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John Fullerton

@fictionarrative.bsky.social
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Thriller writer. Latest, Oceans Deep, due May 25, 2027. Book news can be found on my website johnfullerton.org and most of my novels can be found here: www.amazon.com/author/jfullerton #writingcommunity #author

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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 13h
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Vijay Prashad:America Just Left Iraq. The Gulf Is Already Shopping for a New Protector
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Loubielou32 @loubielou32.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not how civilised countries behave. And you pro life cu*ts can go to hell if this is what you think a child’s life should be like after they are born. You aren’t pro life, you’re anti women, anti choice and supporting a government of paedophiles, abusers and racists. Shane on you all.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 19h
The Russians are coming www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tom Stevenson · The Russians are coming
War-fi accounts accurately depict the frontier between Europe and Russia as being in an unstable equilibrium. But they...
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s not just the UK. Read this shocking report from The Lever into US, Dutch, Italian and Indian communities where people are sick, farms wrecked, dying young from forever chemicals the producers have known were lethal for decades. We can *never* trust business. www.levernews.com/the-global-s...
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How Chemours Moves Toxic PFAS Waste Around The World
A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10 years after. FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72 people.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Naza
When NAZA premiered at Venice earlier this month, it sent shockwaves across the globe. Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, NAZA is a haunting exposé…
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claims www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-raf...
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How RAF Fairford 'bomb plot' narrative fell apart as US and UK made competing claims
The five men arrested were released on bail but Trump said 'we had them under view for a long time'
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What does it say about Americans that this vile creature is still there? chrishedges.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tech bros don't like democracy, especially when that democracy has tried to hold them to account, as Brazil has
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Garvaghy Road and the Celtic Alliance bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/28/t...
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The Garvaghy Road and the Celtic Alliance
Two weeks ago, the leaders of Scotland, Ireland and Wales met in Cardiff to sign an accord and announce a ‘Celtic Alliance’ [If You’re Feeling Sinister – Bella Caledonia]. Today, 200 po…
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AB Fab www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHEN an official from the UK’s grid operator appeared at Holyrood’s energy committee last week, he quietly revealed that Scotland may have more AI data centres on the books than previously understood. www.thenational.scot/news/2658362...
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Inside Scotland’s hidden pipeline of ‘phantom’ hyperscale data centres
WHEN an official from the UK’s grid operator appeared at Holyrood’s energy committee last week, he quietly revealed that Scotland may have more…
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 26/09/2026
A New York City bill would strike a huge blow to Amazon’s outsourcing model. The battle is already spreading to other cities.
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Mamdani's Showdown With Amazon Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences
A New York City bill would strike a huge blow to Amazon’s outsourcing model. The battle is already spreading to other cities.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/09/2026
Hamas accuses Board of Peace of aligning with Israel after excluding UN agency for Palestinians from Gaza operations.
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Hamas slams Board of Peace for refusal to work with UNRWA in Gaza
Hamas accuses Board of Peace of aligning with Israel after excluding UN agency for Palestinians from Gaza operations.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Keeping up with the Kims www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Keeping up with the Kims
For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Modest and Misunderstood www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I'm an anti-Zionist' www.middleeasteye.net/news/green-p...
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I'm an anti-Zionist'
'We cannot hold Jewish people responsible for what happens in Israel,' Polanski tells a hustings for Holborn and St Pancras by-election
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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GRU Versus SVR Differences in Russian Espionage
GRU versus SVR differences reveal how Russia divides military intelligence, foreign espionage and influence operations - and where their roles overlap.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Britain ‘Complicit’ in Trump’s Yemen Massacre
Children and paramedics were among at least 80 civilians killed in the incident, Iona Craig reports. By Iona Craig Declassified UK Royal Air Force (RAF) refuelling planes supported U.S. strikes on...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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From October 7 to the ICJ: Why Won’t the West Enforce the Law on Israel? | David Hearst Podcast
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Loubielou32 @loubielou32.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agreed. #BastardTrump has no authority to determine what happens to our country and its lands. He seems to be under the impression that he has a divine right to oversee every country in the world - somebody needs to tell him to sort his own house out first. The US is in a dire situation.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An Act of Monumental Cultural and Educational Vandalism bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/21/a...
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An Act of Monumental Cultural and Educational Vandalism
“There is a loss of any vestiges that the University of Edinburgh conceives of itself as primarily a Scottish institution.” – Alec Finlay. You could argue that this process began …
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UK to be world leader in closing stable doors after horse has bolted (unless it finally investigates Russian influence and funding on Brexit and Brexit parties, and kicks Palantir/tech bros out of govt) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham says
The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Diary 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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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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A Guide to Espionage Book Series Worth Reading
A guide to espionage book series for readers seeking credible tradecraft, political pressure and compromised loyalties, from classic masters to fresh voices.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The staggering cruelty of the Trump regime: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The End of Rojava: Kurds in Northeast Syria Face an Uncertain Future Amid Integration With Damascus
Despite the formal dissolution of the SDF and the Kurdish-led autonomous zone, northeast Syria remains in a liminal state—not fully Syria, but not entirely separate, either.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lots of looking for in-fighting by the BBC, not a lot of coverage of actual policy. Clearly, only Reform get the easy coverage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lib Dems sleepwalking to irrelevance under Davey, says council leader
Devon County Council leader Julian Brazil tells the BBC Ed Davey is not the right person to lead the party.
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aiformal sagebiel @sagebiel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.threads.com/share/BAaJbM... come more often . @charles-ex.bsky.social @ginger146.bsky.social
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Martin Koschmall (@martygraphy) on Threads
German here 🇩🇪: once Trump is gone, people - no matter if Maga or reasonable - will think, global relations will go back to normal in an instant. Be prepared: they won‘t. International politics works ...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ranks of Humanity www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Meaney · Ranks of Humanity: West of where?
The West can play at being universal, seeing itself as the only ‘civilisation’ and basing itself on metrics of...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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GRU Spies Explained for Serious Thriller Readers
GRU spies explained: how Russia’s covert intelligence service recruits, operates and influences events, and why its methods matter to thriller readers.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Labour’s savage disability benefit cuts could hit older people hardest, despite their reduced chances of finding work - a third of those potentially affected are aged 50+, according to FOI data Older disabled people face both labour market ableism and ageism By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group facing some of the highest barriers to finding work
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Am I the only one who thinks Mark Zuckerberg is boring, and this article about him even more so? colossus.com/article/mark...
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Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It would help if broadcasters like the BBC gave proportionate coverage instead of focusing on the party it deems most aligned with its own senior management www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Not just 'Nice Guy Eddie': Lib Dems eager for leader to show radical side at party conference
There is a sizeable group of Lib Dem MPs who openly question whether the party's problem is with its leader, while others support his stance.
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Matthew Wilcoxson @akademy.uk · 18/09/2026
Now people will die in the water. British and foreign alike. Because of Reform, Farage, and his far right, wretches.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The revolving door is the death of democracy
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Too hard to swallow, or realistic? spectator.com/article/zele...
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Zelensky’s strategy is national suicide
Waging a war of attrition is national suicide, not valor. Yet this is the strategy that the Zelensky government pursues
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dependency or sovereignty? www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
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UK’s armed forces can keep control of their AI kill switch – here’s how
The US offers the most advanced defence technology at the expense of sovereignty. Yet Britain can develop AI and other hi-tech capabilities without sacrificing autonomy or its transatlantic alliance, ...
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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The question underlying trade and investment with China: Is it a threat?
The Thinker | No.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I like A Foreign Country, good book. Day of the Jackal too. Have you read Gavin Lyall, Midnight plus one? www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
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Midnight Plus One
With an industrial empire at stake, one of the best of …
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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10 Realistic Manhunt Thriller Books to Read
A guide to realistic manhunt thriller books, from patient surveillance to compromised identities, where tradecraft, politics and pressure feel credible.
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing it
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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How Leonora Carrington can change your life | The Observer
The surrealist artist and writer was unfettered by convention. Even after a brief encounter, her work lingers in your consciousness
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John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just wanted to touch it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Liam Shaw · I just wanted to touch it: To Catch a Panda
Pandas have good PR, but they’re not as cuddly as people think. They have powerful teeth that can chew things a lot...
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