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Andrew Furlow

@andrewfurlow.bsky.social
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Book publishing person, formerly of Harper North, @iconbooks & @greystonebooks. Always on the lookout for new book ideas & authors, esp. in history / politics / music / culture

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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Found this fellow under a rock in our garden today:
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I quite enjoyed this place earlier this year: maps.app.goo.gl/PfuPAoTQX9MN...
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I like how this lady, at the base of the Crucifixion, is already pushing the branded merch:
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“A spectre is haunting Europe.”
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I had no idea this was an option.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 28/09/2026
'In 2022, it became apparent that a larger facility was needed to handle the influx of visitors to the memorial stone, and a full Cliff Burton Museum was opened. There is no equivalent museum for heavy metal’s other lost heroes...' The Legacy of #CliffBurton buff.ly/EGRd3ix
Inside The Cliff Burton Museum, by Tom Johansson.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our house is in that pic!
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New band name
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I see your cat in a box and raise you a cat in a bag
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rees-Mogg is such a helpful corrective to the Tory myth. All that education, all that wealth, all that power, all those old-fashioned values, all those practised affectations, and oh look, this is how he spends his time, the money-grubbing old prick.
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really sad to hear this news today
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thin glasses there I see, despite what Get Carter might lead one to think about Newcastle pubs
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026
thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘ELECTRIC WIZARDS: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present’ is five years old already. Have you read it? Did you recommend it to anybody? What’s your favourite section? Why is there a whole chapter on FUNK? Any musical discoveries from its pages? ⚡️🧙‍♂️🤘🎸 📕 🎂 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #booksky
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hadn’t heard that Frances Stoner Saunders had died - what a loss! Like everyone i loved Who Paid… but very much enjoyed The Suitcase fairly recently too www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary
Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The headline doesn’t do justice to this piece. It is extremely good, thoughtful and philosophical. I hate the pervert glasses so much, and this expresses exactly why. (Yes, with a carve out for people who actually need assistive tech, as the piece also says.)
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David talks to philosopher and author Nikhil Krishnan about the life and times of a little known but highly influential 20th-century philosopher: J. L. Austin, who believed that the deepest truths lay in understanding how ordinary language worked. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I thought it was a lovely doc. Most keen to hear what @goingmedieval.bsky.social thinks!
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Dolly tribute you didn’t know you needed (feat. @drkerryandrew.bsky.social and others): youtu.be/RM1bhmlTPag?...
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Dolly Does Dolly
YouTube video by Dollyman - Topic
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A brilliant piece in @thequietus.com here from @audioontology.bsky.social on my favourite Maiden album, Somewhere in Time, which grasps its rich play with time itself: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Haunted By Time: Iron Maiden's Wasted Years & Somewhere In Time Revisited | The Quietus
Jamie Stephenson examines Iron Maiden as time travellers, breaking down the barriers between past, present and future.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Ukrainian publishers call for support after Russian attacks destroy 10m books
The country risks ‘the collapse of the entire book ecosystem’ following destruction of warehouses in July and August, say Ukrainian publishers
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m listening to this book read by its author @robcowen.bsky.social It’s astonishing! Layer upon layer of poetic prose and hard fact, it’s like reaching down to the soul of the land and its tracks, Rob’s personal story makes us contemplate our own and the roads we live by and have traveled. So good!
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today I, and other UK climate scientists, sent an open letter to the Energy Secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, asking her to take serious note of the science when making a decision about the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil fields @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Summer book post: the perfect beach-on-fire read!" "A great recent book on the subject is 'The Fate of the World' from the outspoken Bill McGuire, who takes us through our geological past to put the present in context" Thank you so much Ben Carey - Creative Director, Utopia Bureau
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As governments row back on green measures, there has never been a more important time to make a lot of noise True, many climate scientists are speaking out and taking action, but many more are still hiding in the undergrowth This is just not good enough www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Want to join IHN? You can now sign up as a member for just £10 a year! You'll get our newsletter, access to free online events with experts, invites to our meet-ups and access to online resources. The more of us, the better! Do join up! membermojo.co.uk/independenth...
Group of wooden people with the words "membership has arrived (hurray)"
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This would be devastating. Let's hope that it can quickly be reversed.
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I was also thinking when I was there how much of a historical fuck-you it is that this riotously queer party happens, with public funds, moments away from what was once Nazi central. What happened yesterday diminishes that not one bit
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is so grim and sad. I’m just on my way back from Berlin and was there at Pride briefly, maybe 30mins before the attack. It was such a joyful and inclusive and transgressive party at that point; it’s so upsetting that someone felt the need to spoil it
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Music Maps Podcast @musicmaps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEXT WEEK: our only event in the coming weeks so join us to talk Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath & more with Keith Kahn-Harris & his new book THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - Thursday July 30th, Mothers Ruin, Walthamstow, 7pm - tickets: tinyurl.com/4rs9sdb2
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Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I really enjoyed talking all things Ozzy and metal with The Spoken Metal Show Podcast. And I am thinking of getting a tattoo of the show's highly apposite logo. [The show is also on Spotify] soundcloud.com/user-7325494...
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Keith Kahn-Harris is a British sociologist and music critic. He is an honorary research fellow and senior lecturer at Birkbeck College. Keith graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Goldsmiths Univers
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...
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‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project
The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026
The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Roses are red So is Carnation
Headline: "Inside Chernobyl, a Fungus Has Been Quietly Feasting on Radiation"
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Extraordinary Books @extraordinarybooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What if one of the twentieth century's greatest artists also happened to be its most unlikely detective? Come and join us for a conversation between Oscar de Muriel and SJ Bennett at Librería! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-end-of...
Cover of The End of the Vodka with information about a book event: Oscar de Muriel in conversation with SJ Bennett, Tuesday 21st July, 6.30-8.30 pm, Librería, 65 Hanbury Street, London E1 5JP
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Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.
Rude Erudition
Writing about Joanne Paul’s recent biography of Thomas More (LRB, 6 November), Lucy Wooding observes that ‘More could proclaim “the beshitted tongue” of Luther “most fit to lick” the “posterior of a pissing she-mule”.’ She adds: ‘This kind of rhetoric sits uncomfortably with the accepted view of More as, if not a saint, at least a scholar of immense sophistication.’ But even here More is showing his erudition, since he is almost certainly adapting a line from the Roman poet Catullus. Here is More’s Latin: ‘ut vel meientis mulae posteriora lingat.’ And here is Catullus 97, lines 7-8: ‘praeterea rictum qualem diffissus in aestu/meientis mulae cunnus habere solet.’ Rough translation: ‘and besides, he tends to hold his mouth open like the gaping cunt of a pissing she-mule in heat.’ Even when the humanists were vulgar, it was often with ancient precedent in mind.
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We did the same but had to forward through much of the second half to avoid the crippling anxiety…
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Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's been a year since the Back To The Beginning concert. I found it profoundly moving and wrote this article for @thequietus.com. That led to @andrewfurlow.bsky.social inviting me to write a book about Ozzy. 'Life-changing' is an overused term but applies here. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park  | The Quietus
Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
‘Kahn-Harris has done his subject matter a great service. It’s not just a book about Osbourne, but a book about legacy and mortality. Ozzy Osbourne was a flawed person, but aren’t we all?’ Excellent!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Can’t read this yet thanks to their paywall but very pleased to see The Irish Times review @keithkahnharris.bsky.social’s The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne today:
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now out in hardback, e-book and audiobook For chapter headings and to read an extract, subscribe free to my Substack #CoolEarth newsletter Please do share 👍😊
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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 29/06/2026
"Charismatic Stokes" ought to have been one of the names on The Mayflower in 1620.
A screenshot of the top of the Guardian's front page. It says: "A helter-skelter ride: Charismatic Stokes is one of England’s best captains ever", then it has the Guardian logo below.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
At risk of sounding arrogant, the #FOTW contains urgent info about where our climate, our world, and our society are headed, which everyone needs to hear But it is getting very little traction 😞 Please help share and promote 🙂 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @jporritt.bsky.social @anthonyhorowitz.com
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If you think the coming week is hot You ain't seen nuthin' yet We are rewinding the climate clock back millions of years Our world is in the throes of rapid prehistorification and it is not going to end well
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