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Nilam McGrath
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Here’s a poem called ‘Christmas without you is’.
Christmas without you is                A cracker in need of pulling. A glass of wine that could do with more mulling. A stocking lacking in presents. A champagne cocktail without effervescence. A Santa Claus who doesn’t convince. A deep-filled mince pie with no deep-filled mince. A Wise Man bereft of myrrh (substitute gold or frankincense, if you prefyrrh). A card you've written but forgotten to send. It's A Wonderful Life without the bit at the end. An out-of-tune carol. A big tin of Roses with no Golden Barrel. A Bowie without a Bing. A merrily-on-high dong that’s lost its ding. Mistletoe without a kiss. That's what Christmas without you is.   Brian Bilston
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
nilammcgrath.bsky.social
Not been dropped here yet...
BBC Maestro is advertising a writing course fronted by David Walliams, who has been dropped by his publisher for allegations of inappropriate behaviour
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs   Fake news travels fast. Post in haste, regret immediately. Two’s company, three’s a crowdsourcing campaign. AI for an eye, an untruth for a truth. Beware of geeks bearing gifs. Caesar’s Wi-Fi must be above suspicion. A scrolling phone gathers no moss. Share and share and like. Don’t feed the troll that bites you. Empty influencers make the most noise. Every blog has its day. Blessed are the content creators. There’s a time and podcast for everything. Do not judge clickbait by its cover. A WhatsApp a day keeps your mother at bay. All’s well that trends well. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach a man to phish and you pheed him for a lifetime. Every cloud has a data centre. Spam tomorrow and spam yesterday – and always spam today. The end justifies the memes. Brian Bilston
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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goldcaro.bsky.social
Anyway, gonna wear my ‘Told you so’ t-shirt for all the people who I begged not to buy his books. Money talks. And it means people can behave like utter dicks and it’s an open secret for a decade and nobody does anything as people get hurt.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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samatlounge.bsky.social
News is strategically broken on a Friday afternoon so people forget about it over the w/e, so I think it’s very important that we return to this on Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday etc etc
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
A very happy Probably Not Able To Pretend You Didn't Know Any More Day to all the people who knew for years but kept protecting him ❤️
annaframe.bsky.social Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 4d
Oh my god. It’s actually finally happened. Merry Christmas, everyone!
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.
Tense Christmas I The Ghost of Christmas Past Perfect Progressive Midnight. Awoken by a ghost. I thought I must be raving. He’d come to me so I could see how badly I’d been behaving. II The Ghost of Christmas Present Perfect Simple Later still, a ghost again: with a much more recent scene. More evidence piling up of how unpleasant I have been. III The Ghost of Christmas Future Unreal Conditional Then, a final ghostly vision – but this one lacked the pain and strife. I saw if I could be a kinder man, I would create a better life. Brian Bilston
December 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
In a foolhardy attempt to appease my bank manager, I suppose I should mention that I have some books which may – or may not – make suitable presents for Christmas.

They should be available through your local bookshop - and the online ones. Here are what a few of them look like …
A Poem for Every Question And So This is Christmas You Took the Last Bus Home Days Like These
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
This poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree (well, most of it is) … Needles I wrote a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree but then forgot to water it and only a few days later [but the words beyond this point are scattered around the bottom of the page, like needles which have fallen from a Xmas tree) there were words all over the carpet
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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mjclayman.bsky.social
From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social
BONUS EPISODE

To coincide with the launch of our guide to Making Tax Digital, here's a bonus episode of our podcast.

Theo visited the offices of specialist accountant @hwfisheruk to discuss MTD, the biggest change to the freelance tax regime since the introduction of self-assessment.
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
nilammcgrath.bsky.social
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Let's GOOOOO!

Factual sketch comedy, for families! Made by the team behind YDTM plus great comedy sketch writers & performers!
Out this Christmas on R4 (3eps) & Sounds (15eps)
It's Ya Gal's 1st production credit!
You're in for a good time, comedy fans!
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Press release for Dead Funny History. Reads: You’re Dead to Me: Dead Funny History New series launches Monday 15 December. Three special episodes will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 19 December, 26 December and 2 January. Artwork for Dead Funny History featuring BBC branding. Line art symbols and cartoons surround text: “You’re Dead to me Presents Dead Funny History.” Attention kids of all ages! Dead Funny History is the brand-new comedy history show for everyone aged 8 to 108, from the team behind the hit Radio 4 podcast You’re Dead to Me. What links a 70-foot colossus to the prettiest cow in Ancient Egypt? Which world-famous siblings began as terrible teachers? And what was the surprisingly dangerous Christmas game in medieval Britain? From Ramesses the Great to the Brontë sisters to the history of football, Greg Jenner serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history. Expect pirates, spies, superstars, chariot races, bouncing cats, ancient toilets, radioactive notebooks, and a pig named Albert, all crammed into 14-minute episodes packed with jokes and sketches. Dead Funny History is a brilliantly bonkers historical romp for the whole family to enjoy. Starring: Richard David Caine (Horrible Histories), Mali Ann Rees (Mammoth), and John-Luke Roberts (Sound Heap), with scripts by top comedy writers Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Jack Bernhardt, Athena Kugblenu, and You’re Dead to Me’s own Dr Emma Nagouse. Presenter: Greg Jenner Written by: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Jack Bernhardt, Athena Kugblenu, Dr Emma Nagouse Produced by: Dr Emma Nagouse and Gabby Hutchinson Crouch Audio Producer: Emma Weatherill BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
OMG! It won! What a brilliant book!
publisherswkly.bsky.social Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Nov 20
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
nilammcgrath.bsky.social
Holy moly, if only our UK politicians were this thoughtful and intelligent. What Mamdani says about the downsides of using the corporate sector to save money is 💯
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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
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November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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newyorker.com
At the Paramount Theatre in downtown Brooklyn, where Zohran Mamdani’s campaign held his Election Night party, attendees seemed to feel the eyes of history on them. Read about Mamdani’s path to victory—and what comes next: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/J6SnuQ
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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sepoy.bsky.social
Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani” (November 4, 2025) www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
Cover of The New Yorker with Zohran!
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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sepoy.bsky.social
the man behind Z’s amazing videos @boringstein.bsky.social
classic auteur style
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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coreyatad.com
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people

this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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generationrent.bsky.social
Our Head of Campaigns, @nyejones92.bsky.social, spoke to Parliament about the damp and mould renters are forced to live in, despite paying skyrocketing rents for their homes.

Watch 👇
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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pagebound.bsky.social
hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂
Lucy with her dog Rooney Jennifer with her cat Binx
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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generationrent.bsky.social
Homes are the foundations of our lives. Evictions shatter those foundations.

Last night the Renters' Rights Act became law, paving the way for the end of S21 evictions.

The Government must bring in the changes ASAP to prevent more renters like Christina experiencing this turmoil.
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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generationrent.bsky.social
The Renters’ Rights Act is NOW LAW!

Soon S21 evictions, which have forced millions of people out of their homes for no reason & with just 2 months notice, will be a thing of the past.

This is what our movement can achieve when we stand together.
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM