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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 19h

As I said to someone else today, the default map of accolades, prizes and names - contemporary or past - only occasionally matches my own.

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 20h

Yep. Agreed. I opted for the searing satirical novel rather than name-and-shame, it's in here: www.erratumpress.com/last-days-of...

Last Days of Pompeii, a comedy: volumes 1 & 2

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 20h

I once sat in on a lecture to dissertation students which told them to do just that...

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 20h

Stoke Ceramics Biennial. Great work, plus nostalgia for a benign boom that probably never existed (as represented) and a sort of Farageist imaginary in Stoke's mix of flags, pawn shop and what gets called gentrification + art tourists, wilfully deranged youth stopped by police, ruin and new build.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 21h

New York Times: as above, so below.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 2d

Alasdair Gray: 'Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.' Who could do that now without first being brainwashed?

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 2d

Here it is: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/w...

Wars and Wisdom

A. A. Milne – Happy Half Hours (Notting Hill Editions) A. A. Milne’s cricket team included Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse. Milne knew H.G. Wells. He was one of those people, ste…

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 3d

Nowt up wi a bit o AA Milne I reviewed some… link to follow…

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 3d

'The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease.' The Fatberg is perhaps the Ur-metaphor of our era.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 4d

This was excellent! Book looks great.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 6d

Neoreactionary architecture.

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 9d

Putting the 'Y' back into Mone. Good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 9d

Flat-u-lent.

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 9d

The Pontipines are flatulent.

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 10d

Remember to turn everything they say upside down, before reading.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 12d

Banging it down out there.

Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 12d

Woe the old vessel is spent, yea, scraped unto its depths and lo, the dregs of margarine cling to its walls like the sins of the stubborn peoples. Great shall be the lamentation and wailing of the toast-eaters so Repent! Cast out the crusted remnant! Lest ye be consumed in the judgment of grease.

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One more boring record collecting bloke @onemorebore.bsky.social · 13d

The stuffquake was coming to an end. Just bits of debris at the surface then suddenly CONEMELT oh my heart my heart.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 18d

This deep clear-out is excavating layers from the 1980s nobody wants to see, the fucking teeth are enough to have you reaching for the lighter fluid.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 19d

Right at the moment there's barely anything left of it. Slow handclap. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UK set to recognise Palestinian state on Sunday

Keir Starmer expected to confirm move after concluding the situation has worsened significantly in recent weeks

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 21d

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 21d

It should also be clear by now that the monarchy are as otiose as they get: all Charles' supposedly deep ecological principles and here he is. They belong together in some way though, because they're both as mad as a balloon. An end to all this courtly horseshit and chests full of unearned medals.

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Steve Hanson @stevehanson.bsky.social · 21d

All that effort, expense and rictus grinning. A week later and he'll be slapping the back of some other dodgy geezer and Putin'll be his mate again. They swap something that might have at least looked like principled governance for this?

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