Adam Macqueen
@adammacqueen.bsky.social
Author, Private Eye hack and Page 94 podcaster. Third 🏳️🌈Tommy Wildeblood thriller, The Inalienable Right, is out now: http://bit.ly/3EugugB
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🧵 It’s 🏳️🌈LGBT+ History month in the UK 🏳️🌈. So let me take you back to a time when life for gay people in this country was very different indeed.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between "direct" and "indirect" racist abuse, and why is one better than the other?
NEW: Asked about allegations of racist abuse when he was at school, Farage reiterates his denials. He says Peter Ettedgui, who has spoken to the Guardian and the BBC is "the one person who said I directly abused him". He claims political bias in other allegations.
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between "direct" and "indirect" racist abuse, and why is one better than the other?
My phone just decided to treat me to a "memories" photo album entitled Cuddles and Purrs which featured not only my dead mum but no fewer than three of my dead pets set to delightfully cheery music. Cheers mate!
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My phone just decided to treat me to a "memories" photo album entitled Cuddles and Purrs which featured not only my dead mum but no fewer than three of my dead pets set to delightfully cheery music. Cheers mate!
👇. The number of times I've had to patiently explain that they are *all* my "real" brothers...
Can people PLEASE use terms other than "real" parent when discussing adoption around children. Think about how this sounds to adopted kids, many of whom have experienced trauma, loss, neglect, rejection and worse. "Birth/biological" parent is more sensitive, or "tummy mummy" if they're very young.
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
👇. The number of times I've had to patiently explain that they are *all* my "real" brothers...
Only a few hours to go before we can start endlessly speculating about what will be in next year's budget, folks!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Only a few hours to go before we can start endlessly speculating about what will be in next year's budget, folks!!
And it was the BEST THING that had happened ANYWHERE, EVER.
On this day in 1983, The Five Doctors was originally broadcast in the U.K. (as part of Children in Need night). The Five Doctors had already debuted two days earlier in America.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
And it was the BEST THING that had happened ANYWHERE, EVER.
Just looked at my diary to try to schedule a couple of things and I realise I've run out of year. Which is weird, because I'm pretty sure it's still about April.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Just looked at my diary to try to schedule a couple of things and I realise I've run out of year. Which is weird, because I'm pretty sure it's still about April.
Reposted by Adam Macqueen
Reposted by Adam Macqueen
Get the fear this Christmas:
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bit.ly/3UfwMPC
December 5, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Get the fear this Christmas:
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bit.ly/3UfwMPC
Reposted by Adam Macqueen
"A suitably atmospheric addition to the spooky stories canon" - The Observer. "The perfect Christmas present for everyone you know" - me.
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bit.ly/3UfwMPC
December 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM
"A suitably atmospheric addition to the spooky stories canon" - The Observer. "The perfect Christmas present for everyone you know" - me.
bit.ly/3UfwMPC
bit.ly/3UfwMPC
The absolute worst remake was when the Americans turned Penda's Fen into Dawson's Creek.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The absolute worst remake was when the Americans turned Penda's Fen into Dawson's Creek.
"Well, there's the Street of Shame pages done" I cheerily said to Ian at 5 o'clock last night. "I expect we'll have to rip them up and start again on Monday as usual".
Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Well, there's the Street of Shame pages done" I cheerily said to Ian at 5 o'clock last night. "I expect we'll have to rip them up and start again on Monday as usual".
Ah, Telegraph editorials...
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ah, Telegraph editorials...
Quite frankly overexcited to be able to tell you the sequel to my short story collection Haunted Tales, a full-length ghost story called Hobbe's Folly, is to be published by @swiftpress.bsky.social very soon.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Quite frankly overexcited to be able to tell you the sequel to my short story collection Haunted Tales, a full-length ghost story called Hobbe's Folly, is to be published by @swiftpress.bsky.social very soon.
By the miracles of modern technology, you can now watch, as well as listen, to the podcast whose AI transcript very unfairly described me as “the massive florid legal expert” when I tried to explain how libel trials work in a particular US state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
Trump Shakes Down The BBC
YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
By the miracles of modern technology, you can now watch, as well as listen, to the podcast whose AI transcript very unfairly described me as “the massive florid legal expert” when I tried to explain how libel trials work in a particular US state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1QE...
And good morning to you, the Telegraph.
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
And good morning to you, the Telegraph.
That's because I came along that March and FUCKED EVERYTHING UP. You're welcome.
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
That's because I came along that March and FUCKED EVERYTHING UP. You're welcome.
Can I just say I'm glad they don't?
Sir Peter Riddell, the former Commissioner for Public Appointments, speaking about standards in public life just now:
"I had a rule...If something [I did] appeared in Private Eye, could I defend it?"
If ministers adopted the "Private Eye principle, they might have avoided a few problems."
"I had a rule...If something [I did] appeared in Private Eye, could I defend it?"
If ministers adopted the "Private Eye principle, they might have avoided a few problems."
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can I just say I'm glad they don't?
You already have a continuity where Judi Dench didn't notice when he got a new head, and then no one in Mi6 went "Blofeld? What, like that bloke we were always battling in the old days, all five of him?"
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You already have a continuity where Judi Dench didn't notice when he got a new head, and then no one in Mi6 went "Blofeld? What, like that bloke we were always battling in the old days, all five of him?"
Have just had thousand island dressing for the first time since (I think) the Pizza Hut salad bar in the 90s. Mind blown. From now on intend to only eat anything if it is covered in thousand island dressing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Have just had thousand island dressing for the first time since (I think) the Pizza Hut salad bar in the 90s. Mind blown. From now on intend to only eat anything if it is covered in thousand island dressing.
Just checked in on the news for the first time in days, and I appear to have chosen an interesting edition of Private Eye to take off on holiday...
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just checked in on the news for the first time in days, and I appear to have chosen an interesting edition of Private Eye to take off on holiday...
When Jackdaws are in polite company they introduce themselves as Johndaws.
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When Jackdaws are in polite company they introduce themselves as Johndaws.
I've just uploaded an exclusive ghost story for Halloween on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQe7xeY...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQe7xeY...
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I've just uploaded an exclusive ghost story for Halloween on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQe7xeY...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQe7xeY...
Amazing offer. Reading along with David's live illustration was the best experience, and he somehow got exactly what was in my head.
NEW!
Haunted Tales by @adammacqueen.bsky.social (Paperback) + Exclusive mini-print by me.
Available for the first time is a mini-print of the artwork that was created in front of a crowd as Adam did a Jam bookshop reading event.
www.jambookshop.co.uk
Haunted Tales by @adammacqueen.bsky.social (Paperback) + Exclusive mini-print by me.
Available for the first time is a mini-print of the artwork that was created in front of a crowd as Adam did a Jam bookshop reading event.
www.jambookshop.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Amazing offer. Reading along with David's live illustration was the best experience, and he somehow got exactly what was in my head.