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RM Clark
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Freelance writer (FTWeekend, GQ, The Mill, The New European, WIRED etc) and author of 'Winner Stays On' - released 2024 with Pitch Publishing
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Yesterday marked a year since the publication of my book, Winner Stays On, with Pitch Publishing.

After a few months of sleep I decided to try my hand at freelancing and have since worked with FT Weekend, British GQ, WIRED, The Mill, MUNDIAL & more.

Here's to keeping moving forwards in 2025 🤞
Grateful to be living in a lovely (and completely new to me) city; small enough to be known and yet big enough not to be claustrophobic. E.g: I have caught one bus in the last four months - and drive the car so scarcely that I have forgotten what most of the buttons do. Fifteen minute city, irl.
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 AM
What else, in this little world, is going on? Well: wedding planning continues at pace. Flowers/photographer/suit. And, most importantly, we have booked our (suitably indulgent) honeymoon. Also, I'm halfway through my Masters Degree. I like most of what I'm writing and most of what I'm reading too.
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Last year, there was a lot of time and effort invested into making sure that our new place had an office room. Four months later, said office room has been overtaken by two newly-adopted kittens. They are completely brilliant and completely adorable. But they are not very helpful, organisationally.
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM
It's little old me in The New York Times. World's gone mad.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/a...
An Infamous Australian Prison Held the Unexpected: A Record Collection
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@ryanhwalsh.bsky.social Hey Ryan, please could you follow me back for a moment so that I can drop you a message? Best, Ruben
October 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@philippeauclair.bsky.social Hey Philipppe, is there a French equivalent idiom to "walking the tightrope" when a player is on a booking? Asking for an article I'm writing. Thanks v much
September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@bryansgunn.bsky.social Any chance you'd hop on a video call for half an hour to talk about your beautiful videos? Would love to interview you. Let me know.
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
good morning! have you ever been stretchered out of a bowling alley on a wednesday evening whilst Whigfield's 'Saturday Night' continues to blare from the speakers? No, me neither.
March 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Pure barista-core from me today. T-shirt tucked into suit trousers, trucker hat on my head. "Samosa Club Berlin" sticker on the back of my laptop. Oh, and I'm working as a barista. It's quiet, thus the tweet.
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
So much Musk-lore is too dangerous/scary to really laugh at. But thank god we'll always have Cybertrucks. (And the people who bought them).
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The northernmost record store in the world is in the Arctic Circle, at the top of Norway. The southernmost is at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island. As of about five minutes ago, it is my life's ambition to write a travel book visiting different record shops, journeying between the two.
March 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There's a much, much more interesting article to be written on the Gatekeeping Of Guinness. It's mad to see how many folk portray one of the best known drinks in the world as some secret, underground ritual.
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Not-For-Wankers Football Review #3.

Live now on Substack!
open.substack.com/pub/rmclarkr...
February 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Incredibly liberal use of the word "interesting" here.
January 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by RM Clark
Arts Council have asked for their £400k back and Sacha has resigned.

One for the Manchester crew!

manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-sac...
Breaking: Sacha Lord has resigned as an advisor to Andy Burnham
The Arts Council wants his company Primary Events to pay back the taxpayers’ money it obtained during the pandemic
manchestermill.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A nice surprise to check in on the land of Bezos and see that my trusty old steed, Winner Stays On, is currently the most gifted book in Essays & Sports Journalism.
January 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Delighted to publish the second issue of my new weekly newsletter, The Not-For-Wankers Football Review.

Subscribe for free here.

rmclarkrm.substack.com/p/the-not-fo...
January 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
All I have to add to the current WFH discourse is this -

My girlfriend is cuddled up under my shoulder watching The Elephant Man and our cat is asleep on my lap. I am working on the laptop. It's great.
January 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I launched a substack! It's called....

The Not-For-Wankers Football Review.

It's funny, it's quick, it's light. It's good, really.

Here's the first post.

rmclarkrm.substack.com/p/the-not-fo...
The Not-For-Wankers Football Review #1
Featuring Ratcliffe, Levy, and Big Bald Ange.
rmclarkrm.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by RM Clark
Why, in 2025, is a national newspaper still putting this twisted maniac* on its front page?

*and his air fryer recipes
January 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Incredibly cool that this exists. Angela Carter reviews Bob Dylan in 1966.

thelondonmagazine.org/archive-bob-...
Archive | Bob Dylan on Tour by Angela Carter - The London Magazine
As 'A Complete Unknown' comes to cinemas across the UK, we revisit Angela Carter's review of Bob Dylan's 1966 World Tour.
thelondonmagazine.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Beautiful venue, interesting talk. @manchestermill.bsky.social and Kath Viner at John Rylands Library.

Also - came home with a complimentary bookmark. It doesn't get better than this.
January 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Finally getting around to reading some HST, as is a rite of passage for any white male writer in their mid-20's. The surprising thing is how bloody good it is! Most of the essays in here are worlds more interesting than the self-indulgent excess that I'd expected. Lovely clear sentences too.
January 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just finely diced 2.25kg of onions
January 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by RM Clark
What stage of climate crisis is bulldozing abandoned luxury cars to make way for firetrucks?
January 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM