🙏🏼Help required🙏🏼 Is there anyone out there who has access to the 17-page diversity training document was offered to staff at the Lancashire NHS trust?? GBNews and Telegraph have it but I can’t find it to debunk their BS headlines!

Mandelson and best friend meet the press. (Photo credit: me.)

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Please lend Martin your eyes and ears next week…

Martin's book is absolutely splendid, please join us in Nottingham on May 12.

🚨GB News Scandal: Read our dossier of their flagrant Ofcom breaches ⬇️

Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

As Faith No More once sang, it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. Bravo to @jamesrball.com and my other colleagues on the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social team who lent their shoulder to this crucial piece of work.

“A shitty new life awaits you in the Offworld Colonies…” I talk to the #Muskism guys about how this fascist pipsqueak is shaping the world in ways that will be very hard to undo. ⚠️ Content Advisory: Features me raging at how Musk misunderstands every work of science fiction he ever encounters.

The Best International Film category at this year’s Academy Awards is outrageously stacked. But I hope it goes to The Secret Agent. An incredible picture.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...

In a WWII-set plot, the brittle bonhomie of Tim Roth’s homegrown fascist seems all too familiar ✏️ Ian Winwood

Mother and child reunion in East London. Leyton Orient 1, Barnsley 3.

Goodbye to the Camden Odeon, my local pictures for almost 20 years. With thanks for movies both good and bad, and all points in-between. A sad day.

As the death toll in Iran reaches unimaginable proportions it's important that the anti-imperialist hard left not be allowed to hijack protests. We speak to Iranian artists and musicians about their experiences thanks to the dictatorship. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine hung up on me during this interview. Given that he once threatened to snap my colleague Ian Winwood's neck, I probably got away lightly. Fascinating character, nonetheless. I genuinely enjoyed talking to him. www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...

Thanks to the London Archives for having me along to do a talk about sexuality in the Capital last night. If anyone is looking for an in-depth presentation on the Second World War as a sexual revolution, with a London or more general focus, hit me up!

Upcoming book tour, where I'll be talking about the book (obvs.), the decision to step away, for this one at least, from my established genre of historical crime fiction, and why I'm publishing it under my own name - Shona - rather than 'S.G.' Amongst other things ...

A week to go until my talk on sex in the blackout and LGBT+ lives in London during the Second World War, come!

Thank you Oliver!

Raffle prizes at Limbonauts charity concert at the Water Rats, London on Thursday (Jan 15). Special edition sets of Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen & red vinyl U2. Raffle tix just £2 each at the show, raising money for Rozdil orphanage in Ukraine. Come on down. limbonauts-live-london.eventbrite.com

I'm really looking forward to talking about my new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, in Linlithgow, afternoon Wed 4th March. The book is actually being published under my own name, Shona. It's not a thriller maybe more of a social drama (is that a thing?)I mean, I'm not saying nobody dies ... .

Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the night is one new patron. Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Hey, so, I've been fired. Now that I'm unemployed like the other half of Bluesky, if anyone knows of work for a writer, reporter, or nonprofit grants manager, I'd be much obliged. You all know where to find me.

booksandwritersnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2026/01/belf... Big thanks to Jonathan Traynor (author of Chords of Chaos and Race the Undead) for this profile of my upcoming book, Soviet Hotel Dressing Gown. #booksky #indieauthors #irishnovels #belfast

My author's copies of my new book, 'The Return of Russia' have arrived. The book will be published in the UK and US on January 27 by @yalebooks.bsky.social. I have events planned in London and other parts of the UK in Feb and March. Details to follow #Russia #history #Putin

A lot of writers have busted their butts all year to publish great fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalism. Consider sharing their work today. Consider what you send people's attention to.

As some of you will know, I've been working on book about punk - part teenage diary, part serious reflections on the times, from the NF to Peter Sutcliffe. Here's a podcast interview about it, which you may like to listen to / like / share / whatever... CC x open.spotify.com/episode/3LpY...

Was very lucky to be asked by Netflix to host a screening of Laura Poitras’s documentary Cover Up about the storied US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. We had editors, reporters, lawyers, some old lags (hi) some next gen. Film is on Netflix on 26th. It’s unflinching and inspiring. Recommend.

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

Well this is a lovely surprise from @memorialdevice.bsky.social

With great thanks to @kahnjohnson.bsky.social for the very lovely words, and for being my first endorser on the (much nicer than “Twitter”) @bsky.app

Happy Halloween. Or as it’s known here in Camden, Friday.

Lots of animals love pumpkin! If you have a farm sanctuary nearby they may want your leftover Halloween pumpkins if they are fresh, clean, and unpainted. Contact them to find out!

Come and join the resistance…

Brilliant piece by the brilliant @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

This is very good indeed, I think…

this must be the worst october experienced sales wise the guy from the noodle store also says he is having a bad time of it 'because people have no money' the uk is in a bit of a slump i wonder how many local stores will survive we've lost two coffee shops along the street and a skateboard shop

If you can tear down the East Wing of the White House…you can tear down anything you fancy. He’s just getting started. More at 5.50 tomorrow in my “American Week” on @lbc.co.uk

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

I heard James talking to @mrjamesob.bsky.social earlier & on the back of that, I’ve decided to subscribe to @thenewworldmag.bsky.social They’re doing 10 weeks for £10! A bargain for such brilliant journalism. Sign up if you can 👏

Hemingway sucks

Matt is a properly funny writer. Let's get him some gigs

This is an exceptionally perceptive and knowledgeable piece about an exceptional writer, courtesy of @augstone.bsky.social and @thequietus.com