Possibly 7th richest person in the UK but I think the point still stands

Delighted to have a Blood and Treasure extract in Foreign Policy today. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/b...

Just reposting this. I'm sorry about the paywall but if you register, you can read at least a few articles for free

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Someone should do a daily podcast this May on the General Strike one century on. 15 min episodes 4th to 12th May. (I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).

Arguably more significant than defections, internal party politics and the Beckhams… In 2024 there were around 3,600 suspected cases of measles. We need to challenge the nonsense spread by anti vaxxers and ensure children are protected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... news.sky.com/story/uk-los...

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

THE SECOND HOME (May 28th - please pre-order🙏🏻). A second book, a body of work. I’m so grateful I can do this again and really hope people enjoy this one. P.S. it’s set during an August bank holiday heatwave — a reminder that warmer, brighter days are coming!!! ☀️ #psychologicalthriller #novel

Airport book brain! This is very good. Though I'd argue that we are suffering as much from podcast brain.

"All told, Mr. Trump has profited from his return to the presidency by an amount of money equal to 16,822 times the median U.S. household income."

Happy #PLR day, published authors! If you aren't registered, DO IT NOW for next year: plr.bl.uk/login

Fantastic news - go Harriet! #TheTraitors

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal. Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account. It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

Thank you - I was way out of my comfort zone! Here you go with the sprouts image!

A few pics of @ginarippon.bsky.social ‘s highly entertaining talk on the neuroscience of Christmas with @cosmicshambles.com last night. Regret that I didn’t get a photo of the slide explaining why sprouts can be bad for the brain.

Oh HarperCollins, what took you so long. New CEO?

On ep 4 of Pluribus (which I really like). Is it about generative AI?

The shortest day of the year is nearly here... great advice on beating the winter blues from psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Important thread.

Delighted for my brilliant client @ginarippon.bsky.social who has won the British Psychological Society award for Popular Science book of the year for The Lost Girls of Autism. Congratulations, Gina! www.bps.org.uk/news/congrat...

“[An] excellent, state-of-the-art account of autism in girls." "Off the Spectrum" by @ginarippon.bsky.social is a @newscientist.com Book of the Year! Read more: bit.ly/4pF8U59

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton

Are you writing an unputdownable #thriller? Then it's time to put it down, book an #agent121 and find out what a #litagent thinks! 9 Dec @katebarker.bsky.social 11 Dec @mariliasavvides.bsky.social 19 Dec @amandapreston.bsky.social Book: www.iaminprint.co.uk #amwriting #thrillerbooks #thrillers

You know what would be an excellent Christmas present?

Great to hear Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald talking about her new book The Gifts of Winter on BBC All In the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social - 17 mins in. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

It’s going to take ages to calm down, isn’t it.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP

Celebrity Traitors

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

I paid £1.99 for a Twix at WHS Travel Euston yesterday. Why on earth is the promotional price for #ebooks still 99p? #amazon

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Thank you @katebarker.bsky.social . There was a section on the inaccurately negative impression of autism and autistic people that is part of this whole sorry saga. Got lost in the editing but important not to lose sight of it in the conversation 🤔😗

Proud of prof @ginarippon.bsky.social and her response to Trump's dangerous pronouncements on autism and paracetamol: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Duolingo channeling the zeitgeist

"Well what a huge surprise" - no woman, ever

If you’re around in Chelsea next Wednesday afternoon… chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/blood-an...

I'll be talking about non-fiction book proposals at this online event on 23rd Sept. Come along and ask questions! www.eventbrite.com/e/fwn-live-m...

No wonder I miss the '90s.

Just wait until the BBC, Sky, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun, and GBeebies get hold of this story of obvious and deliberate tax avoidance! JUST WAIT! <waits> <waits some more> <does today's sudoku> www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.

Americans! I am told this the three day 25% off Barnes & Noble sale period. Well, here’s something you could preorder now to benefit from that discount. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-and-...

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