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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 12h

URGENT! Please sign the @ukchange.bsky.social petition and save the marvellous Hackney Mosaic Project! c.org/byRtJL7RWh

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quiz time: match the Holborn & St Pancras candidates to their parties or, in the case of the independent, core policy. #byelection

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Andy worked with the Stranglers, Dave Greenfield routinely turned up at our flat with a pet rat. Last night I dreamt Dave had hidden one of his rats in my rucksack. And I inadvertently smuggled it on to a plane. The brain is a strange thing. Or maybe just my brain.

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Hugh Cornwell Sings The Stranglers' Golden Brown

ALT: Hugh Cornwell Sings The Stranglers' Golden Brown

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Doing my thing today. Many thanks to the lovely organisers and volunteers and to Steven Gale for excellent conversation about Divide and Rule: Royal Women and Their Battles. Also to the audience for great questions. #royalwomen #feministhistory #cuckfieldbookfestival

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A day of many colours. First a splash of red, a quick stop at the Covid Memorial Wall, created by @ledbydonkeys.org with Covid Bereaved Families, to say hello to my love. Then on to the yellow of a Republic event where #ledbydonkeys cofounder Olly Knowles spoke before me

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh ffs. Wonderwall is such a dreary, predictable song. Surely there must be better comparisons?

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well. A prime minister who can deliver a speech you want to believe. New local councillors with energy and vision for my borough. I seem to have woken up in parallel universe. PM and councillors are from different parties. Roll on electoral reform.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Delighted that my poem Waltz has made it onto the shortlist for the Regeneration competition and can’t wait to read the other shortlisted poems.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The King’s room has a bathtub, unlike others in the guest house. I availed - fully clothed

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 28/09/2026

Oh THAT’S where you were! 🤣

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How ill timed was my trip to Transylvania last week? Whenever I checked my phone, there would be emails and DMs asking me to apply my unique insights into Diana’s misuse and abuse by men and patriarchal structures to Charles Spencer’s Swan Song 🧵

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went to a joyous wedding anniversary party on my own less than joyous wedding anniversary. A lovely artist called Lakshmi was offering guests temporary glitter tattoos so I asked that she write Andy’s name. So far so obvious but…

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Missing you on our wedding anniversary and every day. But given a choice between this pain and the extraordinary good fortune of three decades with you, I choose you every time. Love wherever you are. #happyweddinganniversary #lovelydead

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you’re in a remote village in Transylvania, at a guest house owned by King Charles, and you notice that the headboard on your bed is shaped like bat wings. And you’re still mourning Tim Curry. #lipsync #rockyhorrorshow #Zalánpatak #zalanguesthouse

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh look @renardpress.com. After all those discussions with bookshops about whether to shelve TIME/LIFE as literary fiction or sci-fi, there’s a specific subgenre that fits my book *perfectly*

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A response on Insta to my earlier post about the Charleses and Diana. Tempted to ask where feminism does belong...

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The King is prone to outbursts. Remember his temper over pens during his accession? That he and Earl Spencer clashed after Diana’s death is not in doubt. What was said and whether either man meant it in the moment is another matter. And neither had an easy relationship with Diana. 🧵

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Too busy to breathe, too busy until this moment to post this piece from @bookbrunch.bsky.social that gives more details on Primadonna Festival’s future including our partnership with @renardpress.com on a new publishing imprint, Primadonna Publishing. #primadonnaprize #primadonnapublishing

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You’re going to hear a lot of stories over the next week about Princess Diana’s terrible mistreatment by the patrimonarchy. The press covering the allegations in her brother Earl Spencer’s memoir may not be quite so forthcoming about the media’s own role in tormenting her 🧵

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I only knew Bonnie Greer from sharing TV sofas and festival panels with her, and that could be hard to do - because she always had such an interesting take that I wanted to listen rather than speak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77

Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The hound of love is calling. I am always happy when this one visits the studio. #houndsoflove

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“A letter sent by the company’s board to its agents in Buenos Aires instructed them to brand enslaved people with hot metal. The brand bore a crown… A doctor warned against the branding, but the board… instructed the agents to proceed” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Find someone to look at you like I looked at Robert Hardman yesterday after a thoroughly enjoyable discussion and book signing at the lovely Chiswick Book Festival.

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James Harvey @ourenglishdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagining Queenie listening to the intro to Anthrax, eyes wide, jaw dropped.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Time machine: 30 March 2009, on the way to a state banquet as the guest of Elizabeth II, who would benefit later that evening from my husband Gang of Four founder Andy Gill’s explanation of the beauties of guitar feedback.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me on the BBC talking about unhinged coverage of Meghan. This Saturday I’ll be in a longer discussion at the Chiswick book festival about the misrepresentation of royal women as villains or perfect saints and how that damages not only all women but democracy www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

READ ALL ABOUT IT - DAYLIGHT ROBBERY! If media treats its own this way, no wonder so many outlets dehumanise their subjects. Demand better. Good journalism is needed more than ever. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/09/2026

Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How to set about creating the world as it should be? Well, a first step is to imagine that world. That’s why I am delighted to announce the return of the Primadonna Prize and the creation of a brand-new publishing imprint, Primadonna Publishing. 🧵

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine writing this piece. Imagine watching Reform leaders not only shrug off delegates beating up protestors but say these women brought it on themselves and then writing this piece.

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David Axelbank @davidaxelbank.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He’s in fantastic company with those other greats. He deserves all that praise, because he made the world a richer place.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is all true about Andy. But did you know that he attempted to explain the beauty of guitar feedback to Elizabeth II? www.classical-music.com/rock/guitari...

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A panel about battles royal. I mean, what will we talk about? There’s so little royal news. Bwhahahaha. www.ticketsource.com/chiswickbook...

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blackshirts marching. Peaceful protestors beaten. Corruption scandals brushed aside. Vulnerable communities demonised. Eugenicists platformed. And we still quibble over whether to use the word fascism? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest

Protesters, all dressed in black and with their faces covered, are heard chanting "stop the boats".

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thrilled to see my pome on the longlist

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So At Home He’s a Tourist is currently the 46th most Shazammed track in the UK. Odd because it hasn’t been synced recently. Hotspots for listening are Sheffield, Northampton and Cambridge. Can anyone solve this mystery? I mean, it is a BRILLIANT track, but… Hmmm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-9...

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Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods" (Live on Rockpalast, 1983) [21/21]

YouTube video by Isak Borg

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“It wasn’t words that killed the princess,” protested Carole Malone inelegantly and less than accurately after the Paris car crash 29 years ago. Here is my final excerpt from Divide and Rule and as you see, I was almost too angry to read it. Here’s why 🧵

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studpuppet.bsky.social @studpuppet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This was literally in the post above yours on my timeline.

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Female columnists are often used this way by editors, as if misogyny voiced by women were legitimate.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Kara Swisher calls @Google @googlemaps @googleearth “NOODLE SPINED” “UNCTUOUS QUISLINGS” who “SOIL THEMSELVES” 🔥

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh Diana! 29 years tomorrow since the death of the princess, nearly three decades in which women in public life, including her daughters-in-law, continue to be remorselessly & recklessly chased, anatomised and cartoonified by the media only and inevitably to be accused of orchestrating the attention

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This Monday, 31 August 2026, marks a bleak milestone: 29 years since Princess Diana died. Many people and institutions are still in denial about the forces that placed her in the back of that speeding car. 🧵

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Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does this mean Andy Burnham is the Meghan Markle of British politics @telegraph.co.uk? I’m confused.

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