Miranda Emmerson/Davies
@mirandaemmerson.bsky.social
Novelist (4th Estate); dramatist (BBC); and academic looking at radio, BBC history and British national identities. Currently exploring narratives around women's boxing at University of South Wales. 🏴🏴🇫🇷🇵🇱
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My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
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Being compared to Enoch Powell and endorsed by Tommy Robinson - I wonder if this is how Starmer was hoping things would go
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Being compared to Enoch Powell and endorsed by Tommy Robinson - I wonder if this is how Starmer was hoping things would go
I have voted Labour (in GEs) pretty much my entire life. Gritting my teeth through the Iraq war; the constant flirting with anti-immigration rhetoric of the past decade; the denial around the rise in antisemitism during the Corbyn years…
But I don’t think I can do it any more. I’m out.
But I don’t think I can do it any more. I’m out.
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I have voted Labour (in GEs) pretty much my entire life. Gritting my teeth through the Iraq war; the constant flirting with anti-immigration rhetoric of the past decade; the denial around the rise in antisemitism during the Corbyn years…
But I don’t think I can do it any more. I’m out.
But I don’t think I can do it any more. I’m out.
Gail’s stuff is stunning. Go get yourself a wonderful piece of design!! For a present or just because you want a bit of beautiful architecture on your T shirt…
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Gail’s stuff is stunning. Go get yourself a wonderful piece of design!! For a present or just because you want a bit of beautiful architecture on your T shirt…
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Many congratulations to David #Szalay, winner of the 2025 @thebookerprizes.com You can hear Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín and @harriettsg.bsky.social discuss his prize-winning novel, Flesh, on A Good Read @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas #Booker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Zadie Smith and Colm Tóibín
Two authors join Harriett Gilbert to share favourite books.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Many congratulations to David #Szalay, winner of the 2025 @thebookerprizes.com You can hear Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín and @harriettsg.bsky.social discuss his prize-winning novel, Flesh, on A Good Read @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas #Booker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Barry Island in moody but beautiful form…
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Barry Island in moody but beautiful form…
I don’t have any sufficiently young people to buy for, but doesn’t this look brilliant! Perfect present for curious minds.
I got @alomshaha.bsky.social’s new book for the 7yo for his birthday. (Though of course, when he gets it he’ll be “the 8yo”. Time!)
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I don’t have any sufficiently young people to buy for, but doesn’t this look brilliant! Perfect present for curious minds.
Roland, as ever, is 💯
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Roland, as ever, is 💯
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Roger Sale, a fondly-remembered University of Washington professor, reviewed hundreds of novels in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1979, he selected 15 “Neglected Recent American Novels" for The American Scholar:
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November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Roger Sale, a fondly-remembered University of Washington professor, reviewed hundreds of novels in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1979, he selected 15 “Neglected Recent American Novels" for The American Scholar:
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
Very pertinent thread 👇
My partner makes TV ads. One of the main reasons so many are diversely cast is so that they can be used in a number of global markets simultaneously.
Today, UK Reform party MP Sarah Pochin told Talk TV "it drives me mad seeing adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people ... People who are anything other than white."
October 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Very pertinent thread 👇
I’m rubbish at promoting my own work but I have a story in this cracking and ridiculously diverse anthology. Just out of the launch and in awe of my fellow writers….
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m rubbish at promoting my own work but I have a story in this cracking and ridiculously diverse anthology. Just out of the launch and in awe of my fellow writers….
Important first person testimony and argument from one of our healthcare workers in Wales and what it has taken for him and his wife to join our health workforce from abroad.
nation.cymru/opinion/we-c...
nation.cymru/opinion/we-c...
We came here to help, not to take
Olaoluwa Elijah Two years ago my wife, our child and I left everything familiar behind. I had worked for more than 16 years in my home country, but opportunities had dried up and the economy was faili...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Important first person testimony and argument from one of our healthcare workers in Wales and what it has taken for him and his wife to join our health workforce from abroad.
nation.cymru/opinion/we-c...
nation.cymru/opinion/we-c...
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There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.
My English degree led to: working in comms for multiple charities; health journalism; working in accessible comms for people with a learning disability; writing novels; writing drama for the BBC; and researching the cultural construction of Britain’s national identities. It’s a great degree.
So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
My English degree led to: working in comms for multiple charities; health journalism; working in accessible comms for people with a learning disability; writing novels; writing drama for the BBC; and researching the cultural construction of Britain’s national identities. It’s a great degree.
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We utterly condemn what appears to have been an arson attack on a mosque in Peacehaven.
October 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We utterly condemn what appears to have been an arson attack on a mosque in Peacehaven.
It would be really helpful if we could start talking in a joined-up way about the desecration of non-Christian religious spaces. Islamophobia and antisemitism rises and falls together. The far right wants to drive a wedge between the Muslim and Jewish communities of Britain but we can all resist.
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It would be really helpful if we could start talking in a joined-up way about the desecration of non-Christian religious spaces. Islamophobia and antisemitism rises and falls together. The far right wants to drive a wedge between the Muslim and Jewish communities of Britain but we can all resist.
Trying to anaesthetise the pain of the world with art.
In the past 48 hours I’ve downed bilingual Romeo a Juliet (Welsh and English) which I really enjoyed. And seen One Battle After Another which (with normal PTA reservations) I enjoyed immensely. And read half of The Names which is excellent.
In the past 48 hours I’ve downed bilingual Romeo a Juliet (Welsh and English) which I really enjoyed. And seen One Battle After Another which (with normal PTA reservations) I enjoyed immensely. And read half of The Names which is excellent.
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trying to anaesthetise the pain of the world with art.
In the past 48 hours I’ve downed bilingual Romeo a Juliet (Welsh and English) which I really enjoyed. And seen One Battle After Another which (with normal PTA reservations) I enjoyed immensely. And read half of The Names which is excellent.
In the past 48 hours I’ve downed bilingual Romeo a Juliet (Welsh and English) which I really enjoyed. And seen One Battle After Another which (with normal PTA reservations) I enjoyed immensely. And read half of The Names which is excellent.
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Encountering the strange mixture of sadness and riotous absurdity at the heart of this show at the age of 15 changed my life.
This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.
This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Encountering the strange mixture of sadness and riotous absurdity at the heart of this show at the age of 15 changed my life.
This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.
This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.
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Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)
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Spoke to a Turkish cabbie last night, who talked about how the English left felt as if it had disappeared; how he felt unsafe and vulnerable while watching the far-right get more popular. He was in his sixties, living in a tiny flat, and called himself one of the lucky ones. Quietly heartbreaking.
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Spoke to a Turkish cabbie last night, who talked about how the English left felt as if it had disappeared; how he felt unsafe and vulnerable while watching the far-right get more popular. He was in his sixties, living in a tiny flat, and called himself one of the lucky ones. Quietly heartbreaking.
God, I love Graham Greene (and read him when I don’t know what to read) but he’s so bad at understanding women. The End of the Affair is so beautifully written and so stupidly and clumsily misogynistic. You want to shout: ‘Bloody hell, Graham, have a chat with a woman once in a while and *listen*.’
September 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
God, I love Graham Greene (and read him when I don’t know what to read) but he’s so bad at understanding women. The End of the Affair is so beautifully written and so stupidly and clumsily misogynistic. You want to shout: ‘Bloody hell, Graham, have a chat with a woman once in a while and *listen*.’
Probably silly but I’m so upset about Angie Rayner. I have so much respect for her. She has had to fight her way to where she got. I don’t believe she’s a bad person. I don’t believe she’s corrupt. And she was basically the only wc woman at the top of government.
September 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Probably silly but I’m so upset about Angie Rayner. I have so much respect for her. She has had to fight her way to where she got. I don’t believe she’s a bad person. I don’t believe she’s corrupt. And she was basically the only wc woman at the top of government.
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Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Living in Wales, the whole St George's flag thing seems at the same time to be very near and very far away. Have visions of crossing the border & being faced by a landscape of jarring red & white. Mind you, Bristol's on the other side, so the flags probably say Refugees Welcome or Aardman Forever.
August 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Living in Wales, the whole St George's flag thing seems at the same time to be very near and very far away. Have visions of crossing the border & being faced by a landscape of jarring red & white. Mind you, Bristol's on the other side, so the flags probably say Refugees Welcome or Aardman Forever.