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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Looking forward to going to Glasgow tomorrow to speak at a conference about the amazing Gabriela Cunninghame Graham - writer, traveller, mystic, socialist.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Had a scary time at the Phoenix Theatre in London watching Ghost Stories and reviewed it for Plays to See playstosee.com/reviews/uk-r...

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

www.instagram.com/p/DPUYx37jLj... A nice review from Lisa Hamer for #choiceofdarkness 'a fascinating read, the research in this book really comes through....I couldn’t put it down, I love reading true crime and although it’s listed as historical fiction it reads more factual than not.'

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Day two of my blog tour for Choice of Darkness - one four star and one five star review so far. #choiceofdarkness www.ebay.co.uk/itm/27731968...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/09/2025

Violent crime with injury is down in every London borough thanks to the collective efforts of the police and London's Violence Reduction Unit. But one death or one crime is one too many - so we’ll keep working with partners and the government to drive down crime and make London safer for everyone.

Graphic with a black textured background and bold yellow and white text. At the top is a white ‘Mayor of London’ lodo and a yellow box that says ‘Update.’ Main text reads: ‘Violent crimes resulting in injury have fallen in every borough in the 12 months ending August 2025 compared to the previous 12 months.’ Small text at the bottom: ‘Source: MPS recorded crime data.’

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Saw Oscar Wilde's rarely-performed 'Vera or The Nihilists' @brocjacktheatre, his only serious play, and I reviewed it for @playstosee, 'a rare chance to see an important piece of theatre history' history.https://playstosee.com/reviews/uk-reviews/london/vera-or-the-nihilists/ #theatre

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A four star review of Choice of Darkness from Lady J Reads www.instagram.com/lady_j_reads/ 'I could almost see Henry slipping from the detective's hands time and time again. Will Frank ever find enough evidence? Will he ever get his redemption?' #choiceofdarkness tinyurl.com/fuzwwwsj

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just days to the official launch of Choice of Darkness with my tour. #choiceofdarknessbook

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just days to the official launch of Choice of Darkness with my tour. #choiceofdarknessbook

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Looking forward to this tonight!

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Tickets still available! Click on the link

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I talk about the decadent poet of love and death Ernest Dowson at Kirkdale bookshop, Sydenham, on Thursday 10, commemorating his 125th anniversary and my biography of him. kirkdalebookshop.com/madder-music...

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Biteback Publishing @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here, @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social shares personal insights into Benn’s humour, values and the enduring relevance of his vision in today’s world 👉 www.bitebackpublishing.com/posts/tony-b...

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter'...I'll be talking about decadent poet Ernest Dowson at Kirkdale Bookshop on Thursday 10, promoting the updated reissue of my biography for the 125th anniversary of his death day. www.ticketsource.co.uk/Kirkdale-Boo... #booksky #decadence #1890s

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SCREW™ @screw.wtf · 29/11/2024

In 1978, Pillsbury Company sued SCREW for $50 MILLION for trademark dilution for comic strips depicting the Pillsbury Doughboy banging the bound-and-gagged Doughgirl, culminating in a yeast infection. We won, and the legal precedent for explicit parody was established. You're welcome, Axel Braun! 😜

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Just under a month to go to the Benn Legacy Conference @uniwestminster 11-13 April. www.thebennlegacy.co.uk The first event is a conversation between Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Melissa Benn on Friday 11 Tickets free but you have to book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jeremy-and... #UKPolitics

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In the West, certainties are under attack with the loss of reproductive rights in the US and the rise of misogynistic influencers and a philosophy of perverted women-hating in incel communities. If Femen are angry, I get it. I just wonder: why isn't everyone else?

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In the Middle East extreme Islamists were weaponising rape and sex slavery and over a short period - four years - this was shown to be not just a shocking aberration produced in war: civil governments in Iran and Afghanistan created societies contemptuous of any notion of womens' rights.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In education, employment, reproductive and legal rights it was a tale of advancement. By the time the paperback came out in 2016 there were signs of reversal, not least the spectacle of grotesque man-babies like Trump, Modi and Putin asserting power.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

When I published Women and the Vote: A World History in 2014 (OUP) it was a tale of progress (with setbacks). At that time the last countries where women had no political power, the Gulf States, were enfranchising women & even Saudi Arabia was accepting women in what local democracy existed there.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Femen and Pussy Riot are the natural inheritors of the outrage with which the suffragettes were greeted - by both conservative society and the staid 'constitutional' suffragists. They have dared to make a feminism which is more public and more defiant than what has gone before.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The problem with it was not so much its existence as the way it was introduced, driving the poorest (like small tradespeople with old, polluting vehicles) out of work. It's a classic example of a good policy badly delivered.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just over a month to go to the Benn Legacy Conference www.thebennlegacy.co.uk 11-13 April There are still places available. £20 for the full conference or £12 per day. The event with Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn & Melissa Benn on Friday evening is free but you have to book #UKPolitics #UKHistory

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Reform was a puffed-up media bubble, like the SDP in the early 80s. As soon as the Falklands War came along, the SDP disappeared from political conversation though it had been vaunted as a supposed third force, taking votes from both sides.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson now on sale, direct from www.jadadams.co.uk/legal-notice or from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836540213.

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Biteback Publishing @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For half a century, Tony Benn was Britain’s leading radical, defying the leadership of the Labour Party and staking out the moral high ground. Updated with a new introduction to mark the centenary of Benn’s birth, @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social explores his continuing legacy in 21st-century Britain.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Trump has made the US an international laughing stock. Well, who could have predicted that?

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Dowson Revived day is at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on Friday 21, starting at Dowson's grave, followed by papers, poems and presentations, and ending with the launch of my newly revised Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson. bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-dowson #poetrysky #biographysky

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2025: Dowson Revived — BADS

Ernest Dowson: Revived

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

'I know, let's just give him the Sudetenland, that'll satisfy him.' #Ukraine

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

'It's good to see a musical which is original and not a version-with-songs of something you have seen on a screen elsewhere.' Saw the vibrant Miss Brexit last night @omnibustheatre.bsky.social and reviewed it for Plays to See. playstosee.com/reviews/uk-r... Four stars. #theatresky

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Miss Brexit | Plays To See

Brexit, game show

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Good to spend some time with Matt Chorley on his excellent @bbc5live.bsky.social afternoon programme, talking about my re-released Tony Benn biography, now out from @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social. Everyone wants to talk about Tony Benn and principled politics, can't think why. #politics

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Dave Comeau @davidajcomeau.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Six years ago Sadiq Khan planned to set up a commission to explore how rent controls might stop the costs of London's private rental market from spiralling. It still hasn't been set up, and Londoners are backing fresh calls to do so. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/cost-of...

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'Every 12 months you're at risk': Londoners back calls for rent controls

The average private renter in London hands over 40 per cent of their wages to their landlord

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Does anyone know if there is an online source for Picture Post? I want the 19 May 1945 issue. #booksky #authorsky

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm old enough to remember the same media doing the same promotional dances around the Social Democrat Party (1981-88) which broke away from Labour & split the left of centre vote. It was said to be a great new force in British politics, taking support from right and left. It wasn't. #BBCRadio4Today

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thanks, I've been trying to find an institutional buyer who will bid for Madame de Viole and keep it in this country. Any ideas?

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What would Tony have made of all this? My biography, fully updated, is re-released for his centenary. www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/tony-b...

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Dowson Revived Day will commemorate 125 years since the decadent poet's death. Goldsmiths, UofLondon, Feb 21, starting at Dowson's grave in Ladywell Cemetery, ending with the launch of my revised version of Madder Music, Stronger Wine, The Life of Ernest Dowson. bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-dowson

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2025: Dowson Revived — BADS

Ernest Dowson: Revived

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

bads.gold.ac.uk

2025: Dowson Revived — BADS

Ernest Dowson: Revived

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump would still have won under PR - he got a majority of the popular vote (as well as the electoral college). Nor does PR secure stability, the Israeli government is dominated by the extremists from minority parties in the cabinet.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This probably wouldn't be the day to ask for our 13 colonies back.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

American writer friends: what would someone from New Hampshire at the end of the C19th call the sort of things that a middle-class family has on the piano or mantelpiece? In England we would say bric-a-brac or knick-knacks. I have doodads in mind but would that be terribly wrong? #writingandbooks

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Three of my books have been used to train AI. Oh, let me put that more plainly: three of my books have been plagiarised by people who have fed my work into machines so they can copy it without crediting me or asking permission.

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Jad Adams @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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