Andrew Furlow
@andrewfurlow.bsky.social
Book publishing person, formerly of Harper North, @iconbooks & @greystonebooks
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We’re looking for someone to join the @hopenothate.org.uk research team for 3 months to work on our anti-Reform team. Have a look!
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Apply to be a Temporary Journalist/Researcher
HOPE not hate is hiring a temporary journalist/researcher to investigate Reform UK and the far right. 3-month contract, £35k pro rata. Apply by 1 Feb.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
We’re looking for someone to join the @hopenothate.org.uk research team for 3 months to work on our anti-Reform team. Have a look!
hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...
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7️⃣ On the seventh day of Christmas Folk on Foot gave to me: Kerry Andrew a-swimming in the Brockwell Lido
Listen to the episode: t.co/OSQavzUo80
Listen to the episode: t.co/OSQavzUo80
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
7️⃣ On the seventh day of Christmas Folk on Foot gave to me: Kerry Andrew a-swimming in the Brockwell Lido
Listen to the episode: t.co/OSQavzUo80
Listen to the episode: t.co/OSQavzUo80
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My resolution for the New Year is to attack and dethrone God.
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 AM
My resolution for the New Year is to attack and dethrone God.
All the books I finished in 2025:
(asterisks = re-reads)
1. Austerlitz - WG Sebald*
2. Mongrel - Hanako Footman (audio)
3. Out of the Darkness - Frank Trentmann
4. All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
5. The Emigrants - WG Sebald*
(asterisks = re-reads)
1. Austerlitz - WG Sebald*
2. Mongrel - Hanako Footman (audio)
3. Out of the Darkness - Frank Trentmann
4. All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
5. The Emigrants - WG Sebald*
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
All the books I finished in 2025:
(asterisks = re-reads)
1. Austerlitz - WG Sebald*
2. Mongrel - Hanako Footman (audio)
3. Out of the Darkness - Frank Trentmann
4. All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
5. The Emigrants - WG Sebald*
(asterisks = re-reads)
1. Austerlitz - WG Sebald*
2. Mongrel - Hanako Footman (audio)
3. Out of the Darkness - Frank Trentmann
4. All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
5. The Emigrants - WG Sebald*
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Thinking about anyone who is struggling at this time of year, including those who are grieving, remembering time past. These days, stretched out like they are, can feel particularly jarring (I remember it well) which chimes with this piece I wrote for Xmas 2021. Posting now for anyone who needs it:
As a widow, I know the strangeness of grief and that ghosts come in many forms | Kat Lister
An old voicemail or credit card can conjure memories of my husband, blurring the line between ‘now’ and ‘then’, says author Kat Lister
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thinking about anyone who is struggling at this time of year, including those who are grieving, remembering time past. These days, stretched out like they are, can feel particularly jarring (I remember it well) which chimes with this piece I wrote for Xmas 2021. Posting now for anyone who needs it:
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oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
Really pleased to be helping bring @keithkahnharris.bsky.social’s extremely cool and very heavy book - my second commission from my time at HarperNorth over the summer - to the world! 🤟
HarperCollins has bought The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: How Metal Teaches Us to Live.
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HarperNorth scoops The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: How Metal Teaches Us to Live
HarperCollins has bought The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: How Metal Teaches Us to Live.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Really pleased to be helping bring @keithkahnharris.bsky.social’s extremely cool and very heavy book - my second commission from my time at HarperNorth over the summer - to the world! 🤟
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Shame on everyone who made this happen. Also, Woodcraft Folk forever.
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Shame on everyone who made this happen. Also, Woodcraft Folk forever.
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Hard to read this and not feel a flare of righteous fury at the absolute cruelty that underpins the anti-trans movement.
Just diabolical to force a tiny number of girls and young women out because you've let your twitter algorithm convince you they're dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Just diabolical to force a tiny number of girls and young women out because you've let your twitter algorithm convince you they're dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hard to read this and not feel a flare of righteous fury at the absolute cruelty that underpins the anti-trans movement.
Just diabolical to force a tiny number of girls and young women out because you've let your twitter algorithm convince you they're dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Just diabolical to force a tiny number of girls and young women out because you've let your twitter algorithm convince you they're dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is lovely: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked ...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is lovely: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
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From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
Really sorry to hear this. Studying and watching Arcadia with Rufus Sewell at the National in the early nineties was the first time I saw a non-Shakespeare play live and it was formative. I much recommend Hermione Lee's fairly recent biog of him, too.
Truly a playwright for the ages. The recent staging of Rock’n’roll at the Hampstead Theatre was so good I saw it twice in a week, and cried at the end both times.
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Really sorry to hear this. Studying and watching Arcadia with Rufus Sewell at the National in the early nineties was the first time I saw a non-Shakespeare play live and it was formative. I much recommend Hermione Lee's fairly recent biog of him, too.
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Depressingly well-made point.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Depressingly well-made point.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival
When I walked into the hotel lobby the first person I saw was a woman with enormous lips wearing a T-shirt that said BAN ASSAULT VACCINES. Wow, Austin really has changed, I thought. I used to come …
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November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
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Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
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Well said @stuhennigan.bsky.social. @robinince.bsky.social your work is a shining light and really helps people, not many can say that
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
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So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Amazing work this!
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Amazing work this!
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The planet is dying. I know the fight against fascism feels so acute, but there will be nothing left to fight for if we don't bring these longer term challenges. Please - will you support our climate litigation?
We’re working with @glanlaw.bsky.social and our claimants SOS UK, @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Save Hemsby Coastline to challenge the UK government.
Starmer’s climate framework is so full of holes that it breaches our right to family life. Support our challenge here:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Starmer’s climate framework is so full of holes that it breaches our right to family life. Support our challenge here:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Make Keir Starmer step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The planet is dying. I know the fight against fascism feels so acute, but there will be nothing left to fight for if we don't bring these longer term challenges. Please - will you support our climate litigation?