Tommy Robinson back in the day with my uncle Steve, who taught him to drive.

Breaking: Farage to announce that Fray Bentos causes Asperger's.

Where I get my ideas from (ie. washed up on an autumn equinox tide).

This excellent film / reissue project / happening is seeking funds. Definitely one for fans of Penda's Fen, Robin Redbreast, Red Shift etc.

JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is out in the wild. "Like Susan Sontag's diaries, but times dirtier and ten times angrier..." www.shortlist.com/health-and-f...

s i g n e d & d e d i c a t e d c o p i e s : bookcornerhalifax.com/product/pre-... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Covid-addled, fortified with pierogi and Fervex, I have just finished this extraordinarily moving book by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social.

Your Da paints roundabouts. Your Ma shouts at hotels. Death to fascism. A hex on your houses. The spell has been cast. October 23rd 2025.

Good news: I am not launching my own podcast.

One of the best people I know. www.nme.com/features/mus... @dominorecordco.bsky.social

My mantra.

If, like me, your mental keel is feeling a little unstable I highly recommend listening to Michael Palin's diaries. They're up on Spotify.

I met Adam Buxton recently and am still cringing at the crack I made concerning 'the short, hairy men club'.

CUDDY is out now in Spanish. www.pieldezapa.com/catalogo/388...

The subject of my forthcoming novel. A right piece of work. It also features The Stooges, Leni Riefenstahl, Werner Herzog , Baader-Meinhof, David Lean, The Beatles, Jesus Christ and, to a much lesser extent, me. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...

I would be perfectly happy with the internet being switched off for twelve months.

3 books are now being dispatched... Big thanks to Simon @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for this excellent initiative.

To show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community I'd like to buy 3 people a book from this year's Polari Prize original longlisting, as below. A gift from me to thee. See below.

Imagine if they taught British colonialism in schools.

On average I currently see 3-legged dogs 4-6 times per week. Where all the extra legs going?

Swipe right to make England great again.

Published in 6 weeks via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Signed hardbacks available to pre-order now from all indie bookshops: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jesu...

"A tour de force, a brilliant rendering of the intensity, near-insanity and creative obsession of an evident genius and equally evident bastard." The first review is in. JESUS CHRIST KINSKI publishes late October 2025 on @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog/jesus-c...

Featuring a piece I wrote about the late Klaus Kinski.

"A tour de force, a brilliant rendering of the intensity, near-insanity and creative obsession of an evident genius and equally evident bastard." The first review is in. JESUS CHRIST KINSKI publishes late October 2025 on @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog/jesus-c...

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Imagine watching This Is England (2006) and thinking Combo is the hero.

It’s a privilege to be noticed by reviewers, as Books pages shrink. It’s an actual joy to be critiqued so closely by a reviewer who places me and you (the reader) in a threesome with The Two Roberts, my two central characters. 🍾 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I loved Brideshead Revisited, but this is the second Waugh novel I've had to ditch because of N-words being dropped all over the place. Yes, different times, consciously awful characters etc, but it just becomes too difficult to swallow given the state of 2025.

Myers provides a voyeuristic window into the mind of a megalomaniac (among many other things) on a night his artifices crumble. It's a rollicking and compelling piece cleverly counterbalanced with @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social’ own creative meta narrative. And it's a ripper of a read.

The people of quaint Northumbrian fishing village Amble must really hate kippers as there sure as shit won't be anyone seeking asylum there. Boneheads.

This Martin Parr documentary, made 26 years ago and repeated on BBC4 last night, has a striking resonance now in the light of Brexit and England’s current outbreak of flags.

A solitary off-white England flag dangles limpidly from a concrete overpass, as vital as a dead jellyfish or a lost sock. A passing fox pauses, pisses, moves on. And the isolated island drifts further into deep black waters, it's warring tribes drunk on false history.

Just remembered I once took my parents, retired teachers, for a night out in Camden with The Wildhearts.

I came across this user comment while looking for some Nick Drake demos on YouTube just now. Have a read - it's rather magical. Original link: youtube.com/watch?v=fBdb...

The fierce new paperback cover of Base Notes has just landed courtesy of @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social -- and is now available to preorder at your local independent bookshop. If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate… store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...

I've written a piece about how we square the talent of Klaus Kinski with his deplorable personality, for the new issue of Sight & Sound (@sightsoundmag.bsky.social) I love this magazine. A dream fulfilled. You also get to read Max Porter on Cillian Murphy. www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...

Much fun at the launch of this absolute beauty by @elizabethalker.bsky.social. Buy it - she has put her heart and soul into it. @faberbooks.bsky.social

People who hold clip-on mics: what are you afraid of?

"Maira, 34, is deeply suspicious of men who read in public..." Maybe if you only hang around in hip Hackney cafes, Maira. How do you think people get degrees? I'm sick of these reductive articles. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/p...

Inspiring stuff from a true Durham hero. (And perhaps the only time I will use the word relatable.)

We’ve #SIGNED copies of Adelle Stripe’s @adellestripe.bsky.social new memoir Base Notes, plus signed copies of her other books. Each copy of Base Notes is stamped & sprayed with the perfume Adelle created herself 🌸 A life told in scents, memory by memory www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/search?q=Ade...

I just put myself into a reservoir. No flag shaggers in sight. A blessed relief.

I used to play ice hockey. It's mad. The only sport where you can stop mid-game and have a fight with an opponent. Here's a piece I wrote about it back in 2018: www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

Whenever I despair at the creeping rise of fascism I like to read Barney Farmer's (@barneyfarmer.bsky.social) 'Male Online' strip in Viz. It's important to laugh at these whoppers.

The feelbad hit of the autumn is coming. JESUS CHRIST KINSKI. October 23rd 2025. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Have just finished a proof of Benjamin Myers’ excellent Jesus Christ Kinski and would like to commend it for its adept portrayal of the relationship between writing and biscuits.

How dare men read books and love their mothers. Strong Andrew Tate energy to this article. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...