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

“a new model of public engagement is emerging that builds on the experience of design review to put the views of local people into the mix” Community engagement provides a more holistic approach to housing development, argues @ade-harvey.bsky.social fabians.org.uk/building-com...

“Harvey weaves a magnetic tale of human hope and betrayal with depth and insight. A triumph.” The Whirligig is published on 20 November but is available for pre-order at Waterstones (UK) www.waterstones.com/book/the-whi... and Barnes and Noble (US) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-whirli...

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A dark little short story for the dark months... Two: adrian-harvey.uk#/fiction/sho...

The curds are in the mould for this autumn's make. In a couple of months - just in time for Xmas! - they'll look something like the cheese on the right - the last of summer's make. Mmmm.

A dark little short story for the dark months... Two: adrian-harvey.uk#/fiction/sho...

“Harvey’s beautiful prose explores the personal side of professional politics and the flawed people who pursue it.” - Emma Burnell, political journalist and playwright

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

Advance copies of The Whirligig have arrived - always exciting to the meet your books in the flesh for the first time... The Whirligig is out on 20th November, but should be available for pre-order soon.

Founded in 2003, run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe, and rooted in a series of events at The Horse Hospital, @strangeattractor.bsky.social celebrates unpopular culture via neglected and esoteric cultural, historical and anthropological themes. New titles launch at #smallpublishersfair25

Up on the acropolis at Monemvasia.

From Monemvasia in the Peloponese, where the sea is inviting even in October.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

I’m very excited to reveal the cover of my new novel! 'The Whirligig' is out in November 2025. “Harvey weaves a magnetic tale of human hope and betrayal with depth and insight. A triumph.” - James Silvester, author of 'Escape to Perdition'

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A good day to join the Fabians… fabians.org.uk/membership/j...

Proofs for for the new book have arrived, so here's a bit of love for my second novel, The Cursing Stone. From the Small Isles to the big city, a coming of age story - and something of a love letter to London. www.amazon.co.uk/Cursing-Ston...

To remind myself of good things, here's some cheese I made in July, finally opened. Punchy, crumbly and very satisfying. #cheese

Film4 has just described The Killing Fields as a docudrama, and I'm dying a little bit inside.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

On the same day in the Telegraph:

net immigration fell by more than half last year and the politics has gone in the complete opposite direction. It's not really about the numbers

Ten years ago... back when I was fresh and talented.

This summer, I went walking in Iceland again, this time over a glacier, as well as some mountains. I wrote about it here: pointtopointnavigation.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/n... #iceland #walking

If we want to build the houses we need, we need to make places where people want to live. Constructive community engagement will be cirtical to that. humanise.org/opinions/com...

I'm on my way back from hiking in southern Iceland. Day three was across a glacier (Skeiðarárjökullinn for those interested). This is not a black and white photo.

I'm off to Iceland for a bit of walking. I hope the weather is a little kinder than last year...

It's no use denying that part of the reason I'm on Bluesky is to publicise myself as a writer. I don't really know how to do it, but I'm guessing the best thing is to let people know what my books are like & how to get them; give an idea of my style and viewpoint; & warn them that I look like this:

My husband is a freelance writer and thanks to AI his takings are half what they were last year. AI doesn’t have to worry about paying the bills or keeping a roof over its head. If you need a talented writer please get in touch with Matt www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Us Gen Xers have finally found our political and cultural purpose. We can actually remember the 1970s/80s. And we're going to remind the "Broken Britain" morons of the reality. And we are also going to get them to own the unnecessary harm they have done/will do.

Ventured into the crime-ridden hell hole today. And, well, it was just lovely.

Phew. I think my trade is safe for a little while yet...

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

I'm getting my next book ready for release in the autumn, so thought I'd give my previous novels a bit of love. My first (a love story, with an elephant) is available here - www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Someon... #amwriting #amediting

Someone asked me to take this out from behind the pay wall and I - unlike the British housing market - am nothing if not accommodating. So: no, empty homes won't solve the housing crisis

Only just stumbled onto The Burning Hell, but their new record is marvellous. Any band that writes a song called Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board is worth a listen...

This XKCD applies to 95% of this site’s political discourse

Wales is nice, part 351

Genuinely surprised the numbers were that low

The UK is not "sitting on a tinderbox". Some far right thugs are threatening violence and unfortunately some are gullible and go along with it. Right wing politicians and media stoke it up and I'm afraid some elsewhere on the political spectrum sleep walk into lending it all credence. Wake up.

None of Britain, or England, or even London *belong to me*. I *belong to them*. And that's important because the responsibility I have to all of those is not that of landlord seeking to extract what is mine, but that of participant where my own actions reflect and are reflected back in our condition

I've been visiting my mum. I was all going OK, until the conversation took a turn that led to her calling me 'a do-gooder who's ruining the country' and I now want to delete her Facebook account. Once I stop laughing.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...