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Bella Mackie

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I wrote the book you gave your mum as a Christmas gag. www.waterstones.com/book/what-a-way…

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A strong whiff of "don't you know who I am" here. And, do tell, who broke it? Your former husband and his mates?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is superb to the point of essential. Philippe Sands was a key source for our episodes on genocide and Klein conducts an excellent interview podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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When Is It Genocide?
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 13/08/2025 · 1h 43m
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Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Really good deep reporting by @noahshachtman.bsky.social (plus some jaw-dropping anecdotes) in this story about the growing internal crisis at the ADL nymag.com/intelligence...
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Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I wrote about antidepressant withdrawal and why the general advice about coming off ssris is so unhelpful for a lot of people www.thetimes.com/article/1ba8...
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Bella Mackie: What doctors never told me about quitting antidepressants
After 20 years on the drugs, the author suffered severe withdrawal. She had no idea how difficult it would be
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Read this today www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social
An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess. 

The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/05/2025
The final CrimeFest Awards shortlist has been revealed, and features authors including @bellamackie.bsky.social, @lyndalaplante.bsky.social and DG Coutinho ( @dgcwords.bsky.social ), among others 👇 #BookSky
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Final CrimeFest Awards shortlist features Bella Mackie, Lynda La Plante and DG Coutinho
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low-tax jurisdictions including Monaco, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, taking advantage of Britain’s loose funding rules to bolster its coffers. www.ft.com/content/b133...
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Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy
Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My latest book - WHAT A WAY TO GO - is out in paperback on Thursday. To mark it, I’m doing an event with my husband in London. Get tickets here (if you like) www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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An Evening with Bella Mackie and Greg James at Conway Hall, London | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Bella Mackie and Greg James at Conway Hall, London today.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Let me get this straight: Fringe extremist infiltrates a major political party, rises to the rank of Vice President, throws around diplomatic weight to force a meeting with the Pope, and then MURDERS said Pope? Folks. This is a Dan Brown novel.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hugely keen on this Jesus guy
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Chloe @chloexm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Next time someone asks me this ridiculous question I’m just gonna send them this link 🙃
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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
'No-one is talking about young men' increasingly occupies the same space as 'we need an honest conversation about immigration'. We never shut up about young men. It's one of the only things we ever talk about, although admittedly only ever to say 'we need to be more reactionary'.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I wrote a very personal piece about why I’m not having children open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...
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Why I don't want children
A vulnerable post, this one
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Borzoi Bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We are very excited about this event with bestselling author Bella Mackie in conversation with Radio 1 breakfast show host Greg James. 🎫 Tickets are selling fast so grab yours now! @bellamackie.bsky.social @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
All social media platforms are absolutely mental for the brain. Just five seconds of scrolling here gave me “the earth’s core is changing,” a recipe for rhubarb crumble by Nigella, then a post about an imminent bird flu pandemic before finally a photo of a dog in a hat.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/01/2025
[eloquently] The President should be a totally different guy than he has been for his entire life.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I wrote about harbouring delusions I could be amazing at things I’ve never even done and some of the comments made me howl. open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Freddie’s flowers touts stand outside branches of Gails with bouquets in the basket of an old timey bike as if in an advertorial directed by Richard Curtis.
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Charlotte @charlotte-louise.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
January Read #1 I love @bellamackie.bsky.social and this compliments HTKYF perfectly. She provides a hilarious perspective on the ridiculous lives of the super rich! There's nothing better than a book that makes you grateful your not rich. Can't wait for her next one! #booksky
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69052/...
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Mark Zuckerberg has made me rethink what it means to be a man (and the size of my neck)
The Meta chief is one of the richest and most successful people in the world, so we should all pay close attention to what he’s saying—except, perhaps, when it’s about how to hunt pigs
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
including replies, Musk has posted more than 1180 times in seven days www.ft.com/content/8e91...
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How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Wrote about perfect Christmas reading for the guardian here - www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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‘Perfect for winter nights’: the best crime novels to read at Christmas according to Ian Rankin, Bella Mackie and more
From Maigret to Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, authors choose the whodunnits they love to hunker down with at this time of year
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Matthew Garrahan @mattgarrahan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
NEW: Reform treasurer Nick Candy tells the FT other billionaires are waiting to join Elon Musk in backing the party to disrupt UK politics on.ft.com/3ZPiKq3
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Nick Candy vows to help Reform disrupt British politics ‘like we have never seen’
[FREE TO READ] Property developer claims more billionaires are joining Elon Musk in backing the party
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We need to start recognising online radicalisation as a mental illness.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
There are gift guides everywhere so I wrote my own. It’s present ideas for people you hate (feat a dead horse dressed up as a unicorn). bellamackie.substack.com/p/a-horrible...
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A horrible gift guide
Don’t buy any of these for someone you love
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
i hadn't noticed how bad it's gotten on X, but there's been a few days this week where my tiktok feed has been full of ed vids, like one after the other seemingly out of nowhere!!!! (maybe coming from cooking/beauty vids i engaged with? idk!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Eating-Disorder Content Is Thriving on X
One of the thorniest content-moderation problems grows out of control with neglect.
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Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
From now until the end of the year, I’m going to share books I’ve loved in 2024. Next up is What a Way to Go by @bellamackie.bsky.social
A kindle showing the cover of What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Quite weird if you were one of the authors to find out the ceo shooter had reviewed you on goodreads.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Duolingo became unusable for me last year after they tried to make every level into a game for five year olds, Babbel’s interface was baffling. Are there any language apps you recommend?
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 04/12/2024
Prospect’s annual Top Thinkers shortlist has arrived! Chosen thinkers include @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and many more. Vote for your favourite—and tell us who should have been on the list but isn’t. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds...
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25 thinkers for an uncertain world
Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick t...
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I got so angry when Nigel Farage suggested parliament debate abortion limits that I wrote about my own experience with abortion. A “suggestion” from Farage won’t be the only attack on abortion rights we see…https://bellamackie.substack.com/p/ghouls-incels-and-misogynists to
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Ghouls, incels and misogynists
Oh my!
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Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"If the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil [Gaiman] that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know." Powerful, moving interview with Tori Amos by Kira Cochrane in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
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Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: ‘It’s a heartbreaking grief’
The musician is back with a live album and as passionate as ever. She discusses fans, failure, muses, misogyny – and why she won’t tolerate bad behaviour
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Truly there is nothing more shameless than the Uber adverts running on allll podcasts atm which boast about how proud they are to offer their workers rights (they were court ordered to, appealed and lost).
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
You can do Farnborough to London in 40 minutes for £20 on the train. Yet it's the most popular route for private jet travel in the UK. Let's not pretend this is normal www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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Why it’s time for the ultra-rich to abandon luxury—and their private jets—to save the world
Do you fancy chartering a private jet for a £1m world tour? Perhaps £62,000 on a new watch, or £89,000 on a bracelet? There is a magazine to cater to ...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 30/11/2024
God they're such boring fucking stereotypes. Killing helpless animals for fun and shitting on women and LGBT people and then instantly getting offended when anyone even slightly disagrees with that garbage
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The best sub Reddit is AccidentalRenaissance, hands down
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thrilled that The Times has picked my latest book as one of their books of the year!
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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You used to call me on my self-own
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I stumbled upon Donald Trump’s guardian Q&A from 2007. His answers are both deeply boring and very revealing. www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
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Q&A
Donald Trump, 61, business executive, entrepreneur and author
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I have a theory (that I just made up). Much like hem lines are supposedly influenced by the economy, the bleaker things are, the earlier people buy Christmas trees. I’ve seen so many in people’s windows in the past week, and it’s not even December.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The end of bingo in Camden. The builders let me have a look and I felt very sad for the older people who socialised here.
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iCod @icod.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s like a bad dream you can’t wait to wake up from.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Earlier I watched Buy now: the shopping conspiracy and now The Day After Tomorrow is on and I feel like one shouldn’t watch both of those things in a 24 hour period.
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Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Big day for Captain Tom’s family watchers. The grift that keeps on giving.
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Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Don’t get me wrong I’m enjoying bluesky , but for sheer level of banter threads remains unmatched
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