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Maria is one of those artists whose work sustains and inspires Hookland.
I have placed a few sets of Hookland Bookmark on my online shop.
* Please note, these are for UK shipping only *
I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then.
www.maria-strutz.co.uk/product/book...
* Please note, these are for UK shipping only *
I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then.
www.maria-strutz.co.uk/product/book...
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Maria is one of those artists whose work sustains and inspires Hookland.
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Six months ago I stopped half-arsing my writing and started treating it like something that mattered.
This is a small, slightly hungover State of the Bear, and a very real thank you to the people who made it possible - you guys.
🐻🍷
This is a small, slightly hungover State of the Bear, and a very real thank you to the people who made it possible - you guys.
🐻🍷
Six Months In: A State of the Bear Update
An end-of-year thank you to the people who made this possible
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Six months ago I stopped half-arsing my writing and started treating it like something that mattered.
This is a small, slightly hungover State of the Bear, and a very real thank you to the people who made it possible - you guys.
🐻🍷
This is a small, slightly hungover State of the Bear, and a very real thank you to the people who made it possible - you guys.
🐻🍷
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In the 1930s, the U.S. tried to bully the world. Here’s the story of how Canada resisted… by simply being boring. #cdnpoli #tariffs
youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...
youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...
The Case for Boring
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In the 1930s, the U.S. tried to bully the world. Here’s the story of how Canada resisted… by simply being boring. #cdnpoli #tariffs
youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...
youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...
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Delighted to hear that this is being properly republished. I was proud to give a quote for this. It's a lovely, profoundly moving book.
My former Unbound book ‘A Hundred Years to Arras’ is being re-released by Wilton Square on 9th April 2026. This so happens to be the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Arras, which is central to the story. It’s also being released in the US in August. Pre order!
www.waterstones.com/book/a-hundr...
www.waterstones.com/book/a-hundr...
A Hundred Years to Arras by Jason Cobley | Waterstones
Buy A Hundred Years to Arras by Jason Cobley from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Delighted to hear that this is being properly republished. I was proud to give a quote for this. It's a lovely, profoundly moving book.
Did a sort of saltim bocca tonight, pork loin steak wrapped in San Daniele with a pan gravy of Noily, butter & chopped sage.
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Did a sort of saltim bocca tonight, pork loin steak wrapped in San Daniele with a pan gravy of Noily, butter & chopped sage.
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Coming next November 12 - 15th, 2026. And, even though we say so ourselves, this is going to be spectacular!
The preparation for Venice Noir 2026 is now under way. We promised you bigger, better and bolder. Watch this space! November 12 to 15 2026 in some of the most iconic locations in the world's most beautiful city.
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Coming next November 12 - 15th, 2026. And, even though we say so ourselves, this is going to be spectacular!
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These are a few of my favourite words …
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
These are a few of my favourite words …
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the lovely team at roccos doggy daycare sent Henry home with a christmas goodie bag and told me he made his tree decoration himself, and I must say his writing really has come on this year
Jonn Elledge on Instagram: "the lovely team at @roccosdoggydaycare sent Henry home with a christmas goodie bag and told me he made his tree decoration himself, and I must say his writing really has co...
21 likes, 1 comments - jonnelledge on December 16, 2025: "the lovely team at @roccosdoggydaycare sent Henry home with a christmas goodie bag and told me he made his tree decoration himself, and I must...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
the lovely team at roccos doggy daycare sent Henry home with a christmas goodie bag and told me he made his tree decoration himself, and I must say his writing really has come on this year
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Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
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If your “special relationship” involves lawsuits, threats, and conditional investment, you might not be special, just… exposed.
On Brexit, leverage, Trump tactics and learning the hard way that when you exit the tent, sometimes a bigger, bullier country will come urinate all over you.
On Brexit, leverage, Trump tactics and learning the hard way that when you exit the tent, sometimes a bigger, bullier country will come urinate all over you.
Brexit: How We Found Ourselves Outside the Tent, Getting Pissed On
From a $5bn lawsuit against the BBC to a stalled £31bn tech deal, this is what “going it alone” looks like when your biggest ally starts turning the tables
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If your “special relationship” involves lawsuits, threats, and conditional investment, you might not be special, just… exposed.
On Brexit, leverage, Trump tactics and learning the hard way that when you exit the tent, sometimes a bigger, bullier country will come urinate all over you.
On Brexit, leverage, Trump tactics and learning the hard way that when you exit the tent, sometimes a bigger, bullier country will come urinate all over you.
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Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
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Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the end of the Pax Americana, yesterday in Munich, Germany.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the end of the Pax Americana, yesterday in Munich, Germany.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
“Dear friends, the decades of the Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany, as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that.
PIE! Steak & mushroom with a thin suet crust (thanks to Fergus Henderson for the recipe). The steak & mushrooms spent all day in the slow-cooker with this beauty of a stout. Made enough for Monday.
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
PIE! Steak & mushroom with a thin suet crust (thanks to Fergus Henderson for the recipe). The steak & mushrooms spent all day in the slow-cooker with this beauty of a stout. Made enough for Monday.
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You can keep your TED Talks. The real shiz is at the Charlton Society, St Luke’s Church, 21 November 2026.
Really excited to be getting to speak to an audience including one former prime minister. (He’s dead. He doesn’t have much choice in the matter.)
Really excited to be getting to speak to an audience including one former prime minister. (He’s dead. He doesn’t have much choice in the matter.)
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You can keep your TED Talks. The real shiz is at the Charlton Society, St Luke’s Church, 21 November 2026.
Really excited to be getting to speak to an audience including one former prime minister. (He’s dead. He doesn’t have much choice in the matter.)
Really excited to be getting to speak to an audience including one former prime minister. (He’s dead. He doesn’t have much choice in the matter.)
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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
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A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
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" PM still terrified of touching Europe despite a historic public appetite for closer EU ties grows...
* Your Party continues its amoeba-like fragmentation
* Trump openly hints at abandoning Ukraine while attacking Europe.
& as for Lettuce Liz, oh my...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
* Your Party continues its amoeba-like fragmentation
* Trump openly hints at abandoning Ukraine while attacking Europe.
& as for Lettuce Liz, oh my...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Pecksniff: Majority opposing Brexit reaches eight million: when will ministers find a backbone?
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
" PM still terrified of touching Europe despite a historic public appetite for closer EU ties grows...
* Your Party continues its amoeba-like fragmentation
* Trump openly hints at abandoning Ukraine while attacking Europe.
& as for Lettuce Liz, oh my...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
* Your Party continues its amoeba-like fragmentation
* Trump openly hints at abandoning Ukraine while attacking Europe.
& as for Lettuce Liz, oh my...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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This is the scoop for which @lewisgoodall.com and the News Agents team won their award
Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story.
The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
The secret court that silenced the News Agents...until now
YouTube video by The News Agents
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is the scoop for which @lewisgoodall.com and the News Agents team won their award
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Scriptorium is fantastic and a perfect game to play over the xmas break.
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️
If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Scriptorium is fantastic and a perfect game to play over the xmas break.
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The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas