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Jenny Lecoat

@jennylecoat.bsky.social

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NYT bestselling author: "The Girl From The Channel Islands", "Beyond Summerland." Ex comic. Liberal-lefty that tries not to group-think, sweary, surprisingly old – surprising to me, anyway. Love the sea, pubs & great writing

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 8h

THIS! Check out Byline Times for proper investigative reporting needed now more than ever. Keeps you ahead of mainstream news outlets for a couple of quid a month. And no, they're not paying me!

Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 9h

Byline has become one of the most important sources of news in the country! Amazing what a difference it makes when you're not owned/controlled by a foreign billionaire x

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 10h

Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is exactly the point. Questions devised with one eye on a grabby headline. Though who it's meant to appeal to is another question.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 5d

It comes & goes. But slowly it goes more often than it comes, and eventually it stops coming altogether. Not doing it is the only trick there is.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 9d

Happened to me once after a gig when I lived on the 19th floor in London. I had my guitar in a heavy plastic case.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 9d

Ing Hell Indeed.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9d

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 9d

If the international left worked as well together as the international far right, it would be a nicer world.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 24d

They want to control our words more than they control guns. Isn’t that something

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 24d

I was a stand up in the 80s, a time when ironically some people thought the new wave too politically correct. Always loved US stand up. Never thought I'd live to see a US comic fired for the political pleasure of a president. Dark day for the US and for true free speech.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Aug 17

Readers of Becky's first book, Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You, will know to expect useful anti-scam info in highly entertaining form. I'll be getting this. (Probably from a different retailer though, if poss)

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Aug 17

Excellent!

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · Aug 16

#BookSky

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have visited The Bull at Charlbury several times. It's a great pub with great food. Even better now.

🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · Aug 15

Oh this is GLORIOUS! Well done pub staff 🖤

JD Vance tried to book a table at The Bull in Charlbury, but word got to the staff, who warned they'd walk out rather than serve him, leaving management with no choice but to cancel his reservation and send the would-be VP packing in what locals gleefully dubbed a "mini-mutiny."

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Aug 15

The excellent Tax Justice Network explain financial reality vs the myths.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · Aug 15

taxjustice.net/2025/07/24/t...

This is an interesting read.

The myth-buster’s guide to the “millionaire exodus” scare story - Tax Justice Network

Millionaires are staying where they are, despite over 18000 news pieces published around the world since the start of 2024 claiming otherwise. The news reporting is largely based on a report by golden...

taxjustice.net

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Aug 1

First night? Ooh, that brought a shiver. All the luck, and let us know if you're down this way in the autumn.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 31

See also: mid December to mid Jan, 3 weeks in April/ March (depending when Easter) and all of August if you're arts related (Edinburgh festival). Pity the self employed WFH. Someone tell Mr Rees-Mogg.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 30

Great thread. DH Lawrence & Barbara Cartland (OK not really literary) But all writers are self absorbed arseholes. Only comics are worse.

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jul 30

Another one? If only there were other books with great stories written by women that could ve adapted for tv ….

I love it by the way but really?

Phil Edwards - Live for Films @liveforfilms.bsky.social · Jul 30

Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice has started production. Details here bit.ly/3UDLgbK

#PrideandPrejudice #TV #Netflix #EmmaCorrin #OliviaColman #JackLowden #RufusSewell #book #JaneAusten

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 25

Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jul 23

You’re so Venn

A Venn diagram showing three circles overlapping, one says I bet you think this graph is about and the other two say Don’t Dont and the middle says You

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh that's great!

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excellent thread here. I remember when The Telegraph was respected even by centrists and left wingers. I'm pretty old.

Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 2

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · Jun 28

"I'm extremely wealthy and I deserve to be"??? What kind of onanist says something like that? Wish he was bloody Sailing.