Anyway, here’s the book www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/book/fleet-a...

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Lesson learned: my writing brain cannot focus on two different projects at once. I’ve been pushing to get a short story done (for an anthology later this year). That has taken up ALL my writing run time for the last 6 weeks. Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖

This notion of 'politics as drama or entertainment', and then the chase for audience numbers, rather than 'how our society is structured' is where things went wrong at the BBC.

If you have any doubt that Farage is the British pro-consul for Trump’s Dark Empire, read this story about the rehabilitated Putin stooge Manafort

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

You cannot back Donald Trump and support Ukraine. Trump has helped Putin by starving Ukraine of air defense (which the Russians understand). Trump is helping Putin freeze Ukrainian cities, turn off Ukrainian lights and, ultimately, kill Ukrainians. And he has been doing this for almost one year.

Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism

A few pics from a New Year’s trip to IWM Duxford 😄 It’s fair to say things are being reorganised there at the moment. Here we have a Tornado, a Lysander, raspberry ripple Javelin, and the VC-10

If I wanted to permanently cripple NATO, divide the USA and help Russia and China, I could think of nothing better than the US using military force to seize Greenland.

This is not exercising freedom of speech. This is misogynistic intimidation.

The episode is now here! coldwarconversations.com/episode437/

Great chat with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his new book The #Revolutionists | The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s | It's Baillie Gifford Shortlisted! Episode coming soon. Buy the book & support @ColdWarPod here uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97818... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

Last few hours to grab Banshee for 99p on #Kindle! #KU

Well. 2025. Good to see you off with a pleasant afternoon walk through the chilly, sunny countryside. Happy New Year everyone! Crossing fingers that 2026 will be kind to us …

Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential. Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?

Feeling absurdly pleased at ordering a new (artificial) Christmas tree in the sales 🤣 You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take Yorkshire out of the girl …

Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️

Fancy a Christmas Kindle bargain that blends past and present and features the iconic Avro Vulcan? My Cold War novel Banshee is 99p (in ebook form) from now until New Year’s Eve! It’s still free on Kindle Unlimited amzn.to/41N1ELW #BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas - and that however the day comes, you get to spend some time with those you love, and I hope you get at least a bit of what you need and want 😊

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

I am in tears The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week Sick pay for everyone No more zero hours contracts No more trade union act 2016 years So much more Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do

⭐️ FESTIVE PLUG! ⭐️ If you want to order Banshee from me (via my bio), you have until Wednesday 17th December to get pre-Christmas delivery! Or order signed copies from Vulcan To The Sky & support the preservation of XH558 (their last postage dates apply): vulcantothesky.org/product/bans...

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Me: we need to sort out and get rid of things we don’t need or want. And not buy anything else unnecessary to clutter up the house. Also me: Aww! It’s a tiny Boeing 747! 😍 I NEED IT. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Still. *boop*

Congratulations, Sheelagh! I read and really enjoyed In Between Girl - definitely recommended 🙂

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes. Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”. Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

I wish I could remember which writer gave me this advice on Twitter - it must be well over a decade ago - when I was struggling to write a particular character. “Just talk to them”, she suggested. So I metaphorically took this character out for a coffee - just me and them, having a chat.

There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for. But it's our BBC - and it's important. Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.

Having one of those mornings when it feels like every writing idea I have is 💩, every scene I’ve written for Book 2 is 💩, and in fact Book 2 is going to be a massive steaming pile of 💩 … I suppose even a pile of crap is easier to edit than a blank page … #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

AI is essentially incompatible with net zero, in the short term. I know which I'd rather have www.newscientist.com/article/2503...

A post about remembrance, from my protagonist Flt Lt Alex Farnsworth. Lest we forget. www.lindsayrumbold.com/blog/remembrance

Today, we honour those who served and those who never came home. We will remember them.

🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them? A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Thank you to whoever flew the DH Chipmunk over the village war memorial today, as we gathered around it on Remembrance Sunday earlier. It was appreciated (not least by me).

I remember seeing it on the news (I was a schoolgirl at the time), and I remember feeling such a sense of hope (the innocence of youth!).

When your husband is a book ferret, and finds you complete sets of books he’s pretty sure you’ll find interesting … and he’s correct 😃 #BookSky

Who would have guessed

Having nailed down the plots for Book 2, my head is filled with ideas and I have that burning urge to sit and type for HOURS. So of course, Life has decided that I will absolutely not have more than 5 minutes to do so between now and probably next Tuesday 🙄