Just nice to see an American progressive leader who is unafraid and victorious. Really no more to it than that. What a beautiful fucking sight.

I'm the guest of Sparkle Abbey at the Stiletto Gang blog today, talking about making babies . . . but not like that. @severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social #NewBook #NewMystery #CrimeFiction www.thestilettogang.com/2025/11/06/g...

First stop on the SCOT'S EGGS blog post today: Proust's questionnaire (not all of it). @severnhouse.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social www.missdemeanors.com/proust-quest...

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-w... | @sincworldwide.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @sistersincrimela.bsky.social

#ICYMI w Poppy Gee @gvaljan.bsky.social @catrionamcp.bsky.social @ericbeetner.bsky.social @navah74.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com | @sincworldwide.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @crimewoc.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/10/five... | @ellygriffiths.bsky.social @lauralippman.bsky.social @avidreaderdavis.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @johncopenhaver.bsky.social @salemwest.bsky.social @severnhouse.bsky.social

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I'm on Channel 4 News' podcast talking about Mandelson, Epstein, and what a grievous avoidable error this entire scandal has been www.channel4.com/news/mandels...

Conor Gearty was always a pleasure to commission. He wrote this in 2019: 'the hatred that Brexit has unleashed, not to mention the deadbeat, failed politicians to whom it has given renewed energy, moths released from what had been a deserved political oblivion.' eprints.lse.ac.uk/105857/1/Gea...

Faith in humanity taken a bit of a beating? I prescribe @louberney.bsky.social's DARK RIDE, three times a day with food. #FridayReads. (My agent was on the judging panel for the Steel Dagger and sent the winner to me - thank you, @literarylisa.bsky.social!

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-c... | Terri Bischoff @literarylisa.bsky.social #writerslife @sincworldwide.bsky.social

Opinion | Do we believe that Mandelson “acted with integrity” when he wrote “yum yum” on that card? No one could say it with a straight face. It was a travesty that Mandelson became US ambassador 🖋# @iandunt.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/4bDjC0A

It was silly. It was addictive. What will happen to it in an age of unlimited digital content? New More Jam Tomorrow: kids’ TV morejamtomorrow.com/episode/kids...

Coming soon – Zoë Apostolides is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live on September 6th.

For all you flying the flag - a word of caution! open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

Congratulations @lisahallauthor.bsky.social 🥳👏 Audio Rights to Books 1-4 in her glamorous, time-slip #murder #mystery series set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, have been sold to #Bolinda🎉🔊 Book 2 was also the 2025 winner of @thecwa.bsky.social Whodunnit Dagger!

Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

Reading a book of Labour history which was evidently written just before the 2015 election. This is a rather haunting sentence to end on.

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social > 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/08/here... | @bloodyscotland.bsky.social #Bouchercon @literarylisa.bsky.social @desertsleuths.bsky.social #WriteNow2025 @capitolcrimes.bsky.social

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... | @sincnational.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @sistersincrimela.bsky.social #shoutout @jspencerfleming.bsky.social @janeygodley.bsky.social Terri Bischoff #titles

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-... | @sincnational.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social @realcharlaine.bsky.social @damedenisemina.bsky.social @valmcdermid.bsky.social @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social

#Thursday w @catrionamcp.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/07/celt... | @sistersincrimela.bsky.social @literarylisa.bsky.social @hodderbooks.bsky.social @nationalhealthservice.uk #Edinburgh @sincnational.bsky.social

Really enjoyed doing this

Should have written that dress into your contract, Amanda!

The Homecoming is now in stock! A dark, feminist gothic tale with added eels... It's a slow burn claustrophobic ghost story and mystery, atmospheric and unsettling. It's also Zoë Apostolides' debut, so I'm excited to see what she does next! #NewBooks #Horrorsky 💙📚🪐

Happy publication day to our author Zoë Apostolides 🎉 Her debut novel THE HOMECOMING is a quietly disturbing part mystery, part ghost story, about isolation, memory, spirits and secrets, intergenerational friendship and motherhood. Published by @saltpublishing.com

Happy publication day to our author Zoë Apostolides 🎉 Her debut novel THE HOMECOMING is a quietly disturbing part mystery, part ghost story, about isolation, memory, spirits and secrets, intergenerational friendship and motherhood. Published by @saltpublishing.com

What a night! Huge congratulations to our author @lisahallauthor.bsky.social for winning the CWA Whodunnit Dagger for her glamorous and evocative timeslip mystery 'The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl' published by Hera Books. Proud is an understatement. Cheers! 🥂

What a night! Huge congratulations to our author @lisahallauthor.bsky.social for winning the CWA Whodunnit Dagger for her glamorous and evocative timeslip mystery 'The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl' published by Hera Books. Proud is an understatement. Cheers! 🥂

How can any news organisation mislead their readers to this extent just to make clickbait? It means grandparents with full time custody of children but it makes it sound like grandparents helping out. And £79 a week is so much money, they will create and then destroy real hope - just for clicks.

🚨NEW🚨 Right wingers are more frequently using rhetoric that sounds a bit like Enoch Powell. What's going on? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discuss. Plus @jbambridge.bsky.social talks us through what Labour is doing on AI ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

EXCITING NEWS 🚨 Our submissions are now OPEN. We are interested in well-written commercial fiction with a strong hook and non-fiction with stand-out subject matter by experts in their field. We welcome voices that are not heard often enough. 🔗 Find out more and submit: www.cmm.agency/submissions

After Kemi Badenoch mocks Keir Starmer for skipping PMQs in order to attend the G7 and NATO summits, Conservative MP Mark Pritchard condemns her "partisan" jibes, adding that "I may get the whip withdrawn for saying that, but so be it. There are some things that go beyond party politics."

Hmm, I don't know if this is as helpful as you think it is, Bill?

Farage's 'Britannia card': probably the most blatantly populist wheeze this century, and one of the stupidest.

Trump rarely swears, quick plug of an oldie about why people do love swearing though open.spotify.com/episode/6jS2...

Cannot oversell how good @jacobjarvis.bsky.social’s interview with @hartmannreport.com is for this week’s American Friction. Listen free wherever you get your pods, and join our community on Patreon for extra perks and merch. open.spotify.com/episode/0Ph5...

The teachers made a sweet video, though.

If you listened to the Trident ep of More Jam Tomorrow, you’ll know about the nuclear tests Britain carried out in Australia. Andy Burnham’s campaigning for the MoD to properly investigate the servicemen’s medical records. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More Jam Tomorrow ep 5 is out! I talk to UCL prof @tobyseddon.bsky.social and former stoner @iandunt.bsky.social about how it got to Britain, why it’s banned and whether it should be legalised. Also feat @seththevoz.bsky.social as a very worried Jim Callaghan. morejamtomorrow.com/episode/cann...

It's not just a Trump problem. Half the US electorate is out of the democracy game. That's not a short-term, lets-just-survive-this-madman issue. It's a long-term problem. We're hitching ourselves to a burning fucking wagon loaded with TNT.

Reputable researcher, statistician and author of “Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and The Rest of Us Get Misled By Numbers” cannot replicate Goodwin’s methods or findings.

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