James Alistair Henry
@jamesbluecat.bsky.social
Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack The Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/9781916678064
Pinned
Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
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My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC
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Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??
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Oh my god who fucking cares lads. Why are you basing policy on whether or not you're meeting a budget forecast by a billion here or there, it's not real. There are far more important things to concern yourself with!
This OBR/Treasury row on who said what, when... is very muddy and complicated.
A few points:
• idea that the OBR said on Oct 31 Reeves was already meeting her target by £4b isn't really the full picture - fcast excluded the welfare u-turns since March (some media have pointed that out, others not)
A few points:
• idea that the OBR said on Oct 31 Reeves was already meeting her target by £4b isn't really the full picture - fcast excluded the welfare u-turns since March (some media have pointed that out, others not)
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Oh my god who fucking cares lads. Why are you basing policy on whether or not you're meeting a budget forecast by a billion here or there, it's not real. There are far more important things to concern yourself with!
Apologies for the post about Tom Stoppard sending me letters about episides of Hey Duggee and later reusing my work in his plays, this was completely untrue and I believe I was hacked by the Russian Mafia.
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Apologies for the post about Tom Stoppard sending me letters about episides of Hey Duggee and later reusing my work in his plays, this was completely untrue and I believe I was hacked by the Russian Mafia.
YES, this was an incredible hour (ish) of telly, the sort of thing only yer genre tv can do.
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YES, this was an incredible hour (ish) of telly, the sort of thing only yer genre tv can do.
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
Today I got to use my favourite damage table in any rpg (in this case the Marvel Multiverse rpg):
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Today I got to use my favourite damage table in any rpg (in this case the Marvel Multiverse rpg):
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Current financial discourse taking me back to the early 2000's where everyone was going on about how people in their twenties were idiots for not saving properly and me and my friends were all, yes, sorry, we keep meaning to do something with all SPARE MONEY WE HAVE JUST LYING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Current financial discourse taking me back to the early 2000's where everyone was going on about how people in their twenties were idiots for not saving properly and me and my friends were all, yes, sorry, we keep meaning to do something with all SPARE MONEY WE HAVE JUST LYING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
Well, I tried to watch the new series of Stranger Things but unfortunately I can't remember who any one of them are or what happened before or who's cross with who or who that person is or why that's happening or why those people are over there etc.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Well, I tried to watch the new series of Stranger Things but unfortunately I can't remember who any one of them are or what happened before or who's cross with who or who that person is or why that's happening or why those people are over there etc.
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Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
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The life of a French fence must be exhausting, one day it's a load of snails that like 4 restaurants worldwide even want, the next it's the crown jewels of a country that hasn't existed for 400 years, probably tomorrow it's a thousand baguette baskets carefully handmade from Aquitanian reeds
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The life of a French fence must be exhausting, one day it's a load of snails that like 4 restaurants worldwide even want, the next it's the crown jewels of a country that hasn't existed for 400 years, probably tomorrow it's a thousand baguette baskets carefully handmade from Aquitanian reeds
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Just caught up with a friend who got back in touch recently after we hadn't seen each other for OH GOD twenty five years. He's recently written a book about hand-rearing baby gorillas, which is not where I thought he'd end up, but wow. Here is the book: summersdale.com/titles/alan-...
ANYWAY...
ANYWAY...
Gorillas in Our Midst
Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing two baby g...
summersdale.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just caught up with a friend who got back in touch recently after we hadn't seen each other for OH GOD twenty five years. He's recently written a book about hand-rearing baby gorillas, which is not where I thought he'd end up, but wow. Here is the book: summersdale.com/titles/alan-...
ANYWAY...
ANYWAY...
Ooh, exciting! *ordered*
The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver, my beautiful, wild epic fantasy of murdered gods and forgotten magic is out today from @gollancz.bsky.social
This book has lived in my head and heart for years. You could do me no greater kindness than ordering yourself a copy today, link in bio ⛵️💀🌊
This book has lived in my head and heart for years. You could do me no greater kindness than ordering yourself a copy today, link in bio ⛵️💀🌊
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ooh, exciting! *ordered*
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
Read this via @suw.bsky.social - I like @ghostgeek because although she is a pretty full-on skeptic she doesn't deny that there is some deeply weird stuff going on sometimes and never tries to hand wave it away 'It's just SCIENCE!'
The Skeptic Who Fled a Haunted House | The Ghost Geek
That time I was overwhelmed by a sudden sense of doom one summer day in Avebury
www.theghostgeek.com/p/the-skepti...
#StandingStones #HauntedHouses #Ghosts #Psychology
That time I was overwhelmed by a sudden sense of doom one summer day in Avebury
www.theghostgeek.com/p/the-skepti...
#StandingStones #HauntedHouses #Ghosts #Psychology
The Skeptic Who Fled a Haunted House
That time I was overwhelmed by a sense of doom one Summer day in Avebury...
www.theghostgeek.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Read this via @suw.bsky.social - I like @ghostgeek because although she is a pretty full-on skeptic she doesn't deny that there is some deeply weird stuff going on sometimes and never tries to hand wave it away 'It's just SCIENCE!'
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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Badenoch: "HIKING TAXES TO PAY FOR WELFARE!"
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Badenoch: "HIKING TAXES TO PAY FOR WELFARE!"
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
I like bleeding the radiators, because it's like the house does a tiny fart.
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I like bleeding the radiators, because it's like the house does a tiny fart.
Working on a radio project and the producers keep apologising to me for the money being so poor - finally had to break it to them that it's *way* better per minute than being in a team of tv writers where the script fee is split five or six ways. Poor things were genuinely shocked.
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Working on a radio project and the producers keep apologising to me for the money being so poor - finally had to break it to them that it's *way* better per minute than being in a team of tv writers where the script fee is split five or six ways. Poor things were genuinely shocked.