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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a great album cover. The Sighthill Stones being lowered into place. Spinal Tap meets Apocalypse Now.

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Mogwai @mogwai.scot · 30/09/2026

After 30 years of making music, we've been lucky to have some incredible experiences, but this is one we could never have imagined. We're honoured to introduce ‘Underground’, our new track featuring Iggy Pop with vocal arrangement by Matt Sweeney. Listen/watch now @ www.mogwai.scot & all platforms.

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One True Sentence @nico0511.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those with young aspiring writers (family, class) the 2026/7 Junior Orwell Prize has launched www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y... They also need reviewers to provide feedback to entrants and help with long and shortlisting… it’s a fantastic experience

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The Orwell Youth Prize | The Orwell Foundation

“In a world where the young are increasingly taught what to think rather than how to think, we badly need some subversion. And what could be more subversive than George Orwell’s windowpane prose, and ...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 30/09/2026

Ahead of her new album which touches on the fear, power and ecstasy of childbirth, the Norwegian musician explains her fierce interest in a Medieval English anchoress Susanne Sundfør on Julian of Norwich buff.ly/Wuvop99

Colour head and shoulders photograph of Susanne Sundfør, in a raincoat with some tree foliage in the background.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The iconic Dino's on Sauchiehall St. The shock announcement of its closure sparked a petition to save it, but sadly Dino’s on Sauchiehall Street closed on 16th March 2014. #Glasgow #history

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reread the last chapter of The Writing Life tonight & God, the way Rahm’s plane is sky painting & AD’s words are flying, & it feels like they are spinning out of control, tho’ her work is nothing but control, albeit with just enough risk that she could, at any moment, plummet into nothingness.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

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Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're very sad to hear of the death of Peter May, he was a wonderful writer and a generous and gracious presence at the festival over the years. Here he is, at the most recent of six appearances in 2024 - Sending love to Janice and the rest of his family. He will be missed.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most memorable, because it was the most frightening, moment of my journalistic life was being caught in the Garvaghy Road riot after Rosemary Nelson's murder. It was after the ban but when the stand-offs were still happening. Why would anyone let this back into NI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

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Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997

The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The friendly guy in the Mitchell Library cafe just asked me what i'd done to my hair which was nice and observant but maybe a sign that i should go home once in a while ;)

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morning pals. Can someone pass the coffee? Tonight my exhibition previews at the Dick 5-7 - all are welcome! Tomorrow night I’m on in Glasgow with fab @nicolameighan.bsky.social Tickets via @waterstones.bsky.social ❤️ www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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An Evening with Damian Barr | 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 Damian Barr today.

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This shouldn’t make a difference but I am astonished that the person on the dinghy was *a member of the French coastguard* and the UK government response remains “did something happen? we weren’t looking”.

The video then shows him sailing up to the boat, taking out a small knife and starting to slash at the side of the migrant boat.
There were no migrants on board, but there was a French official from the coastguard vessel Abeille Liberté.
As the Frenchman boarded the empty migrant boat mid-Channel Thomas shouted "Right, you are on English territory. This is England. This is not France any more."

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hope you're all alive.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to support Labour for obvious reasons but again and again they make it impossible, playing directly into the hands of extremists. It’s not like there are no precedents for their appeasement. Aren’t they scared of where we are & their part in that ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5yjzj8l5k5o

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But if it did defeat Ukraine, it wouldn't only be the largest army in Europe with the most experience in modern, drone-based warfare - it would also have Ukraine’s cutting-edge drone warfighting expertise to add to its arsenal, as well as Ukraine’s considerable technical and economic resources.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“But the Estonian leader said it’s currently ‘improbable,’ that Putin will launch a conventional military attack on Europe because of the threat of a NATO response and because his forces are tied down in Ukraine.” apnews.com/article/nato...

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Senior NATO commander warns Putin is becoming more cavalier and open to risk as Ukraine war drags on

NATO's deputy commander in Europe is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly reckless as the war in Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never been able to get through a single episode of the 7 Up series without crying. Whatever narrative manipulation MA was attempting, there's something impossibly moving about the combination of fragility & resilience that makes up a life. "After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same."

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is great, a liberating mix of prose and poetry, and prescient too, given the catalyst for Letford’s apocalypse is a sneaky wee radge AI called Andy, which has gone “full Shawshank.”

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Blame the people who hate the small boats. Blame the people who need the small boats as without them whom would they hate? Blame the people who are disappointed by Reform’s small boats tracker cos there are no longer enough small boats to keep their outrage tanks topped up." My bit on Piddington.

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Oh come on, Piddington’s ‘independence’ to stop migrants is a national embarrassment

A GENERATION or so ago, the village of Piddington in Oxfordshire would have been prime Barbara Pym territory: a place of jam and Jerusalem, of…

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orlandolovekill @orlandolovekill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cuppa, sit doon, read...👇

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great writing by Dani Garavelli about the cult of fascist dictator Mussolini in his hometown and resurgent fascism in Italy.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent and worryingly article by @danigaravelli.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My longread on the cult of Mussolini and Italy’s far right for anyone with the time and inclination of a Saturday morning. Last punt - it’s the first biggish piece I’ve had published from Italy.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Regret to say my descent into spiteful self-parody continues with a Louis Wain/Robert Frank tattoo

A tattoo on white skin of a sad grey cat with black stripes and a pink nose and ears, drawing a red heart with a pencil above the words hold still keep going

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/09/2026

‘In front of the sarcophagus, Valentino gave a Roman salute, made the sign of the cross and wrote “Ti voglio bene” (“I love you”) in the visitors’ book.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the neo-Fascist cult of Mussolini: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my top writing tips (which I'm sure one of you gave me) is to have a separate document called "cuts" for the bits that don't quite work, so that you can fool yourself that you're not DELETING them you're simply MOVING them.

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It comes at the same time as another new role - as mum to a baby due imminently 😅 So I'll be getting my feet under the desk for just a short period before taking some time off and then coming back ready to hit the ground running next year. Official contact details to follow but please be in touch!

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 Professional news klaxon: today is my last day as a freelancer before I start as Scotland Correspondent at @theguardian.com next week! So excited to get started covering the whole range of what's happening in Scotland, from politics and social affairs to arts and culture, & everything in between

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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the @lrb.co.uk I write about the photographer Lisette Model, a refugee from fascism who planned to do a book about jazz with Langston Hughes - only to fall victim to McCarthyism. Her jazz photos - now compiled in Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures - are a revelation. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model

‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't have anything novel to say about this, but it makes me so freaking angry. The twisted bitterness of people with no imagination or empathy who want to remake the world in their likeness.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"In front of the sarcophagus, Valentino gave a Roman salute, made the sign of the cross and wrote ‘Ti voglio bene’ (‘I love you’) in the visitors’ book." I visited Predappio on Mussolini's birthday & wrote about it, and the rise of Italy's far right, for the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My Writing Life. ‘Writing is a privilege, but not only for the privileged – it is work and I deserve to be paid properly for it, however lucky I feel to be doing it. Writing is not publishing. Writers are artists, and artists do not need to be tortured.’ www.rlf.org.uk/posts/my-wri...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/09/2026

‘Mussolini transformed his birthplace into a monument to his own myth, broadening its narrow main street into a boulevard punctuated with reminders of his supremacy.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the cult of Mussolini: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A good article, but not a fun article, about the rise in adoration for Italy’s most awful leader.

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graemewsmith.bsky.social @graemewsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From the tacky Fascist souvenir shops to the black-shirted marchers outside Mussolini’s tomb, read this insightful dispatch from the birthplace of Il Duce.

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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh no, not Annie Dillard. She had such an exquisite mind. I, like many I'm sure, return to her book The Writing Life again & again – I teach with it, too. Thinking of what she wrote on that second-to-last page: "What are we here for? Propter chorum, the monks say: for the sake of the choir."

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