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Clare Weze

@clareweze.bsky.social
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Author of UP ABOVE THE CITY and THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, science editor, CILIP Carnegie 2022 nominee, Northern Writers' Award-winner. Agent: Abi Fellows, DHH Literary Agency (Weze is pronounced Way-Zay) clareweze.com linktr.ee/ClareWeze

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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mushrooms in Sizergh Castle car park, UK
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 19/06/2026
Renegade has signed romcom debut Chaotic Female Lead by Christine Pillainayagam. 👇
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Renegade snaps up Christine Pillainayagam’s debut adult romcom
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John @john-trig-sab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so true.
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An underrated reply, bravo!
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think that's exactly what she hopes
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Your whole programme on this was fantastic, James. I'm very grateful to you.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A characteristically coruscating thread from Mr Snow.
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations on yesterday! I've read the opening (on the bad place) and love it, looking forward to reading the rest.
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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Here are some places you can get Black Bag! but you should really get it from your local bookshop because that’s the only way we have anything resembling a functional culture in the UK. www.hachette.co.uk/titles/luke-...
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Black Bag
In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psyc...
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mushrooms in Sizergh Castle car park, UK
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“There’s an unwritten rule that says disabled people should just be grateful for what we’re given by the state, lest be scroungers or burdens. I say unwritten. It’s written in newspapers most weeks.” My col. on the care users fighting for the right to go abroad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan
This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage IS the establishment. There’s no-one more establishment than him. Public school, the city, career in politics, mates in all the right places, terrible dress sense.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New novel from Sebastian Barry forthcoming
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fascinating - a sad and unique story. I like the honest way you've dealt with it here
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Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I found the way Mary Austin talked to me about Freddie Mercury and his impact on her life incredibly moving – and surprising. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life
He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, ...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excellent column! Heartily agree. 'Fatism' (not a word, but I won't let that stop me...) reminds me of racism. It's thinly veiled hatred, perpetrated by some very sick and nasty people
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My column this week is about how fat people can’t win and I’m fucking sick of it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough | Rebecca Shaw
Using weight loss drugs like Ozempic is not ‘cheating’ – and why does it matter how a person changes their body anyway?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/08/2026
Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough
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Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough
Using weight loss drugs like Ozempic is not ‘cheating’ – and why does it matter how a person changes their body anyway?
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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There is nothing scientific about The Great ADHD Myth? ‘documentary’ | Gina Rippon
Channel 4’s programme wastes a chance to ask important questions about how ADHD is diagnosed and treated, instead indulging in unscientific methods and conspiracy theories, says author Gina Rippon
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“I’ve been full time at The Guardian for over a decade now. I’m the first columnist in the country to use a wheelchair. I’m still one of the only visibly disabled journalists in the press. That is objectively batshit.” I wrote about the British media’s diversity problem. shorturl.at/ZHX5W
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Introducing: Press Access
The things nobody tells disabled journalists about getting into an industry that wasn’t built for us.
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Afua Hirsch is so often right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen | Afua Hirsch
The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracks, says journalist and academic Afua Hirs...
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a fantastic article:
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a great bookshop, please if you can help them out in any way, do - buy a book, for example!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
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Sign the Urgent Petition - End this rip-off
People in the UK are struggling to get by while some corporations are set to announce record high profits on the back of the Iran war. Join the campaign to demand these war profiteers are taxed so we ...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/08/2026
The pressure is mounting. Now is the time to act. Join over 83,000 people and message your local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/ema…
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Totally agree. The #r4Today coverage was ridiculously unbalanced.
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
perfectly put
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wrote a thing about Rod Liddle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so | Zoe Williams
A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just saw this is over 60k this morning! He needs 75k so can you help push it up up up if you have anything to spare? And if you don't, please do share! #Booksky
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New author photos! I had a shoot with the very talented @fleurhudsonphotography and I'm so taken with the artistry and sheer imagination of what she's done 🦋
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Nice article. I deviate from the outline deliciously once I'm in the story, too. It’s the best feeling – like flying!
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Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com · 17/07/2026
Where do ideas actually come from? Never a straight line. Wrote about where the idea for my new standalone, Once a Liar, came from and a bit of my writing process. If you were at my SOA session recently, some of this will feel familiar 📝 nadinematheson.substack.com/p/the-body-o...
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Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🎉Happy 1st book birthday🎉to my debut #ShortStory collection #TheNamingOfMoths. Tales of myths, monsters & mothers. Available from award-winning small press Fly On The Wall Press, #Waterstones, #Amazon & indie #bookshops in the UK. Or borrow from your local #Library! #MagicRealism
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/07/2026
If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
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If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
The idea that former colonies should pay reparations makes perfect sense to the new right. But have they got the telescope the right way round, asks author and broadcaster Nels Abbey
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/06/2026
Ben Jennings on Britain’s anti-immigration protests – cartoon
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Ben Jennings on Britain’s anti-immigration protests – cartoon
Keir Starmer has criticised the responses of Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and others to the murder of Henry Nowak, in Southampton, and the Belfast knife attack
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I've stayed on too for much the same reason. And also because I won't be banished from any more spaces. Also because I was there first...
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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
When does Nigel Farage 'speak for the nation'? When it suits him | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When does Nigel Farage 'speak for the nation'? When it suits him | Marina Hyde
Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry Nowak, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Well, you probably shouldn't ignore the universe... ☺️
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Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mine too
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x
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