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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I had this to my face from another writer in a festival green room…

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Very sad to hear of the death of Dame Jenni Murray. She was great company back in 2015 at the @EmiratesLitFest in Dubai. @philipardagh.bsky.social @gumdraw.bsky.social @stevecolewriter.bsky.social

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Please tell Kiran from me that Stinkbomb owns a pair of shorts EXACTLY that colour, and that he looks utterly fantastic. Wowsers my trousers!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 27/02/2026

I was talking to a book designer on our team yesterday and was able to put to words: “We expect the illustrator to be excellent at making art but they are not expected to be excellent at making books. It’s our job to be excellent at making books, inside and out. The book itself, that is our domain.”

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

THIS SUNDAY, The Sunday Times has brought back The Funday Times as part of their reading campaign and The Phoenix is involved! The Funday Times was a weekly comic supplement, all big and newspapery, an absolute joy to read and an instrumental part of a lot of our childhoods 🤩

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

See also: If you don't like the changes I've made to this party, you know where the door is.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people! Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS! Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life. Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them. 🙄

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The press has got hold of it! Yes we’re making a #bbcghosts movie.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Comps for @philipreeve.bsky.social’s new Mortal Engines novel ‘Bridge of Storms’ have arrived. Out on the 12th, get your preorders in now!

‘Bridge of Storms’ book by Philip Reeve, cover illustration by Ian McQue

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/02/2026

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

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Dave Ostow @daveostowdraws.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Everything is nice and normal

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ME: whenever i make fried eggs the yolks break but when i make scrambled eggs they don’t ALANIS MORISSETTE: i’m sorry but the lyrics are already done

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I will never understand how Trump was legally able to run in 2024 after trying to strong arm governors to defraud voters, and then, when that didn’t work, a violent coup. We let a traitor re-enter the White House.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yet another example of the idiocy of the Supreme Court’s immunity opinion: If Trump invades Greenland, even for the most insane reason (like not winning the Nobel Peace Prize) and against our obvious national interest, it’s an “official act” that can never be held legally accountable

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Don’t know why I found myself thinking of you this afternoon, GP!

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Nearly showtime! Very much looking forward to this.

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Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop

UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.

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Irish Hospice Foundation @irishhospice.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📚 Continuing this year’s BCAW focus on books, we’re sharing a message from author John Dougherty. 💛 His book, A Hare-Shaped Hole, beautifully explores emotional expression and continuing bonds for bereaved children. 👉 More reads: childhoodbereavement.ie/bookshelf #ChildrenGrieveToo #BCAW2025

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’m hearing from a charity that’s reluctant to support an anti-racism event because it’s too “political”. I’m explaining to them that opposing racism wasn’t at all “political” until very recently. Also (1) everything is political but (2) it doesn’t need to be party political. Charity IS Politics.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 16/11/2025

I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15/11/2025

If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In 1997 Labour won a huge victory. And while campaigning they promised to honour Tory spending pledges for 2 years. Bizarrely they seemed to think the former was in any way based on the latter or that any of us expected them to stick to that, having voted for change. Plus ça change.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Bit harsh. He speaks very highly of you.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Legally, I mean. Importing explosives was banned. Can’t imagine why…

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Ha! But, no - what I mean is, nobody could buy fireworks, privately or professionally, when I was growing up in NI.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wasn’t like that when I was growing up! I was at secondary school before I even saw a fireworks display.

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Not quite the same thing, but my daughter & I will sing absolutely anything that fits UB40’s Ivory Madonna (just that line), and follow it up with the ‘ba-ba-dah!’ Started with brontosaurus earrings. Have definitely done foodstuffs.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The screeching handbrake turn from Everyone Left Of Norman Tebbit Is A Fragile Snowflake to Don’t Go Outside, It’s Full Of Blacks And Crime has to be seen to be fully believed

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

‘AI gets them going and writes the first paragraph, or first chapter.’ There’s something deeply sad about somebody in his position misunderstanding writing so badly. Making that start, overcoming those challenges? These are what MAKE you a professional writer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief

Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Stephen is so consistently funny, but this is especially strong 👇😆

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Surely that means you should bring your *actual toilet* into B&Q…?

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John Dougherty @johndougherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Oooh, they do get into scrapes and japes, those lads.

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