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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like, in my childhood, men and boys used to spit in the street more than they do now.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 8d

I feel no need for anonymity. There is no greater issue facing the world today. Stamp. It. Out.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 9d

I've heard this. I just worry it's going to be full of drunk people taking a punt.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 9d

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is so commercial now. Accommodation, flyering and PR costs are insane. And yet, if you want to be seen by producers, you have to go. And now, people like me, who’ve been doing it for years can’t sell tickets because big acts are turning up.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 10d

Haha. So close.

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Bobbins.bsky.social @bobbinsu.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely loved this, it resonated on so many levels.

Although I think I was a bit more snobbish about my precious Oasis suddenly being loved by the jocks who had despised nerdy Indie kid Bobbins as much as I despised them.

Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 10d

I went to watch Oasis last night and now I've written about it... ferguscraig.substack.com/p/in-defence...

In defence of Oasis

Last night, in sharia London, like some kind of basic bitch, I joined 80,000 other people in watching Oasis at Wembley.

ferguscraig.substack.com

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 10d

I went to watch Oasis last night and now I've written about it... ferguscraig.substack.com/p/in-defence...

In defence of Oasis

Last night, in sharia London, like some kind of basic bitch, I joined 80,000 other people in watching Oasis at Wembley.

ferguscraig.substack.com

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 11d

Wordle's running out of words.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 19d

I honestly think I induced myself into a sort of breakdown when I was writing that section.

Kirstie @queenbakee.bsky.social · 19d

Made the mistake of listening to the New York chapters of Once Upon a Crime by @ferguscraig.bsky.social on a train. Laughing like a loon.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you. Sorry, I'm not in that habit. It's the back of my son's jumper with the words 'be happy in the moment and appreciate the little things'.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 25d

I asked my son what he thought ‘appreciate the little things’ meant and he said ‘don’t be mean to people who are smaller than you’.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 25d

I knew the deep state would find something to distract us.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 29d

This is one of the all time nights for people posting stupid shit on the internet.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 9

Split the script fee two ways and we could be millionaires!

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 9

Going to take this question seriously. In all honesty, I think he would have seen past the stuttering sob story and appreciated Gates for his earthy truth. A life in the theatre would, I think, have made him reject Young's more theatrical style.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 9

Probably watched the Gareth Gates v Will Young Pop Idol final.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 9

Amazing. So glad its gone to a good home.

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DK @dk1974.bsky.social · Sep 9

@ferguscraig.bsky.social - my friend Ash isn’t on Bluesky but asked me to pass on the message that the Dyson she won works brilliantly and “It's everything that the VAX wishes it could be”. Thanks again! And what a night, indeed!

A photo of a young woman on the street, looking delighted to have won a Dyson from Martin Fishback

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you for the lovely response to this piece. Fair to say, I was nervous about putting it all out into the world. If you'd like to read my fictional murder, you can preorder my next novel from wherever you get your books now... www.waterstones.com/book/everyon...

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Sep 8

Quite the read...

Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've been meaning to write about me, my family and murder for decades and have finally plucked up the courage... open.substack.com/pub/ferguscr...

Me, my family and murder.

I think I must have been about nine.

open.substack.com

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've been meaning to write about me, my family and murder for decades and have finally plucked up the courage... open.substack.com/pub/ferguscr...

Me, my family and murder.

I think I must have been about nine.

open.substack.com

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lifetimes in a few short, well written paragraphs.

This resonated, for different reasons. My dad knew he'd passed his 11-plus but was still forced to attend a secondary modern. Why? His parents and extended family were all very active in the co-op/trade union movement and 'not the right class'.

My dad had always thought that he’d failed his eleven plus, meaning he didn’t get to go to grammar school and was instead sent to a secondary modern, the dumping ground of the British education system of his youth. In his forties, he went to a school reunion and learned that he had in fact passed it. They just didn’t want a boy from his family going to the nice school.

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

My mum’s just texted to say she disputes one fact: it was a duck, not a rabbit. Will edit.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Sep 8

"When my dad was a baby, his sixteen-year-old uncle was convicted of murdering a police officer. The case is famous because although Christopher Craig held the gun, it was Derek Bentley, his nineteen-year-old friend who hung for the crime."

Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've been meaning to write about me, my family and murder for decades and have finally plucked up the courage... open.substack.com/pub/ferguscr...

Me, my family and murder.

I think I must have been about nine.

open.substack.com

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a wonderful bit of writing.

Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've been meaning to write about me, my family and murder for decades and have finally plucked up the courage... open.substack.com/pub/ferguscr...

Me, my family and murder.

I think I must have been about nine.

open.substack.com

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