Matthew Fox
@mattfoxwriter.bsky.social
Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 🇺🇸 | Waterstones Best Children's Fiction Books '22 🇬🇧 | Bath Children’s Novel Award winner | Rep’d: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
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“Is it necessary to suffer in order to be a writer? Don’t worry about the suffering. The suffering will occur whether you like it or not.” - Margaret Atwood
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'The medics are forced to create a new acronym for them. WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.'
I am so shaken by this book.
I am so shaken by this book.
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
'The medics are forced to create a new acronym for them. WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.'
I am so shaken by this book.
I am so shaken by this book.
'The medics are forced to create a new acronym for them. WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.'
I am so shaken by this book.
I am so shaken by this book.
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
'The medics are forced to create a new acronym for them. WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.'
I am so shaken by this book.
I am so shaken by this book.
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Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder
Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!
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October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Let alone the planet.
Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise
Ed Miliband is planning to encourage drilling in the North Sea despite a manifesto promise not to grant new licences on new parts of the British sea bed.
The energy secretary is looking at ways in which the government can allow companies to look for and produce more oil and gas without breaking Labour’s pre-election pledge not to issue new licences on new fields. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Let alone the planet.
Let alone the planet.
Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise
Ed Miliband is planning to encourage drilling in the North Sea despite a manifesto promise not to grant new licences on new parts of the British sea bed.
The energy secretary is looking at ways in which the government can allow companies to look for and produce more oil and gas without breaking Labour’s pre-election pledge not to issue new licences on new fields. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Let alone the planet.
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🔥YAY! It’s publication day!📚 And I’m giving away one copy to a UK school or library. Just post a comment with the name of your UK secondary school or library and postcode, then like, share, follow. I’ll draw a winner on 14th September 25. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻☘
August 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🔥YAY! It’s publication day!📚 And I’m giving away one copy to a UK school or library. Just post a comment with the name of your UK secondary school or library and postcode, then like, share, follow. I’ll draw a winner on 14th September 25. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻☘
"The day after he was stripped of the whip, the government slipped out some amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill that look very similar to Hinchliff’s own – including one that gives some protections to “irreplaceable habitats” such as chalk streams."
What are Labour playing at?
What are Labour playing at?
‘It’s all a game’ to some politicians, says Labour MP suspended for rebellion over planning bill
Chris Hinchliff says language used is indicative of ‘private schoolboy drinking club’ culture within government
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"The day after he was stripped of the whip, the government slipped out some amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill that look very similar to Hinchliff’s own – including one that gives some protections to “irreplaceable habitats” such as chalk streams."
What are Labour playing at?
What are Labour playing at?
"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose it status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
August 2019
415 ppm of CO₂" - ASM
August 2019
415 ppm of CO₂" - ASM
Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose it status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
August 2019
415 ppm of CO₂" - ASM
August 2019
415 ppm of CO₂" - ASM
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This bit. This bit right here.
No, assholes, you do not have the right to take anything you can find on the internet and use it to feed your plagiarism machines.
Another reason to be grateful we're living in the EU.
No, assholes, you do not have the right to take anything you can find on the internet and use it to feed your plagiarism machines.
Another reason to be grateful we're living in the EU.
July 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This bit. This bit right here.
No, assholes, you do not have the right to take anything you can find on the internet and use it to feed your plagiarism machines.
Another reason to be grateful we're living in the EU.
No, assholes, you do not have the right to take anything you can find on the internet and use it to feed your plagiarism machines.
Another reason to be grateful we're living in the EU.
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Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
Nearly all rivers, lakes and ponds in England tested for a range of Pfas, known as “forever chemicals”, exceed proposed new safety limits and 85% contain levels at least five times higher, analysis of official data reveals.
Out of 117 water bodies tested by the Environment Agency for multiple types of Pfas, 110 would fail the safety standard, according to analysis by Wildlife and Countryside Link and the Rivers Trust. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
”This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong trivialises his subjects by refusing to look at them directly, to describe them patiently; he seems not to trust the strength of his own material, or the perceptions of the reader.”
Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure
In On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong considered himself to be reworking the traditional novel in a poetic vein....
www.lrb.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
”This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong trivialises his subjects by refusing to look at them directly, to describe them patiently; he seems not to trust the strength of his own material, or the perceptions of the reader.”
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I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
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I wrote 60000+ words for “Why Don’t Things Fall Up!” It took me months and months of work, and I got paid less than equivalent of two months of a teachers’ salary. It’s now being sold for £3 on Amazon so would have to sell many thousands of copies for me to start earning royalties.
’Unearned’ is so strange… No, we earned it, we did the work, we already WROTE THE BOOK. You didn’t do your work, promoting it. It’s your bit that is unearned, not ours.
June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I wrote 60000+ words for “Why Don’t Things Fall Up!” It took me months and months of work, and I got paid less than equivalent of two months of a teachers’ salary. It’s now being sold for £3 on Amazon so would have to sell many thousands of copies for me to start earning royalties.
Thank you, Edmund White.
Re-reading the 1980s...
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Thank you, Edmund White.
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Re-reading the 1980s...
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
November 26, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Re-reading the 1980s...
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and its sequels.
Essential reading for this teenage boy. Had I read anything remotely like it before? I don't think so.
A door opened; some things started to make sense.
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Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like @ninastibbe.bsky.social have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted
The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...
www.backlisted.fm
May 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like @ninastibbe.bsky.social have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
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They're just going to have to find efficiencies.
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
They're just going to have to find efficiencies.
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make it stop
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
make it stop
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…
May 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…
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I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…
May 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…