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Iain Rowan
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Writer, rep @LiverpoolLit| Campaign Coordinator CPWF UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK) | Sunderland. https://iainrowan.com
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Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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the moomins went folk horror
July 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Words just dropped for Democracy’s headstone
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Just read Matthew Parris' obsequious hagiography of child-rapist-bootlicker Mandelson claiming the future will judge us badly for removing Petey from the Lords because he's tewwibly clever.

Matthew, the present, along with me, is judging you badly for this, right now. Very very badly. Vile.
Labour owes debt to giant of politics in modern era
Mandelson has been on the right side of every important argument in the politics of the left since the 1990s
www.thetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.
February 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Oooff. And what is more, ooofffff.
someone came to you in person to raise concerns about Mandelson over 12 years ago. his connections to Epstein had already been reported in some of the UK's biggest papers, and he was several times disgraced beyond that.

you chose to mock yr constituent's concern publicly to your large following
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Let this be a lesson for all of us.
*gestures vaguely at everything, everywhere*
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I just wish more headlines read like this.
The Ancient War continues
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband

these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly

www.ft.com/content/608a...
January 31, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Spooky season will be going into overtime in 2026, with the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE running from the weekend of 6th-8th February! Let us bring the hauntings to you for the weekend... www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #hauntings #gothic #gothicfiction
January 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
www.thebookseller.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Morning all.

Photograph by Daniel Meadows. Workington, Cumbria, 1974.
January 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Good. Good. Good. Bury it dumped in an unmarked field, like so many tens of thousands of the dogs.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Down the river and then back with the tides.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
As opposed to what other kinds of settlements, please?
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#SouthernWater don't even realise it's their fault for ten days, (or so they say - does anyone trust them?), deny all liability to an MP, then finally admit to the catastrophic release of *millions* of carcinogenic bio-beads now washing up on beaches in the south-east.
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
Short Story Submission Opportunities at The Fiction Desk
Information on submitting short stories to the Fiction Desk.
www.thefictiondesk.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Those opening moments of first draft when the elegant, lapidary story in your head becomes the stunted, lumbering mutant on the page.
a green monster with big eyes is standing on a sandy beach .
ALT: a green monster with big eyes is standing on a sandy beach .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM