Good to know.

Oh hell yes, and it pays off so brilliantly in that finale that it doesn't make sense for it *not* to be supernatural, surely?

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

It’s very telling that these fucking guys think “the environment” means “the countryside (which is for Tories)” and not for example air quality in cities.

He's back is he?

Just remembering the bit at one event where I said something about a person who'd had a question brewing for twenty years about Green Wing and I chuckled a bit, but the room went very quiet and then it turned out they all thought I'd said a person had had a question about 'grooming'.

This interview with the podcast OMG Stories explains how I became a writer of espionage fiction better than I ever thought possible. In short, it all began with All The Presidents' Men. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZrG...

Got my copy sitting in my tbr pile, looking forward to it.

Now my book tour is done, it's time to eat something healthier than hotel cooked breakfasts and train sandwiches, he said, ordering a pizza.

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

Can't believe the Labour strategy of going door to door since the election, punching their voters in the face and yelling 'What are you going to do, vote for someone else?' didn't work out.

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Well hello

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Yet again Michael is posting this photo of women from North Shields, who were arrested at different times for petty crimes, and telling people on social media that they were the Forty Elephants. They are not 😂 Clue's on the boards - it says North Shields, because they were taken in North Shields.

I simply cannot process (a) how anyone thought a system like this was a good idea, and (b) how fortunate I was to get in before it started through pure accident of birth.

It's Book Quote Wednesday & the word is ADMIRE. In Cursed Under London, Fang has the sort of face that attracts many admirers. His friend Nell has a word with him about how he treats them - especially new admirer Lazare. #BookQW #BookSky buying links: farragobooks.com/book-series/...

Amazing things happen on #buyastrangerabook day. Look! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

It is and always was elite radicalisation - these awful people, egged on by their media friends, driving themselves and each other insane.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

"Morbius bore all the signs of Jared Leto" made me lol

Very exciting news from #rewilding Mapperton! Looks like there may be some unplanned iron age piglets on the way.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebvr...

Lovely event at Truro Waterstones last night with the excellent @emilybarr.bsky.social. Signed loads of hardbacks which is always good to see and good questions from crowd. Onwards to Cardiff and then I am DONE (one more event at Bath end of March, but that's not for ages).

If you are thinking 'well I'm not a Goth so this doesn't apply to me'... how about a writing workshop with romance writer par excellence KJ Charles? Or a talk on carnivorous plants? A tour of Dante's Inferno? A cooking class? We Goths welcome everyone!

If Bluesky didn’t have the juice would 72 hours, and two regrettable Roper pictures, after posting this we only be 3 sales off going Gold?

About to congratulate myself on the state of zen-like serenity in which I have spent the last few hours of travel on various trains and buses, then remembered the two quite strong travel sickness tablets I took first thing.

I am so proud of this big, weird book - if you have kids in your life (or just anyone who likes good comics) I would be super grateful if you preordered this. I just really want to make another one!

Spent quite a lot of today trying to work of the house's three smoke alarm/carbon monoxide detectors was making a quiet chirping sound every minute. Pressed 'test', changed all their batteries, only to finally remember there was an ancient one upstairs I'd completely forgotten about, now sorted.

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

Off again tomorrow for the last bit of the Pagans book tour - Canterbury on Monday, Truro on Tuesday then up to Cardiff Wednesday. It's been *lovely*.

Whilst Brown was having his character assassinated by Tony Blair’s closest aides, Mandelson was busy emailing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that he had ‘persuaded’ Brown to step down as leader of the Labour Party …here is some background www.theguardian.com/politics/win... …/3

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Well hellooooo Ballymena www.loveballymena.online/post/literar...

Mad that it’s one billionaire scumbag who’s behind these massive-scale evictions in London AND the mass closure of London pubs AND beloved institution the Prince Charles Cinema being in dire straits AND the high street being clogged with cruddy candy shops. A one-man enshittification engine.

I do like a bit of solarpunk; nice to see this amiable, gently positive branch of the SF tree starting to get a bit more attention.

Was feeling a bit left out I hadn't got an writer-aimed AI spam, then this morning I got an email from 'George RR Martin, a fellow author', giving me a little précis of Pagans with a promise to help me with marketing it. Obviously, if this was the real GRRM I'm going to feel bad I blocked him.

Maggie O'Farrell? NEVER HEARD OF HER (obviously I respect her so much)

This is a cracking read, really enjoyed it.

This is almost certainly going to get lost amid everything else happening at the moment. But it’s a big story.

“Instead of being drawn to cities, rural people were pushed into cities from their ancestral homes. And they did not go willingly.” Kate Brown explores the intersections of class and land use in 19th-century Britain.

apologies to everyone who thought they had a coolass name but

Coming hoooooome

Yesssss

Yeah, this made me shiver a bit when I read it.

'Hello I would like a howling wolf statue for my tiny front garden in Bury St Edmunds please, yes this is the most British thing ever.'

Hello Andy the archaeologist from Bury St Edmunds I signed a hardback for today. Currently he is mainly digging up Saxon graves, I think for work, but maybe just for a laugh.

It's an excellent piece. The answer to how the likes of Ridley thrive is very simple. He's an Eton educated Oxford graduate who is also a hereditary peer. He may be exceptionally stupid, but that is enough in this country to cover you in armour plating and propel you onwards in your career.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.