Happy Birthday (a day late) to the great Will Eisner.

Weird how creating conditions where powerful people never have to face real accountability leads to powerful people abusing their power. Who could have predicted that?

He’s right. There’s literally no other possible way of doing it…

The brilliant Beauty Banks, which fights hygiene poverty (as they say, imagine not being able to go to school clean, or with no sanitary products on your period) by supporting hundreds of charities up and down the country. They’re in a bit of trouble. Can you help? www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

In many ways, toxic men not getting Breaking Bad is exactly what Breaking Bad was about

Brilliant 👏👏👏 First we had the Swedish Chef, now the Norwegian Enshittificator. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

so many things to like and appreciate about A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS but looming large among them is dan romer's incredible score ... we're so lucky to have this show!!!

The drawing for this (and some other pieces are) up now at: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

If you think the BBC should be impartial then this is the place to let them know. If you don’t want to pay for the BBC or have to watch adverts then this is the place to let them know. You can‘t complain about the BBC unless you get involved

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety. venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars. child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me. mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed. mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

“Cremuel, dude.”

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

'Barbara Keeley, a Labour peer, said the UK’s creative industries faced a “clear and present danger” from AI firms using their work without credit or payment.' Footnote: the @writersguildgb.bsky.social is doing excellent work to fight this blatant theft of people's livelihoods. Join your union!

'You broke my heart, dude.'

The Peril of the Brutal Dark is SOLD OUT and going back to the printers!! www.dc.com/blog/2026-03...

Getting some tranction on this, which is also my chance to say I am thrilled that Betty Gilpin has been cast in S2 of The Lowdown.

quite apart from Kemi Badenoch's dismal performance on BBC Breakfast, minimising the work of the RAF, she spoke of Labour 'not being built' for conflict because they came into power to do things like 'breakfast clubs' in such a disparaging way, like feeding kids is a joke ambition

Shut up about the flags, says local politician who spent £75k putting in just 164 flags nobody wanted and nobody needed, while the roads have become more uneven and potholey than when the romans built some of them

Can’t say I identify strongly with anyone who calls themselves an ‘equity punk’, but if I just lost a ton of money from investing in Brewdog and then the multi millionaire owner emailed that last paragraph to me, I’d get in my ford fiesta and go drive it through his open plan country mansion.

Just looked through writing gigs on LinkedIn, half of which turn out to be training AI when you click on them. Came back on Bluesky and to find someone complaining that writers who want to be paid for their work are "money grabbing twats". Sometimes I think people deserve gen AI slop.

Finally!

I know this seems like a joke. But I actually think it would be brilliant

Scorsese’s Great Gatsby

Albion returns to print in 2026 with a new collection courtesy of The Treasury of British Comics! Classic comic characters return in Albion plotted by the legendary Alan Moore, scripted by the team of Leah Moore & John Reppion, with art by Shane Oakley. treasuryofbritishcomics.com/news/albion-...

Happy world book day to those who celebrate! If anyone dressed up as a character from my Haru series, let me know and I'll send you a little print as a thank you for supporting my book!

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

Great advertising slogans we have known. Elegant, memorable, funny.

"Where’s the soul searching about why voters might have defected to a challenger from the left? Why, in God’s name, did anyone think it was a good idea to imply a large chunk of Labour’s coalition is, in fact, stupid?" Newsletter out. Bit angry.

As it’s World Book Day, why not read Making Movies, Sidney Lumet’s superb book about his filmmaking process. Here’s a telling anecdote about Akira Kurosawa that shows how important pragmatism is in the creative process.

"And yet Starmer’s statement made me more likely to vote for them. Because I have friends who’ve joined the Greens, and they are neither frenzied sectarians nor simply stupid."

New Cafe Chaos book out very soon, Catie Wilkins fans!

I wonder if on one of the Indian channels some middle-aged comedian is being sent around Britain, getting the Thameslink to St Albans, sampling pey wet in Wigan, poignantly observing that there are homeless folk on the streets even in Knightsbridge, and so forth bsky.app/profile/jack...

🥳 HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY! I was lucky enough to chat to Sara Cox for the latest episode of Radio 2 Book Club, where we talked about all things WBD and Bunny Vs Monkey! You can listen to it on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social

I don’t want to criticise our writing masters but the baby shoes were probably just smaller than the newborn’s feet by the time they required them - annoying but happens all the time. That baby’s doing fine and fat as hell.

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

Like AI slop, prediction markets seem to me to be a symbol of moral decay. Even without the allegations of insider trading, few activities are grubbier or more cheapening than gambling on a war.

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:

By the way that "Windows 12" article you've all seen? It's an awful clickbait website known for posting absolute bollocks and literally nobody else is reporting it. You can probably breath easy (or as easy as you can with Windows 11, suckers!)

Asif Aziz evictions story is going mainstream. Telegraph and Independent have covered in recent days. Now the FT has done a brilliant piece - including finding another property affected, where a Ukrainian refugee and their disabled son are being evicted by Aziz. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

bloody HELL