During your lunch, why not read a fun little story about a dog, which will make you chunder and laugh in equal measure. I'm also looking for people to volunteer to read the book - for free - before launch. You can apply at the bottom of the excerpt. thewolfthatchewsrocks.com/introduction...
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Why your dog is weird, according to science. Read an extract from Russell Jones’s funny illustrated popular-science book about dogs.
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Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 23h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Addictive reading, this article. I knew the basics of the story well, but wasn't aware of the historical background, particularly not how paranoid the Soviets were. 🥸
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2d agoGiven we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
A great piece on Venice Noir. But if I'd known I was going to be in it I'd have had a better haircut.
NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Jokes’ like the one Zack Polanski shared on social media only help Farage deflect scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Another corker from Mr P & the regulars.
Mr Pecksniff's Diary@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 5d agoFrom Westminster gossip to Norfolk council politics, today we leave few targets untouched. Political plotting, Reform's future, Labour's honeymoon & a mysteriously empty bar all feature. Plus another deserving trip to the bin..
In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.
THIS IS TRUE We get paid when you borrow and you get to read our books. Happy days!!
Andrew Jack@andrewjack.bsky.social · 5d agoEvery writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.
If someone you know is persuaded by Farage's fearmongering over footage of migrants crossing from Morocco to Ceuta, tell them this: Third-country nationals in Ceuta do not have free movement to mainland Spain or the rest of the Schengen area. Spanish officials say over 25K have already returned.
Far right politicians will use the incident at the Morocco-Ceuta border to stoke division, fear and hatred. Don't let them.
Question: anyone got any experience with batch exporting files from Ulysses? At the moment AFAICT it's either export as a single text file or share each sheet individually, which is annoying. I'm guessing I need to go find the library and do it manually...
Write About What You Don’t Know Here's a wonderful myth, one you'll hear retold from writing class to university up and down the land: 'Write about what you know.' I almost fall off my chair laughing typing those words. Shakespeare never set foot in Denmark but he wrote Hamlet. He almost certainly…
Write About What You Don’t Know
Here's a wonderful myth, one you'll hear retold from writing class to university up and down the land: 'Write about what you know.' I almost fall off my chair laughing typing those words. Shakespeare never set foot in Denmark but he wrote Hamlet. He almost certainly never visited Italy, yet he wrote Othello, The Merchant of Venice, …
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I strongly believe that one question we should be directing at more politicians is "What the fuck is the matter with you"
Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · last wk.I remember arguing with someone - now an MP - about soup kitchens: I saw them as a response to need, whereas they saw them as enabling homelessness. Enabling homelessness. As though homeless people made themselves so as a lark.
The Venice Noir signup link for coming news is now live. Just scroll down the page at www.venicenoir.com and you'll find it. Sorry we didn't manage to get it up there for Harrogate.
Venice Noir – The International Festival of Noir Literature
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Thanks so much to all of you who came to our Venice Noir event at Harrogate. If you need any advice before you book your tickets just ask 😁
This might be Britain’s most delightfully bonkers world championship. Think peas, pipes and competitors training months ahead. One village’s quirky contest that has visitors from around the world. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @aidanbaker.bsky.social
The curious rise of competitive peashooting
A schoolroom punishment became Witcham’s famous peashooting championship, drawing competitors of all ages for decades
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Count Binface has managed to reduce Farage's protest to farce, and he and his trash-can helmet are now at the centre of media attention | Julia Mazza
Count Binface and the humiliation of Nigel Farage
Count Binface has managed to reduce Farage's protest to farce, and he and his trash-can helmet are now at the centre of media attention
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Joseph Briggs-Ritchie>Scarfolk Tourism Bureau Available now from all vaguely adequate bookshops
Britain is an island – so why are its coastal communities an afterthought? No single minister is responsible for the coast – and it shows in jobs, housing, and transport. A local MP, Steff Aquarone, has thoughts on this.
Britain is an island. We need a coastal minister
Britain is an island, yet coastal communities are too often overlooked. A dedicated coastal minister would give them a voice in Government
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Down at the Muckrakers Arms, mischievous Pecksniff: - explores why Burnham is writing his own political story instead of responding to everyone else's. - peers behind the headlines at the real cabinet intrigue. - finds plenty to amuse him in Clacton's extraordinary by-election. Enjoy!
Pecksniff: Burnham wants to tell his own story in his own way
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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