Danny Thompson R.I.P. 1939-2025

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

NAP COMIX! #321 Having a normal one over here. If you've been enjoying these silly comics *pretty please* consider signing up for the NAP COMIX Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/flimsykitten/nap-comix It's free to sign up with no obligation. :) Thank you! xxx

This is amazing.

The Seventh Doctor being iconic

BREAKING: ABC has announced it is pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air “indefinitely” to censor the host after comments he made Monday night about the "MAGA gang" doing everything to claim Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was "anything other than one of them." Here is the clip:

“HALLOA! Below there!" Join award winning writer @gralefrit.bsky.social and myself here at 10 tonight for a tweetalong of The Signalman, on BBC FOUR. All welcome to share thoughts, memories, insight or questions. Just use the hashtag #signalman

Delightful to see Tommy Ten Names' Stone Island Guild sweep through BFI Southbank today. I'm sure this was integral to having a dump.

The far right has been legitimised by Labour, Conservatives and Reform and all those journalists and channels that have either failed to hold them to account or actively supported them - meanwhile, international law has been eviscerated - the weak, the cowardly and the greedy have succeeded

Well that was intense. (Seeing the Harold Pinter #AssociatedRediffusion dramas at the #bfiSouthbank last night and witnessing the devastation left in the wake of the far right thugs passing through Waterloo on Saturday night).

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Very moving (and funny) tribute to the great Bill Dare at the BBC Radio Theatre today. If you ever laughed at Dead Ringers or Spitting Image, that's probably thanks to Bill.

The Barbican Centre has never to my knowledge hosted a screening of Penda's Fen, but that changes today. It's sold out, I'm happy to say, but I expect there will be a small number of tix at the box office if you want to queue early. And do say hello! (Find me in the Two Brewers after, probably.)

Just listened to this lovely interview. Thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly John's thoughts on Hammer's modern Draculas. What a loss. @househammerpod.bsky.social @cevni.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Woke this morning to learn of Chris Bidmead’s passing. The man responsible for my break into TV, and my unwitting entry into a global family in which I’ve remained to this day. For both of which, I’m forever grateful. Vale Chris

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

Please help otherwise the things a lot of you like and a lot of things I try to make might be in real trouble.

Doomlord is on the way! After a few hints, Hibernia Comics has announced they will be reprinting the first very Doomlord photostory from the 1980s Eagle weekly

Following last year's sell-out run, I'm reviving my Halloween double bill of THE SIGNAL-MAN and THE TRIAL FOR MURDER. There'll be six showings at Charles Dickens's only surviving London home, from 31st October to 2nd November. And tickets are now on sale: dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Well that’s the end of that, then. Today Boundless (formerly Unbound), the publisher of my anthologies Damnable Tales and Tales Accursed went into administration. That follows months of uncertainty and hundreds of authors going unpaid for their efforts for over a year. So that’s all good and fine…

Applause, Orkney Library. APPLAUSE.

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)

Thank you all who came and SWEATED through #TargetBookClub. You were a delight. Thanks to standing around all day in The Sweltering, I now have.... Nappy rash 😐

#DoctorWho #TargetBookClub SOLD OUT.

What an eclectic week! Mon: preview screening of Bookish at BFI Tue: Basil Brush at Wilton’s Music Hall Wed: @robinince.bsky.social concluding his Normally Weird, Weirdly Normal book tour @dauntbooks.bsky.social Thu: Live @rnrbook-club.bsky.social podcast #TheIvyHouse with Madness doc UK premiere

A long weekend in Belgium.

A reminder that @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and myself will be doing a live tweetalong to The Stone Tape for this broadcast. All welcome. Just use the hashtag #stonetapelive

A quiet pint at The Lamb on Conduit Street after a trip to the Photographers Gallery to catch Peter Mitchell’s appropriately named exhibition ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ before it ends tomorrow.

I didn’t dream it. It actually happened. I saw the original 1977 release print of Star Wars. Still buzzing. #StarWars #FilmonFilm youtu.be/DLtfTrI8qRo?...

Contact has been established. #TheQuatermassXperiment #HammerFilms

Nearly cried. Never seen the crawler without the EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE text. Original. Untreated. Unburdened by success. A unique experience. #filmonfilm #starwars

BFI Inside the Archive: Stars in Technicolor #FilminFilm #StarWars youtu.be/1bsCliOges0?...

It’s Kathleen Kennedy! #filmonfilm #starwars

Well that was incredible. The most fun I’ve had at the cinema since… a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… #FilmonFilm

#ChatGPT down. Got itself into a scrape? Perhaps because its ceaseless scraping has scraped the bottom of the cultural barrel, impeding real authors from scraping a living, or at least scraping by enough to afford new shoes from whose soles they might have scraped the #AI in which they've trodden.

A cartoon from my next book. Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.

If you hate Greta Thunberg it’s because she, unlike you, refuses to look away. It’s because she’s doing what we all should be, actually. She’s holding up a mirror to our hypocrisy, complicity and complacency. You don’t actually hate her. You hate yourself.

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

I’ve had the best time @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social with @robinince.bsky.social talking about his brilliant book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal. It was an inspiring evening, fizzing with ideas. I didn’t want it to end! Thank you for your kindness and generosity of spirit.

I remain a bit confused by why Normally Weird has had the least media interest of any book I’ve written when I know it is the best and most useful book I’ve written - not annoyed, just wondering - and the plus side is the best reader reaction yet

So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

I'm not a believer in cancel culture, but I do think accountability and transparency matter. Take a bow, the publisher formerly known as Unbound, now Boundless, for yet again defaulting on the debts to us authors - they owe us over half a million. Extract from the latest missive below 1/

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scaroth #DoctorWho

Holy BANANAS, #DoctorWho ! If you’re on here and haven’t watched yet, GET OFFLINE until you can watch it, people will be spoiling the arse off it! Seriously!

3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.

Thank you to everyone who is supporting my new book - I know the mainstream world will mainly ignore it - so your words mean so much www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...