Books, nice dinners &rage about the state of things. George as in The Famous Five. A Picador (& thus Pan Macmillan) person but all views remain entirely my own.
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I often miss my life-enhancing, insanely generous & frequently infuriating mother. Never more so than now. Were she reading this, I have no doubt her response would be, ‘Don’t be fucking silly, darling. Now pull yourself together.’ Here she is, in typical pose.
This is utter balls. The South Bank was not no go in the 1980s. And though there were then - and before then and since then - parts of London that were dodgy and best avoided late at night, this is true of every major city.
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Thanks to @GuardianBooks for this fabulous review theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
Not really here any more but some
news for pals who still are thebookseller.com/news/picad…
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Memo to Labour's top table: you won because voters were sick of the Tories, not because they thought you would deliver Tory policies more efficiently. They wanted a fairer country. You have broken their hopes. Unforgiveable..
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Wonderful to see Charlie Colenutt's essay 'The Unbearable Tediousness of the Modern Workplace' in @idler ! Charlie's book Is This Working (March 6 @picadorbooks ) , a fascinating collection of interviews with workers across the UK. & Charlie's Drink with the Idler event Feb 27!🍷
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I’ve been on this beat my whole career. And I recognize a line of reasoning that I’ve encountered time and time again: that if you’re incredibly rich, cruel, or clever, the world can be your loophole. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Today the @gdnlongread published an excerpt from The Hidden Globe on Jean Ziegler, Switzerland’s pre-eminent leftist!
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This is a five alarm fire.
The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk.
Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.
This should not be a partisan issue.
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It now appears, HMS Agincourt was blocked by the King who wanted a different name
The last Tory govt knew this but "kicked the paperwork down the road" for the Labour govt
Could the attack below possibly be entirely disingenuous and opportunistic?
Renaming the HMS Agincourt is nothing short of sacrilege. This submarine carries a name that honours a defining moment in British history.
Under Labour, woke nonsense is being put ahead of tradition and our Armed Forces' proud heritage.
thesun.co.uk/news/33016725/r…
And Judith's brilliant new book
about handsome Gus and his equally gifted sister Gwen is coming from @picadorbooks on 19 June #ArtistsSiblingsVisionaries
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And there’s this.
Given he’s a member of the shadow cabinet - we must assume this is the agreed view of all Con shadow ministers and the Parly party at large.
Really? @VictoriaAtkins @MelJStride @TomTugendhat @carolinenokes
Not that anyone would care, but I'm going to be spending less time here and much more on the increasingly excellent and El0n-free lookalike. You can find me @georgeisediting.bsky.social
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Trump winning demonstrates that it wasn’t enough for the Dems to “not be the bad guy” to beat him this time. They needed a radical, positive vision for an increasingly unstable world. The Labour government must take note.
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On such days the immortal words in 2002 of former Whitehall permanent secretary Sir Richard Mottram re-echo down the ages: “We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. We're all completely fucked.”
