Happy publication day to me!

I have a pretty busy summer of festival appearances, check out all details and links here:
dougjohnstone.com/events/

Thank you so much Madeleine Black
Crow blessings coming your way! 🖤💫🐦‍⬛

'This is an excellently researched, plotted and presented novel. The historical context is superb and thoroughly accurate.'

Brilliant and very insightful review of Blood Roses on the Historical Novel Society website, with thanks to Douglas Kemp.

historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/blood-…

Tricia Marwick This kind of journalistic error does real damage to politics more generally. And it is so wildly, embarrassingly wrong. A claim the FM will get £52K a year for the rest of his life when it is actually £2K a year from age of 65. Unbelievable.

This is the book my wife has worked on for years, while also lecturing and having our children. It's done. And it's brilliant. I just cried with pride and - honestly - relief. I don't know the right word for that but I bet every author - or author's spouse - knows the feeling.

My historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE is just 99p this month on Kindle in the UK! amazon.co.uk/Ritual-Fire-Ex…

The #WASPI Campaign women will always have my unwavering support and admiration.

The WASPI women are not just fighting for themselves, but for my daughters too.

It would be a complete betrayal if Labour and the Tories fail to deliver the compensation WASPI women deserve.

In 2011/2 MPs on the @CommonsCMSwere were probing Rupert Murdoch’s company. Result? 7 of them had their phones targeted – literally hundreds of calls from the company’s phone hub. This pattern is what @byNickDavies has been investigating for Prospect (🧵 - 1)

Anyone who does the weekly food shop will know these claims about low food inflation are lies. Some items at Tesco went up 50% last week alone 😡news.sky.com/story/lowest-s…

The government has just paid a failed asylum seeker £3,000 to go to Rwanda voluntarily.

Here's why it could cost the British taxpayer a further £140,000.

@c4ciaran has the latest from our C4 News FactCheck team.

Financial journalist Paul Lewis tells us why life in Scotland under The SNP Scottish Government is better. You get what you pay for. You get the government you choose. You choose parties with the values and principles which matter to you.

Last few days - make sure you, and any adults you know with dyslexia in Scotland have your voices heard.

Your regular reminder that Michelle Mone has never received the same level of scrutiny for being linked to millions of pounds of dodgy PPE as the SNP has done over a campervan!

David Cameron World Economic Forum

Police believe golden eagle 'Merrick' was shot & killed in south Scotland.

Here's the official press release & my commentary ⬇️⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/05/01/pol…

I have been given permission to do a low key announcement and say that -- in my writer's guise -- I'm coming back, baby! New novel has a new publisher -- it'll be crime fic... and coming back the fair city of Dundee! More details coming soon when I'm allowed to say more!

The Book Week Scotland Emerging Programmers scheme is back! Apply for a £250 stipend, £500 event budget and meetings with me. Deadline 31st of May.

On the day that #brexit border checks kick in I remind you of what Jacob Rees Mogg said about them .....

#brexit #brexit reality #sevington James O'Brien

Kate Forbes MSP 👆🏻👀Am I reading this correctly?
It looks like Gove has doubled the spend on SEZs from £80 million per zone to £160 million, multiplied by 74 SEZs = £11,840 billion!