"...evokes memories of discovery and awakening which sit in the reader's mind. Like the time in which it is set, the story is by turn chaotic and violent, claustrophobic and secretive." www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

Post war western Europe is simply the best society that this species has ever managed to create. Never forget it. Defend it for all we're worth.

If I was President of the United States, the last thing I’d do is start questioning territorial claims based on ‘people arriving in boats hundreds of years ago’.

Like a pro, i've taken the cheese out of the fridge, so it'll be nearer room temperature at lunch time. More cheese updates later, but in the meantime, let's start #buyastrangerabook day!

Over Xmas, I finally got around to reading The War of the Worlds. One of those books you 'know' (the films, the concept albums...) but one that is just so much richer in its original text. The setting is familiar, parochial even, the language very much of its time, but the vision is immense... 1/2

"A riveting political thriller... I loved the intrigue and machinations in smoke filled rooms, fuelled by acrid coffee. But it’s also timeless and humane in the way it tracks how idealism collides with politics." The Whirligig is out now. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

"A riveting political thriller... I loved the intrigue and machinations in smoke filled rooms, fuelled by acrid coffee. But it’s also timeless and humane in the way it tracks how idealism collides with politics." The Whirligig is out now. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

The sun goes down on 2025 over Ponta Delgada. It's not raining, which is nice. #saomiguel #azores

Thought from the North Atlantic, after a week in the Azores: the far right candidate in next year's Portugese presidential election has posters everywhere (some comically defaced) and it's clear that today's Nazis are absurdly well-funded, the world over.

Christmas swim in (the margins of the) north Atlantic...

Happy Christmas from an island in the North Atlantic where they knit their Christmas trees.

This chart is astonishing and yet so unsurprising. I always ask friends and family caught up in this delirium 'what has changed?' and the answer isn't this.

Nigel Farage on GB News the other day said: “We have a Mayor of London who is happy to celebrate every other religious festival around the world, but just not Christmas.” One of his more brazen lies. What would he have made of Sadiq's 2025 Christmas Carol Service? www.onlondon.co.uk/sadiq-khans-...

Had a lovely time at last night's launch of my new novel, The Whirligig. Delighted that old friend @labourpaul.bsky.social showed up. (In case it needs saying, the book makes an ideal Xmas gift - www.waterstones.com/book/the-whi...)

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

Once more for the haters...

Good piece on Oswald Farage and other Rusamerican quislings poisoning our democracies in hope of becoming 🇷🇺🇺🇸 proxy rulers 👇 "They have become Europeans who embrace Europe’s enemies; phoney patriots who love MAGA America and respect Putin’s Russia more than they love or respect their neighbours."

Memory-holing is not new, exhibit 3271. Of course, tech makes it (much) easier these days to stand up the lie, but we've always been bad at knowing things.

Because frightened politicians and a compromised media dare not say that crime is falling, Nigel Farage and his demagogic allies are getting away with the most extraordinary lies

The Whirligig is a gripping story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Sounds like an ideal Christmas present! Available from www.waterstones.com/book/the-whi... and other booksellers!

The Whirligig is a gripping story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Sounds like an ideal Christmas present! Available from www.waterstones.com/book/the-whi... and other booksellers!

The more I think about it, the more bizarre I find the accusation that the Chancellor deliberately exaggerated the dire state of the finances in order to justify tax rises. The extent to which there is 'exaggeration' means more for fiscal headroom, which is what everyone wanted her to pursue 1/

I used to really like #wato but I've just sat through 45 minutes and heard no news whatsoever, and in fact nothing I would describe as comment or analysis. Utterly vacuous.

"sharp and assured, balancing suspense with thoughtful character work" The Whirligig is story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Available now - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

“Harvey weaves a magnetic tale of human hope and betrayal with depth and insight. A triumph.” The first reviews are in for The Whirligig and you can read some of them here - www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... A story loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell.

“Harvey weaves a magnetic tale of human hope and betrayal with depth and insight. A triumph.” The first reviews are in for The Whirligig and you can read some of them here - www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... A story loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Not my most popular view to suggest that our politics and economics are in effect stuck, and have been since 2008, but if there were easy answers they might have been found by now. Including your pet theories...

The budget will cost my necessarily frugal household money we could well use, but I won't be complaining, because I'm not 12, I can grasp that a functioning country needs paying for, and I can understand the difference between something that isn't fair and something I simply don't like.

Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*

"sharp and assured, balancing suspense with thoughtful character work" The Whirligig is a story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Available now - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

"sharp and assured, balancing suspense with thoughtful character work" The Whirligig is story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Available now - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919175008

He's very good, that Adrian Harvey.

A gripping story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. "The mood is unmistakably tense —smoke-hazed rooms, uneasy political currents, and a constant sense that something is shifting just out of sight."

Happy Publication Day to me! “Harvey weaves a magnetic tale of human hope and betrayal with depth and insight. A triumph.” A gripping story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. Available now from wherever you buy your books.

A gripping story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell. "The mood is unmistakably tense —smoke-hazed rooms, uneasy political currents, and a constant sense that something is shifting just out of sight."

My novel, The Whirligig, is out on Thursday (the 50th anniversary of Franco's death). In part, it explores what happens when 'good' people turn against vulnerable minorities for votes. Feels kind of relevant...

Can't wait until 20 November? The Whirligig is available to pre-order in the UK at Waterstones - www.waterstones.com/book/the-whi...

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

My new novel is published on 20 November, the fiftieth anniversary of Franco's death. Unintentional, but somehow fitting... A story of politics and power, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the good intentions that pave the road to hell.

2016 really was an act of unprecedented national self-harm, wasn't it?

So the BBC is biased against Donald Trump? Ok? Fine? It’s also biased against Vladimir Putin or Erdogan or Orban or or or, your point being?

Really pleased with this new weekly column. We don’t pull our punches at LabourList when we think Labour get thinks wrong. We shouldn’t hold back about what they get right too.

It's a grey day in London, but not as grey as the Skeiðarárjökull...

This chart (in a fascinating thread comparing coverage of a mass stabbing 30 years ago) should be seen by a lot more people.

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

What happens to the true-believer when politics becomes detached from the truth? My timely new novel is out on 20 November.

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Get your #Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

A slightly creepy short story for Halloween adrian-harvey.uk#/fiction/sho... #amwriting