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Chris Brookmyre
@brookmyre.bsky.social
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Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
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It’s weird how the news sometimes isn’t news. “Farage the school racist” was in the public domain five years ago, but it just wasn’t getting any traction. (Tweets below from 2020) Sometimes a story just has to wait until its time has come…
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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nasboat.org
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
bubs, i’ve only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me. Four tops.
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
brookmyre.bsky.social
Farage had school friends who went to a different school.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
brookmyre.bsky.social
This thread is glorious.
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Oct 8
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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And with perfect timing, I am off to see Fright Years again next week.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin.

Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten?

It is Profumo on stilts
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
Another contemporary yesterday accused the Reform leader of being a "complete liar". Andy Field, a GP who was two years below Farage at Dulwich, said he had directly witnessed racial abuse from the Reform UK leader. He told BBC Radio Four's World at One he had been contacted on social media by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa'. Others were singled out for being Jewish." Field, who said he did not have political affiliations, added: "T'd see him goose-stepping through the playground and Nazi saluting on many occasions — that was quite a common occurrence. I'd also heard him saying things like Hitler was right and you escaped the gas chamber." In correspondence with The
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
brookmyre.bsky.social
I'm at Waterstones Nottingham tomorrow evening, talking with Marisa Haetzman about Ambrose Parry and Jack Parlabane.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
brookmyre.bsky.social
I am so fucked.
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
brookmyre.bsky.social
I'm venturing south this week, at Waterstones Nottingham on Thursday then in London for the St Andrew's Book Festival Saturday. Come and hear me and Marisa chatting about the latest Ambrose Parry novel and the next Jack Parlabane outing.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
brookmyre.bsky.social
I'm heading to Waterstones Nottingham Thursday. Come along and hear Marisa and me discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening.
www.waterstones.com/.../an-eveni...
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
brookmyre.bsky.social
Nottingham - home to fans of crime since the Twelfth Century. Come along and hear us discuss Victorian murders and modern-day misdeeds as we discuss Ambrose Parry and the forthcoming Quite Ugly One Evening at Waterstones on Thursday.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
brookmyre.bsky.social
I'm heading to Nottingham this Thursday for an event at Waterstones, chatting to Marisa Haetzman about the latest Ambrose Parry novel, The Death of Shame, and maybe offering a preview of the new Parlabane.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
brookmyre.bsky.social
Grok says no-one knows more about 19th Century Edinburgh medicine than Elon Musk, but you can put that to the test next Saturday, as we're heading to London for the St Andrew's Book Festival:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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stevenbailey.bsky.social
When I arrive at the party
A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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dougjohnstone.bsky.social
Just a cheeky wee reminder about this event TONIGHT in Motherwell Library as part of Book Week Scotland. Come and ask awkward questions, I dare you. Free, but book a place here: librariesnl.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
brookmyre.bsky.social
Less than two weeks until Marisa and I are at the St Andrew's Book Festival in London. Come and hear us chat to Denise Mina and Allan Gaw about the Ambrose Parry novels so far and what might come next.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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This alone would be worth a year's licence fee.
athenakugblenu.bsky.social Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 26d
the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM