Mark Dudley
@markdudley.bsky.social
Author.
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
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All finished - my Rough Sea West Coast linocut #lauraboswell#womeninprint #lauraboswellprintmaker #printmaking #linocut #linoprint #printmaker #printmakerscorner
March 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
All finished - my Rough Sea West Coast linocut #lauraboswell#womeninprint #lauraboswellprintmaker #printmaking #linocut #linoprint #printmaker #printmakerscorner
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English Printmaker Clare Leighton,'Blackbird on Nest', 1935 #WomensArt #Spring
March 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
English Printmaker Clare Leighton,'Blackbird on Nest', 1935 #WomensArt #Spring
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Laura Boswell.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Laura Boswell.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
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Hanging on....
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hanging on....
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
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"The Mirror" The puddle is back! Photo taken in Glastonbury about 45 minutes before sunrise this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"The Mirror" The puddle is back! Photo taken in Glastonbury about 45 minutes before sunrise this morning.
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This supposed traditional artist and musician followed me. Despite having an explicit "fuck ai" in his bio, something about him set off my bullshit detector.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This supposed traditional artist and musician followed me. Despite having an explicit "fuck ai" in his bio, something about him set off my bullshit detector.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
If this is true, it is obscene.
YOU FUCKING WHAT
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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If this is true, it is obscene.
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Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
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Getting a positive review is always a feather in my cap. When the review is from an author, the feather is a bit larger. Getting one from the Pulitzer Prize winner of THE SHIPPING NEWS is like getting the whole darn flock!!
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
March 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Getting a positive review is always a feather in my cap. When the review is from an author, the feather is a bit larger. Getting one from the Pulitzer Prize winner of THE SHIPPING NEWS is like getting the whole darn flock!!
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
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I am shocked at claims that the guy who has a history of singing pro-Nazi songs, was described by his teachers as a neo-fascist, and has made an entire (lucrative) career out of drumming up hatred of foreigners is ... brace yourself Dierdre ... actually racist.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am shocked at claims that the guy who has a history of singing pro-Nazi songs, was described by his teachers as a neo-fascist, and has made an entire (lucrative) career out of drumming up hatred of foreigners is ... brace yourself Dierdre ... actually racist.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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Since we’re apparently talking about people who aren’t the Chancellor as though they are, I’m sure in the interests of unbiased reporting the Telegraph will ‘unveil’ Zack Polanski’s, Ed Davey’s, f*ck it why not, even my plans to fill the economic black hole in the coming days….
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Since we’re apparently talking about people who aren’t the Chancellor as though they are, I’m sure in the interests of unbiased reporting the Telegraph will ‘unveil’ Zack Polanski’s, Ed Davey’s, f*ck it why not, even my plans to fill the economic black hole in the coming days….
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Just for any academics, let me be clear, Hookland is anti-nostalgic. It's an exploration and exorcism of my childhood, not a celebration of falsely remembered sunshine. Nostalgia is a warping gravity.
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Just for any academics, let me be clear, Hookland is anti-nostalgic. It's an exploration and exorcism of my childhood, not a celebration of falsely remembered sunshine. Nostalgia is a warping gravity.
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“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt
How very apt.
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
How very apt.