Tom (T.H.) Huddleston

@tomhuddleston.bsky.social

Novelist, non-fiction author and freelance Film & TV writer. THE CRACKS out on Oct 6 2026. Available now: DAVID LYNCH: HIS WORK, HIS WORLD; THE WORLDS OF DUNE, FLOODWORLD trilogy. Frontman: The No Sorrows. #MDANT www.tomhuddleston.co.uk He/Him

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

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Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

I see this and I think about all the long years of relentless filthy abuse these swine have thrown at good and well-meaning people, to make the country more comfortable and more compliant for thoroughly unpleasant and actively malicious people like themselves.

'Brilliant, provocative, inimitable'
Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, comhined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit writes Alex Farter

As someone who writes non-fiction that's basically structured around quotes from filmmakers, authors etc, this is just weird. Why on earth would you use quotes you didn't find in books and/or articles from reputable sources? Also, where else are you getting them? ChatGPT?

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work

This ex-Labour MP quit, avoiding a sexual harassment investigation; set up an opaquely funded “anti-extremism” campaign that was all over TV and radio in a general election urging the public to vote Tory; was then given a peerage (a non-job for life in the legislature) by Tory leader Boris Johnson…

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