Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

listening to Lankum album by album and tbh it's a while since any music's made me toggle so violently between "ah lads are you sure" and complete and total ravishment

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

Dawn Foster forever, tbh

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

they all glowed

spending an hour at Peterborough Station, where I had to spend an hour on the actual worst day of my life, and I still viscerally hate being here

It's also noteworthy that Goodwin has a genuinely embarrassing grasp of the history here. The 1924 Act didn't "pause" immigration, it restricted it and established quotas for admission by national origin based on the 1890 census. Asian immigration was banned outright.

lol

Have you listened to mine and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social's podcast about Moby-Dick? It's like a bald man's book club where we seriously discuss the book but then I can't help myself and ask questions like "WAS JFK A WHALE?"

stop transcribing my ums and ahs, you AI bastards!

I'm back in Nairobi this week for the inquest's continuation - any journalists interested in covering feel free to DM or email me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com

walking into my Hollywood pitch meeting, writing REACHER on the whiteboard, then adding an S, then turning the S into a $

🐳 EPISODE 2 🐳 Was Herman Melville a failson? Just one question we ask in the latest episode of The Whale Pod. Listen for free at Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts from. 🔗 patreon.com/thewhalepod

Very sad to hear of the loss of a mentor, inspiration and friend. I learned a lot through playing with Andrew. I’ve also never encountered anyone who plays quite like he did, in all my years of playing with different drummers. www.hotpress.com/music/tribut...

listen to my stupid podcast that i made with my friend

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

I have received three pieces of feedback from the first episode of The Whale Pod: one is from my mam, and both the other two feature detailed fantasies about having sex with a whale. One of them was in heroic couplets

I'll be banging on about this for ages. This week I launched a brand new podcast with @pdkmitchell.bsky.social which is all about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. People have said very kind things about the first episode. Give it a listen if you want to learn and/or hear people taking the piss.

I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

I wrote about how all our politicians and media are incompetent. I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game

🐳 EPISODE 1 🐳 A brand new podcast about a book about a fish is out now. @leighsus.bsky.social (who's never read a book) and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social (who's read loads) discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, chapter-by-chapter. Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

Heaved up onto the cultural tideline amid the digital surf, like a rusty nugget of ambergris straight from a sperm whale's bum

I went to Newcastle Civic Centre and made this little video.

I’m the perennial outsider in the UK, but I think it’s strange how Toby Young was made a life peer because he made hundreds of sexist comments about female television presenters, and also was repeatedly invited to a secret white suprematist eugenics conference run out of UCL

CLR James, writing while detained as an illegal immigrant on Ellis Island in 1952

Coverage of the inquest's resumption from @chroniclelive.co.uk www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

this is who runs this account

And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow

Bedwyr Williams Made It Impossible For Me To Truly Enjoy My Local Folklore Society's Instagram Posts About Their Mindful Imbolc Walk: My Tragedy

The first edition of The Valleys Lead was published today. Independent journalism covering the south Wales valleys as the country prepares for what is likely to be the biggest Senedd election since 1999. Go and follow/subscribe for free!

Niall Ferguson, eh

Abolish the Home Office

...they told her no, didn't they

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

First episode is out this Thursday! I'm very excited and you should be too!

Herman Melville: In my book wrote about Moby Dick as a cautionary tale. William Topaz McGonagall: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45829/...

All 400 pages of Pageantry and Power for about £14! My Munday book is just over a tenner!

Two days left of the @manchesterup.bsky.social january sale! Buy 'Imperial Nostalgia', by me, for less than a tenner! Or some other books that are better than that one! Don't delay: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...

baby do u want to glue yrself inside my fleshy tabernacle

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.

Saw a lass this morning striding through the gale in hotpants and three-inch heels and a tiny little jacket, hair stacked up amazingly, tapping away with giant nails on her phone as if she were strolling the promenade at St Tropez. Meanwhile here's me at the same time. Greatest city on earth

Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.

this is still the best thing ever posted on twitter

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

every so often when I'm listening to some good music that I enjoy very much the line from Achewood, "Herb Alpert. Now THAT is pussy-shavin' music!", will come into my head unbidden and unforgivable. Anyway the Shelley/Orcutt/Miller record is great