@Ofmooseandmen @GuardianBooks @thebookseller @PublishersAssoc @BookCornerHX Um, JUDY Starr, actually. And I would like to point out that I also have eleven 'O' levels, a green belt for judo, City & Guilds Handmade Fine Furniture and an honours degree. Just in case anyone thinks that's my only qualification.

Show your support for Janet Skinner. Now left with no option but to sue the Post Office for redress on her wrongful conviction. Janet was given a 9 month custodial sentence and had to sell her home. Yet Paula Vennells walked away with £millions #BBCBreakfast #PostOfficeScandal

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

Windermere vs Buttermere Windermere: Since 2017, over fifty billion litres of treated sewage and more than 30,000 hours of untreated sewage have made their way into the lake. Buttermere: a lake where the water company is not allowed to put any sewage at all. Images taken on 24

Victims names were supposed to be redacted for their protection. Instead the government spent thousands of hours redacting details that identify the predators. They let multiple victims be identified. This is not justice. This is a cover up.

🚨Baroness Mone isn’t the only Tory Peer named on the VIP Lane lists. Also named: Lord Agnew Lord Gove Lord Leigh Lord Feldman Lord Chadlington Lord Marks Lord Deighton Lord Bethell Lord Lansley Lord Prior +10 other Tory MP’s! Listen to my October chat with @BylineTimesPod :

Good morning. A very happy Christmas to everyone in the book community. Readers, librarians, booksellers, reviewers, literary editors , bloggers. As we enter our 20th year of publishing we would like to thank you all for your continued support. Magic.

Well, we've dusted the abacus down and used all our fingers and toes and can announce that: We've had the best sales year ever with Q4 blowing the bloody doors off. Many thanks to all our authors, readers booksellers and librarians. Bloody magic. @thebookseller

No one should be getting rich off the backs of vulnerable children. I am calling for radical, thoughtful investment with integrity to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush 👇🏻

Good morning. Lottie walked. Came back with half of the moors attached. Time for a brew.

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue. It would affect only 173 People. Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades. It‘s time for payback.

Congratulations Subotica, Richie Conroy Mark Hodkinson, Andrew Chaplin and all the cast and crew. FYI UK BROADCASTER SHOW OF THE YEAR Leonard and Hungry Paul https://t.co/oOwJu4WHDA

Bluemoose books you may wish to give this Christmas. The Accidental Immigrants - Jo Mcmillan The Orange Notebooks - Susanna Crossman Beast - Lulu Allison Celeste - Colette Snowden Orca and Bird - Anna Chilvers Magic!!

What a year. Best year for sales, ever. Foreign rights sold in Spain, France, Netherlands & Germany. Film option sold to Disney/Fox Searchlight of NOD by Adrian Barnes. 10th successive year of being short listed for lit prizes. 2nd TV adaptation of BM book. @thebookseller

Joyous dancing!

Delighted to reveal the cover of: THE LIGHTNING by Jamie Guiney. We're publishing his debut 28th May 2026 At No Alibis books in Belfast. @BBCnireland @artscouncil_ie @VisitBelfast

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

LIKE if you think Farage, who prioritises Trump’s interests over the interests of the UK, is our least patriotic party leader since records began. REPOST if you think he prioritises his own accumulation of wealth over anything else. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time. Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes. From April many residents who previously paid nothing will now

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I think they’ve quit teaching this.