Author: Bone & Cane, The Pretender & other novels. Memoir: Don't Mention the Night. Music nerd. Poetry reader. Founding chair @nottmcityoflit Busier @Bluesky.
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9 Jan 2025
Why you should spend less time here on no account use the site's 'For You' tab (most people's default) unless you're determined to descend into the cess pit of evil that is the depraved consciousness of the site's owner.
ft.com/content/8e915955-e9f6…
ALT X allows users to switch between a feed of the accounts they follow only, and an algorithmic feed, dubbed “For You”, showing content that might match their interests and previous activity. The more Musk engages with content about the UK from the far right or niche sources, the more he will be served similar content in his “For You” page, according to experts. “Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe." FT
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19 Feb 2025
Poking my head up here to share this fine Richard Lapper obituary of my friend and fellow Sheffield born author @GeoffNicholson9 who died suddenly, after a long illness, last month. theguardian.com/books/2025/f…
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22 Jan 2025
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!
In cooperation with @ByDonkeys
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13 Jan 2025
The Cineworld closure news is especially bad for members of the Indian, Pakistani, Korean, Chinese/World communities in Nottingham, who are currently pretty well served. See, for instance, the offerings currently listed on the CW website. Hope @BroadwayCinema can do more here.
13 Jan 2025
Sad to receive an email saying @cineworld is closing its Nottingham cinema on February 2nd, having failed to secure a rent reduction. Their unlimited card has given great value for more than 20 years. Still, has to be good news for my favourite Nottingham cinema @BroadwayCinema
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13 Jan 2025
Sad to receive an email saying @cineworld is closing its Nottingham cinema on February 2nd, having failed to secure a rent reduction. Their unlimited card has given great value for more than 20 years. Still, has to be good news for my favourite Nottingham cinema @BroadwayCinema
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David Belbin retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Isobel Hardman in the Observer belittling prison libraries. Annoying when writers use cheap throwaway remarks on what they know little about. I’ve visited over 70. Most are excellent particularly if part of local council service. Each is a proper library and valued as such.
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10 Jan 2025
Sending solidarity and birthday wishes to Gaie Delap, a peaceful climate protester who is spending her 78th birthday behind bars – all because the private company responsible for fitting electronic tags couldn't find one the right size for her. Will keep pushing for her release.
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7 Jan 2025
The new @uncutmagazine has four acts I have tickets for in #Nottingham (The Weather Station, Richard Dawson, Delines & Nadia Reid) so I'm obviously in the right place. Hope BPB will tour too. Btw shouldn't Uncut be in the blue place by now?
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7 Jan 2025
As a lifelong @LFC supporter, couldn't think of anything that'd stop me supporting the club - until I read this.
theguardian.com/football/202…
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6 Jan 2025
Six minutes of decency, intelligence and common sense as Starmer denounces lies& praises Jess Philips while eviscerating Musk and Bad Enoch without stooping to name them. And yeah I like the way autocorrect makes me spell the Tory leader's name.
"Child sexual exploitation is utterly sickening."
Sir Keir Starmer answers a question from Sky's @BethRigby.
Latest: trib.al/YKanzN3
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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4 Jan 2025
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from Washington Post amp.theguardian.com/media/20…
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3 Jan 2025
R.I.P. David Lodge, who I knew a little. A fine novelist, lovely man & big influence on me: as a Catholic novelist & on my career as an academic, where his work on writing (especially the columns published as The Art of Fiction) was so lucid, insightful & helpful to my students.
ALT David Lodge in his 70s.
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29 Dec 2024
R.I.P. Jimmy Carter, the first rock'n'roll president, cruelly defeated, the most dignified of men, friend of @bobdylan Hunter S. Thompson & all who needed help.
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9 Dec 2024
Outstanding instore by White Denim at @RoughTrade Nottingham. The band were wearing in a new bassist, Dan, and played a full 95 minute set featuring the new LP, 12, bangers & requests. James Petralli in rare form.
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8 Dec 2024
2024: the sleeve notes (or skip straight to the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3k…)
davidbelbin.com/blog/2024/12…
ALT DB in front of Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans.
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2 Dec 2024
Delighted to receive this beautiful anthology of Record Mirror columns, edited by Mike Atkinson (aka @miketd the late James Hamilton's stepson) in the post today. A good read, valuable history & great reference book. Volume 2 to follow. You can order here superweirdsubstance.com/jame…
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28 Nov 2024
Happy first birthday to Nottingham's new City Library, home to @NottmCityOfLit and, as of yesterday, Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize statuette (in Local Studies for the next two years). Proud to talk about Holiday with Stanley's family & @nigelhawkins12 Thanks, all who came.
ALT Lynda Naylor & Stanley's daughter, Penny Lymn-Rose.
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27 Nov 2024
Today at 2pm in Nottingham Central Library, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize win for Holiday. The prize statuette will be on display. Free talk. Here's my @DawnoftheUnread Stanley story, Shelves, illustrated by Ella Joyce. dawnoftheunread.com/issue-14…
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26 Nov 2024
Plenty to discuss in this 1974 Booker Prize anniversary article from the website of the prize itself. They'll be represented at tomorrow's talks and presentation. Hope to see many of you at the City Library (first floor Local Studies section, from 2pm).
thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
25 Nov 2024
This Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of my friend Stanley Middleton winning the Booker Prize for Holiday. To mark the occasion his family is loaning our new city library his Booker statuette. I'll be speaking about Holiday as part of an event at 2-3pm. Do come. Free to book.
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