you, if you write a book, one day you might have to talk about it.

Offered objectively: here's the only end of year list that matters

Look, I don't know what I was expecting but only three of these films aren't remakes, adaptations or franchise sequels, and of those three one is based on the life of John Bishop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminded once again that pigs in blankets contains in one phrase a rare brutal truth and, far too late, the wooliest possible euphemism. A phrase that realises halfway through that it's absolutely fucked it

8-year-old interrogating partner and me about contents of his presents. He's got us in separate rooms and and has told me that she's confessed

Honestly, no-one out there doing it quite like David Keenan. The way that man does voice, it's a channelling, it's possession.

It's been a busy day because life is like that so I'm only now reading up on the victims of yesterday's attack, and fucking hell, man, what kind of world is this

FYI

Too much fucking perspective. Fucking hell. RIP to a legend. Far, far too soon.