She's bloody mad. She's Liz Truss 2.0. The Labour Party is a mess, but the Tory Party is fucked. I mean absolutely final burning flame crash and die. Reform is going to eat it up, which isn't a good thing because Farage is high on the smell of his own fascist farts.

I watched a Bugle pod with Chris Skinner and @alicefraser.bsky.social talking about how Unbound screwed them with Alice's D'Ancey LaGuarde book. And it reminded me of my book being screwed and made me angry about the main people at Unbound all over again. (It should not my editor was lovely.)

The AI bust is going to make sub-prime mortgages disaster look like a walk in the park and once again stupid rich people who can't see a con when it is walking around with con tattooed on its naked arse will fuck the world up and expect us to bail them out and no one will go to prison. Capitalism.

Dear NHS, if I book a Covid booster and that get an email saying 'well, you might not be entitled to one, but we can't tell you until you get to the appointment' I'd suggest you're wasting my time. You've got my medical records. You should be able to tell me without me having to travel anywhere.

I suspect some misunderstanding with exchange rates. But I'm only guessing.

I totally rearranged my reading plans for October and reverted to my 'Author Projects'. So, I started my umpteenth re-read of 'The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams and I'm feeling the need to go back to the radio series, the TV series and even...the film.

If Arsenal want to increase the capacity of their stadium they should be forced to do something about the public transport services for getting there. Because currently they're fucking shocking.

He's about two weeks from running a Peter Griffiths, Smethwick 1964 election campaign. Look at the weaselly little shitbag. He really wants to.

I couldn't watch more than about five seconds of it. I really feel cringe. I feel I'm cringing not just myself but on behalf of his own dignity.

Jenrick’s gone full fascist conspiracy theories on judges. A network of them apparently. He’s not far off claiming there’s a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy. But it all very American. All these British ‘patriots’ who can’t think for themselves but steal bad racist angry ideas from the US.

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

youtu.be/lvzpnNSd0fo - My Remembrance Read launch video is up. With actual sound this time. The old one is still there because people commented.

As Jilly Cooper has died, the time has come to finally read Imogen. I bought it after listening to the excellent @backlisted.bsky.social episode on it. One of the key things I've realised is if you buy a book because of Backlisted you should read it straight away. Rather than shelve it for later.

After a fall. What a shock for her poor family. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Shoes of the Fisherman, which is about a Pope and a massive moral quandary. Has some scenes in Rome.
Dante - ha! James Holland's books on WW2 in Italy.

Look after your health. Because if you don't it'll fuck you in your 40s and 50s. Particularly exercise - it doesn't have to be drastic.

Don't compare your life to other people your age (or younger). There's always someone better off than you. There's always someone worse off than you.

I'd be pulling their balaclavas off.

Read the first one of these. Loved it. Intended to read the others. Haven’t done so yet. Must add them to the list.

Finished 1-0 to City. Which was probably fair. We were much better in the second half and City were probably a tad more nervous in the last few minutes than they probably expected to be. Haarland is a petulant prick though.

Bees 0-1 Man City - we are definitely trying to carve out a flukey draw.

At the Gtech ridiculously early because I can’t help myself. I always feel like tourist for EPL games. #Brentford Like all those League One and Two games were in black and white.

O fuck off you tedious pricks. Take this kind of performative homophobic bullshit back to America where it belongs.

This is correct. This is as much a terrorist attack as the one on the Synagogue. And should be treated as such.

You should have named him Blake.