A strong whiff of "don't you know who I am" here. And, do tell, who broke it? Your former husband and his mates?

This is superb to the point of essential. Philippe Sands was a key source for our episodes on genocide and Klein conducts an excellent interview podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Really good deep reporting by @noahshachtman.bsky.social (plus some jaw-dropping anecdotes) in this story about the growing internal crisis at the ADL nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote about antidepressant withdrawal and why the general advice about coming off ssris is so unhelpful for a lot of people www.thetimes.com/article/1ba8...

Read this today www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The final CrimeFest Awards shortlist has been revealed, and features authors including @bellamackie.bsky.social, @lyndalaplante.bsky.social and DG Coutinho ( @dgcwords.bsky.social ), among others 👇 #BookSky

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low-tax jurisdictions including Monaco, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, taking advantage of Britain’s loose funding rules to bolster its coffers. www.ft.com/content/b133...

My latest book - WHAT A WAY TO GO - is out in paperback on Thursday. To mark it, I’m doing an event with my husband in London. Get tickets here (if you like) www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Let me get this straight: Fringe extremist infiltrates a major political party, rises to the rank of Vice President, throws around diplomatic weight to force a meeting with the Pope, and then MURDERS said Pope? Folks. This is a Dan Brown novel.

Hugely keen on this Jesus guy

Next time someone asks me this ridiculous question I’m just gonna send them this link 🙃

'No-one is talking about young men' increasingly occupies the same space as 'we need an honest conversation about immigration'. We never shut up about young men. It's one of the only things we ever talk about, although admittedly only ever to say 'we need to be more reactionary'.

I wrote a very personal piece about why I’m not having children open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...

We are very excited about this event with bestselling author Bella Mackie in conversation with Radio 1 breakfast show host Greg James. 🎫 Tickets are selling fast so grab yours now! @bellamackie.bsky.social @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

All social media platforms are absolutely mental for the brain. Just five seconds of scrolling here gave me “the earth’s core is changing,” a recipe for rhubarb crumble by Nigella, then a post about an imminent bird flu pandemic before finally a photo of a dog in a hat.

[eloquently] The President should be a totally different guy than he has been for his entire life.

I wrote about harbouring delusions I could be amazing at things I’ve never even done and some of the comments made me howl. open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...

Freddie’s flowers touts stand outside branches of Gails with bouquets in the basket of an old timey bike as if in an advertorial directed by Richard Curtis.

January Read #1 I love @bellamackie.bsky.social and this compliments HTKYF perfectly. She provides a hilarious perspective on the ridiculous lives of the super rich! There's nothing better than a book that makes you grateful your not rich. Can't wait for her next one! #booksky

Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69052/...

including replies, Musk has posted more than 1180 times in seven days www.ft.com/content/8e91...

Wrote about perfect Christmas reading for the guardian here - www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

NEW: Reform treasurer Nick Candy tells the FT other billionaires are waiting to join Elon Musk in backing the party to disrupt UK politics on.ft.com/3ZPiKq3

We need to start recognising online radicalisation as a mental illness.

There are gift guides everywhere so I wrote my own. It’s present ideas for people you hate (feat a dead horse dressed up as a unicorn). bellamackie.substack.com/p/a-horrible...

i hadn't noticed how bad it's gotten on X, but there's been a few days this week where my tiktok feed has been full of ed vids, like one after the other seemingly out of nowhere!!!! (maybe coming from cooking/beauty vids i engaged with? idk!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

From now until the end of the year, I’m going to share books I’ve loved in 2024. Next up is What a Way to Go by @bellamackie.bsky.social

Quite weird if you were one of the authors to find out the ceo shooter had reviewed you on goodreads.

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Duolingo became unusable for me last year after they tried to make every level into a game for five year olds, Babbel’s interface was baffling. Are there any language apps you recommend?

Prospect’s annual Top Thinkers shortlist has arrived! Chosen thinkers include @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and many more. Vote for your favourite—and tell us who should have been on the list but isn’t. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...

I got so angry when Nigel Farage suggested parliament debate abortion limits that I wrote about my own experience with abortion. A “suggestion” from Farage won’t be the only attack on abortion rights we see…https://bellamackie.substack.com/p/ghouls-incels-and-misogynists to

"If the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil [Gaiman] that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know." Powerful, moving interview with Tori Amos by Kira Cochrane in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...

Truly there is nothing more shameless than the Uber adverts running on allll podcasts atm which boast about how proud they are to offer their workers rights (they were court ordered to, appealed and lost).

You can do Farnborough to London in 40 minutes for £20 on the train. Yet it's the most popular route for private jet travel in the UK. Let's not pretend this is normal www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

God they're such boring fucking stereotypes. Killing helpless animals for fun and shitting on women and LGBT people and then instantly getting offended when anyone even slightly disagrees with that garbage

The best sub Reddit is AccidentalRenaissance, hands down

Thrilled that The Times has picked my latest book as one of their books of the year!

You used to call me on my self-own

I stumbled upon Donald Trump’s guardian Q&A from 2007. His answers are both deeply boring and very revealing. www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...

I have a theory (that I just made up). Much like hem lines are supposedly influenced by the economy, the bleaker things are, the earlier people buy Christmas trees. I’ve seen so many in people’s windows in the past week, and it’s not even December.

The end of bingo in Camden. The builders let me have a look and I felt very sad for the older people who socialised here.

It’s like a bad dream you can’t wait to wake up from.

Earlier I watched Buy now: the shopping conspiracy and now The Day After Tomorrow is on and I feel like one shouldn’t watch both of those things in a 24 hour period.

Big day for Captain Tom’s family watchers. The grift that keeps on giving.

Don’t get me wrong I’m enjoying bluesky , but for sheer level of banter threads remains unmatched