Sathnam Sanghera
@sathnam.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
Not to go all Joxley, but the utter collapse of a sense of community pride and social responsibility within the Conservative party is at the heart of their current woes.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 20h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
If you met someone who had fallen out of love with reading, and you had one shot at getting them back into it, what book would you give them? For a thing.
The Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A woman in Lidl stopped me next to the sausage fridge and asked for help reading a note she had in their hand. The note said Lidl.
I’ve written about cooking in a holiday kitchen for my column in the FT, in the paper this Sat the 1st, and online now. And I have a gift link for the first 300 readers who click on it! as.ft.com/r/87d76288-d...
Nigella Lawson: How to survive a holiday kitchen
A rental is rarely well equipped, but its indignities can become part of the pleasure — provided you pack the few things you truly need
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The Society's lecture programme resumes in September when we welcome speakers @gsoh31.bsky.social, Meleisa Ono-George and @sathnam.bsky.social, among others. We also hope to welcome you to these public events, in-person or online. Further details of our autumn events bit.ly/3RIOJrQ #Skystorians
Forthcoming lectures from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
The Society takes a break from public events in August before resuming its lecture programme in September. Booking is now available for the next three lectures in our autumn season, with these events ...
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The World Cup without UEFA means no Mbappe, no Bellingham, no Haaland, no Olise, no Yamal It means no England, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium It means no Zidane, Tuchel, Klopp The World Cup this year without Europe would have just been Argentina & Egypt in the final 8 UEFA must hold firm
Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer
cashier today told me he knew me from twitter and said him and his partner still use “the butter’s penthouse” 😭
The next trip will probably be to Dignitas www.thetimes.com/article/5d2c...
Why middle-aged men like us have swapped the pub for the spa
Sathnam Sanghera and his two best friends have a combined age of 150 and a long list of midlife ailments. Will they finally learn to take their bodies seriously — at a luxury wellness retreat?
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Birmingham Literature Festival is BACK! From the 8th-12th October plus Readers’ Day, featuring a stellar lineup, including: Sathnam Sanghera, Zakia Sewell, Dr Kate Lister, M. John Harrison, Margaret Busby, Adele Zeynep Walton and many more! Tickets: birminghamliteraturefestival.org
Louise Casey makes the point that care is underpaid compared to the NHS - another example of a Cinderella service so painfully laid bare during Covid-19. Care workers get an average annual salary of £23k. NHS healthcare worker starts on £25k. We undervalue care as a society.
Andy Burnham has gone up in my estimation by 900% since he has made social care an obsession.
Rupert Lowe claims to detest far-right ethnonationalism and neo-Nazism. Yet a string of extremists have been out campaigning for Restore candidate Marlon West ahead of Thursday’s Greater Manchester mayoral election.
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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I went to the same school as Bill Oddie (KES in Birmingham) and there were legends that he'd once arrived at school on horseback and also had put up diversion signs which meant all the traffic along the main Bristol Road had to pass through the school grounds but I don't know if either is true.
No one talks about how a large percentage of seats in an imax basically give you the experience of watching a film on your back, on your living room floor
I am *absolutely sick* of hearing about young people as 'benefit scroungers'. Nearly 60% of welfare spending goes on pensioners! The people writing this stuff know that too.
The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
If I were a person in the past writing a document that may be looked at by historians one day I would simply have legible handwriting
Fascinating piece by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social on Trojan Souls. sathnam.com/george www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
Suing his record label and sick of being a sex symbol, the singer spent 1992 working on the Trojan Souls for stars including Aretha Franklin and Bryan Ferry. Now, newly released studio footage shows h...
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This is the most important thing any Prime Minister could do for Britain. Massive issue that we are mostly in denial about. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Andy Burnham tells BBC NHS 'will collapse' without social care reform
The prime minister says he would not want to leave office without bringing in "substantial change" to the social care system.
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