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(((Dan Hodges))) Private Eye…

More passionate Conservatism: theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Great piece from Aditya Chakrabortty about 'the Durham village that refused to die'.

It runs parallel to what I try to convey in my fiction, especially CUDDY and PIG IRON.

That North/South divide is real...

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The next Post Office scandal: The Guardian view on carer’s allowance: people who look after others should not be an afterthought theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Abortion is healthcare: decriminalise it across the UK - Sign the Petition! chng.it/v894qL4K via Change.org UK

£1,500 - how much Angela Rayner is accused of owing

£29,000,000 - how much Michelle Mone who is an unelected Baroness in the House of Lords secretly received from a PPE contact which is sat off shore

£120,000,000 - how much Michael Ashcroft, who was formerly Lord Ashcroft…

And on my booklist she goes!

The worst Prime Minister of Britain since Anthony Eden, the man whose long series of lies & lazy misjudgements has done more damage to this country than anyone else in modern history, rides to the support of his Israeli counterpart, the equally catastrophic Benjamin Netanyahu.…

Finally got around to reading this incredible article by Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Hands down, the best subtitle for a novel ever! New Olga Tokarczuk (trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) coming in September from Fitzcarraldo Editions

A lone voice of sense in the wilderness..
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Oh come on - how the fuck am I supposed to parody that?!

The distinctive horror of the Holocaust was that mass murder was carried out as if on an assembly line at a factory, using all the lastest techniques in logistics, management, and engineering.
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Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

Wow. This is quite something.

This is what I've been waiting my entire horror-movie-loving life for: a reimagining of the The Bride of Frankenstein - made even cooler as it's directed by a woman

The original was, for my money, the most dazzling horror film ever made

To a new world of gods and monsters!

We need a two-pronged approach to Israel and arms. We need to both ban our own export of arms and ban any import of Israeli arms. Israel is a large worldwide exporter of arms, and this might have a greater economic (apart from moral) impact.

Morally, we stop arms sales to Israel even though its effect will be symbolic as we export very little. We export considerably more arms to Saudi Arabia. Israel is a large arms exporter however. If countries combined to ban the purchase of Israeli arms however....