This weekend I will be back to sell at one of my favourite events: CYMERA FESTIVAL in Edinburgh 💜 An excellent few days of joyous celebrating Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romantasy and more!! @cymerafestival.co.uk #cymerafestival #bookevent #booksky (1/3)
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UK joining the EU is inevitable because it’s undeniable that outside in the UK is weaker, poorer and more isolated outside. These are facts. You can’t then demand your government do better, fix services, fix the economy, yet deny them the largest and most single opportunity to do just that #RejoinEU
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated James Sidlow has resigned as a councillor. That’s 30 in 3 weeks.
As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21
As Pride Month approaches, we wanted to showcase the range of fandom-neutral pride merchandise we sell! 🏳️🌈💛🏳️⚧️ As a queer-owned and nearly entirely queer-run business, pride is super important to us all year round, and we're so proud of our pride merch! Which is your favourite? #LitPinsAndCo #Pride
So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?
CALL FOR ARTISTS 🎨 Are you a Chinese illustrator? Do you take commercial commissions? If the answer to this is "yes", we have an upcoming project at LitPins&Co and are looking for artists! Drop your portfolio in the comments, and if we think you're the right fit we'll be in touch in future!
Farage claims his phone was hacked by Russia and that this highlights the “threat they pose to British security”. Which is odd because 7yrs ago he had the chance to strengthen laws against Russian interference but he voted against it, saying the claims were “baseless” The man is never, ever right.
Oh, hello! My @litpinsandco.bsky.social special edition of @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent has arrived. Ordered it last year when it was announced so I'd totally forgotten about it, but it's lovely, the artwork is fabulous. Still a great read too.
Water privatisation has been outright theft. Whoever is next PM must commit to ending this scandal and take our water back into public ownership. No more failed regulation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid
Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government
theguardian.com
Millions of us are straightforward and honest with our financial affairs. The very least we should demand is that our members of parliament do the same. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage facing new questions over home purchase funding
Reform UK has insisted the £5m party leader Nigel Farage received in April 2024 from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne was a gift.
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A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper
People now debating whether we should rejoin the EU… Surely the real question is: Why on earth wouldn’t we?!
CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly. MP’s must step up and oppose the governments plans
The governments plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace. youtu.be/DI1arGGNP50?...
Nigel Farage is posting “We now have 200,000 reasons Reform should be in government” The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group
Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle
theguardian.com
Every time a new Reform UK councillor resigns or is sacked, remember it’s £35k of taxpayers money that could have been avoided if Reform UK vetted properly. That’s on Dr David Bull and Jaymey McIvor. £35k every time.
I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
The BBC’s description of people who choose to attend a Tommy Robinson march. “Peacefully expressing their interpretation of British identity”
President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
In 2015, the UK scored 86% on LGBTQ rights protections. This year, we’re down to 43.9%, and as a big old homosexual living here, I would be lying if I said that doesn’t increasingly worry me.
A Big Old Homosexual’s Growing Sense of Dread
The UK still calls itself progressive on LGBTQ rights, but the data, and the mood, tell a more complicated story.
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The next Labour leader must move decisively away from the status quo to beat Reform. That means giving power and wealth to working class people. It means a democratic revolution, rent controls and public ownership of water. It means someone who isn't Wes Streeting.
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
BOOKISH PRINTS AND BOOKMARKS! It’s been a hot minute since I last posted about my paper offerings: prints and bookmarks! #bookthreads #illustrations STOCK CHECK: Go Away I’m Reading Book Rainbow Print - 7 left Thorny Dagger in Purple Print - 9 left (1 of 4 posts)
Best part about seeing the #GreenWindaes around Edinburgh & Lothians East? The posters that locals have paired with them — for taxing the rich, solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 , with women’s autonomy over their bodies, trans solidarity 🏳️⚧️ On the 7th of May, we show up and fight back.
Yes. Stop Farage. Stop Reform. Stop the corruption. Stop the racism. Stop the misogyny. Stop the hatred. Stop the cruelty. Stop the incompetence. Stop the division. Stop the threats. Stop the fascism. Stop the failure. Just, ffs, stop him.
This time next week we have the chance to vote for a fairer, greener, kinder Scotland. We can bring hope back to politics. Let's demand better Vote Scottish Greens
The last of my FAUX GENRE BOOKSHOP acrylic keyrings are now reduced to just £2 each 👀 ONE TRUE LOVE ROMANCE BOOKSHOP - 6 left in stock WE DREAM OF SCI-FI BOOKSHOP - 8 left in stock felfiramoondesigns.com (search acrylic keyrings or check out the whole clearance section 😜) #booksky