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A big thank you to all the crime writers. Attached is a Crime Fiction Lover piece on my top five crime books of 2025. @trishasakhlecha.bsky.social @evesmithauthor.bsky.social @damedenisemina.bsky.social RWR McDonald @louisepennyauthor.bsky.social

Lot of people watching the Epstein files unfold and realising with utter horror that nothing is happening because most people simply DNGF about sexual violence until it happens to them. Don’t look away. Don’t stay quiet. Welcome to the revolution. We’ve got cookies.

Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3

✊🏽50 years since the Equal Pay Act 1970. These are working class women who had to fight decades for their due with hardly any support. Everyone told them to settle but they refused ✊🏽

Got these from Santa and it turns out the secret to all French cookery is more butter than you could fit in a man’s shoe

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Watched ‘The Mastermind’ last night. A haunting, quiet wonder

Flags can mean different things to different people. They are symbols. Not everyone knows this but not knowing this IN THE ARTS is bafflingly stupid.

Next year let’s make paying your fucking taxes a thing

I wouldn’t trust this man to make medical decisions about himself much less my family

May all your heels be cha cha

In a shocking twist, my hamfisted attempt at a coverup has only drawn attention to my crimes

Face-punching our way to a better world.

I could watch this all day

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

If I don’t live through to night in this hotel, ask these guys what happened

Getting lectured to about my health care by a bunch of guys that look like a leather belt that went through the wash

You should also read this if this era is triggering all kinds of feelings about your family that make you want to run away from your own skin.

50 Years since the Sex Discrimination Act and Glasgow City Council’s equal pay settlement is still reported almost entirely negatively. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

These fencing spikes echo vicious medieval lance blades

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Every time the robot hoover passes going about its business, getting shit done, you must salute or be jinxed for the whole day. I don’t make the rules

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

we’re all watching in real time what it actually profits a man to be a hate fuelled hag

I am Denise Mina and I endorse this message

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Totally hypnotised by my pretty new blackbird egg pot from Garnet Pots (Fireworks) in Dalhousie St.

Thanks to @wsj.com for naming The Diary of Lies as a mystery book of the year alongside such fine writers including @damedenisemina.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If you’re genuinely surprised at my far right pivot on Twitter maybe you should get off Twitter. No one’s on there anymore pal. Literally, no one not desperate.

And NYT! I may burst into flames! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...

The Good Liar is in Airmail’s top 10 mysteries! Feeling pretty smug rn airmail.news/books/2025/1...

Some good news!

Some of us have developed relationships with other human beings who can look us up and down and imply that we’re getting fat and will never get a husband if we keep giving it away for free. But thanks.

I was at school in south London at EXACTLY the same time as Farage. Antisemitic goading was not normal. Racist goading was not normal. You would have been regarded as a proper nasty weirdo for saying these things. Other kids would ask you what was wrong with you. You’d be shunned.

Congratulations to Denise Mina, whose novel was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best thrillers of 2025. Because it is.

Isolating the victim from their family and friends

Glasgow born Kalu just won the Turner

Tarantino is one of those arts guys you really hoped were interesting (David Lynch, David Byrne etc) but dismayingly, in the end, their ambitions were really just BMWB (Big Motor, Wee Blonde)

The popular Feast of the Immaculate Conception is the reason abortion was banned by the Catholic Church in 1836 1/5 www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-r...

I love the kind of unhinged that I saw a woman on TikTok do, some guy posted a hate comment on her video so she found out who he was and where he worked and drove 3 hours to his work and forced him to read an apology or she’d share the details of his grindr account with his wife.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

(peasant dying in a ditch during the Thirty Years' War) at least I didn't have to watch Wayne Gretzky and Shaquille O'Neal take the stage during the 2026 World Cup draw, live from the Kennedy Center in beautiful Washington, DC

But his glasses frames

Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”

Byron would’ve been on every social media and dating app, but William Blake would only have been on Bluesky