William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026More nonsense from me in The Fence, as well as new fiction by William Boyd if you are interested in that sort of thing 022
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Found a slug hidden in the garnish. Determined not to make a scene, I put it on the side of my plate. Unfortunately the plate was extremely hot, and the slug proceeded to cook, releasing a thin dribble of slug gravy. I had to build a retaining dam out of pommes puree to protect my roast duck 041
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Basically all micronations postdate passport to Pimlico. There's a good case that the entire phenomenon is the result of one financially unsuccessful film. 020
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Chandos is a very apposite choice. It's not good and nobody really likes it, but it also could be a lot worse given the circumstances. 011
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Whatever your opinion of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, please remember what's really important: making sure everyone knows you have read the original 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I used to see these things around Bermondsey, and I would fantasize about trapping one by covering a pit with leaves, cracking it open with primitive stone tools, and feasting on the curry in its guts 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026*Sniffs top of shower gel bottle* "Oh yeah. That's really good sauce" 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I think the only fair exchange is that we let the Greeks make a movie about the Founding Fathers, filmed in Greece with an all Greek cast, and also George Washington wears doublet and hose, and drives a steam train around, and the British Army all wear pith helmets. 110
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A state of the nation tale: a publisher won't accept my slim volume of verse about parsnips 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It's striking how much more fun this list is than the guardian one. Romance, horror, adventure. 010
Reposted by William ClarkeSal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Me doing 'how many of these 100 novels have you read' things in the papers 421044
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 10/05/2026"A typical clown of the Western 'buffoon' tradition" sounds like something Chinese netizens would call Joe Biden 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I don't think there's a better feeling than finally fixing a slow draining kitchen sink. I stood for two full minutes watching in wonder the water run down. 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The only criticism I have of the opening segment of Master of the Senate is that Caro takes at face value the founder's claim that the Senate was based on classical Republics, when it was transparently a way to shoehorn a House of Lords into a supposedly egalitarian constitution 030
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Bring these things back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupharen.wikipedia.orgKuphar - Wikipedia 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 07/03/2026So much lit crit is still in thrall to a moralistic 20thc orthodoxy that short words and simple sentences are somehow more "serious"; florid writing isn't inherently a fault, just a different taste and personally I prefer my food rich, my cities ancient, and my prose Byzantine. 3365
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Anthony Trollope never mentions a Georgian house without commenting on how ugly buildings from that era are. It's so interesting because for modern readers the stately homes are part of the romance, but to Trollope the characters are squabbling over the equivalent of Chigwell mcmansions. 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I would like to see the little mushroom men 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Glad to see someone is still fighting the good fight on Lavender Hill, which is not, never has been, and never will be in Clapham 010
Reposted by William ClarkeMark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Train journey to town with the beloved to go see The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and onto drinks party with auld pals means 2 hours with @thefence.bsky.social and the joy of a @williamasclarke.bsky.social quiz 052
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025If I can give you only one piece of advice, I would say don't leave a tube of hydrocortisone cream on your desk right next to a tube of superglue 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I'm a frozen turkey truther. These fires are all caused by too much oil, which is being displaced and spilling onto the open flame. They would ignite whether or not the turkey was frozen! 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Racehorses used to be beloved celebrities. Secretariat, Red Rum, Shergar. Sadly, young people these days are more interested in twitch streamers than the athletic achievements of a massive terrified mammal with exercise-induced rhabdomyolysis. 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Interesting subgenre: photos of soda jerks where they look like the Devil in a Twilight Zone episode about a man selling his soul for an ice cream sundae 030
Reposted by William ClarkeThe Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Issue 26 is here 📸 With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more www.the-fence.com/shop/ 195
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2025This is better than nothing, but the older I get the more I realise that drinking after midnight is a fools game. What we need instead is for pubs to open earlier. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comPubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growthExclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Good take. Just answer the phone. It could be something interesting. 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Apologies for being a joyless intellectual snob, but what these discussions reveal is that most people think about food, and especially the food of foreign countries and cultures, in an incredibly shallow way. 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Thank goodness my dishwasher beeps when it's done. I hate to think what would happen if I didn't remember, and left my clean dishes in it overnight. 100
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I hope whoever replaces Bragg on In Our Time focuses on what really made the programme great. Yelling at nerds. 000
Reposted by William ClarkeAlex Christian @alexschristian.com · 28/08/2025Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag! 021
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I'm noticing a lot of performative men ostentatiously reading Sorrows of Young Werther, dressing in blue frock coats and yellow trousers, and shooting themselves with pistols borrowed from their love-rivals 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025R/moths is generally a pretty laid back subreddit, but every so often someone posts a picture of a spotted lanternfly, and all hell breaks loose 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I'm as anti-AI as they come, but I do think this sort of thing can best be explained by the fact that, almost by definition, a small portion of the population is always going to be making very strange choices. 110
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2025My copy arrived today, and I must say it's already drinking very well 031
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2025There's an absolute glut of early sloes this year, and I can't find a recipe to make them into booze because Kier Starmer's firewall blocks the winemaking subreddit 100
Reposted by William ClarkeThe Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The Pub Is Finally Open! With writing from @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @anakinsella.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social, John Banville and @vizcomic.bsky.social. Available at all bookstores & the link below 🍺 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310... 1198
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I would like a restaurant that only sells elaborate aspics. A hushed, cool, dimly lit, dining room. Solemn, sacerdotal waiters. Every dish comes suspended in a block of pellucid jelly. 010
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 02/07/2025In conclusion, Zambia is a land of contrasts 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Nobody travels to China disguised as a Nestorian monk on a mission to steal silkworms for the Byzantine Emperor any more. 020
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It's incredibly perverse that Dorothy L Sayers wrote 11 Lord Peter Wimsey novels that contain not a hint of the supernatural until the last chapter of the last book, in which it is established that ghosts exist, and have regularly been seen by title character. 100
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I always found Beadle a compelling and sinister figure. I was delighted to learn about his arcane library, scattered and ransacked like the Mortlake collection of John Dee. 131
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025My colleague in Australia is off sick because he was bitten by a poisonous spider. Ridiculous country. It must be like living in a platform game. 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Queen Anne was a 17th century monarch, and I won't be discussing this further. 000
William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If I ran a restaurant I would only take reservation by phone. Not because of bots, I just think you would get a better class of customer that way. 100
