Adrian Raffill
@aidyraff.bsky.social
Chief Wordwrangler at Caversham Writers - https://cavershamwriters.substack.com/
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January 25, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading.
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
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#BookSky
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
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#BookSky
Fourbears Fest 26
The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns
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January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading.
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading.
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
Fourbears Fest 26
The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I already have my tickets to see @robinince.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @mjarlidge.bsky.social at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading.
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
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Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
BOARD OF PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
BOARD OF PEACE
January 22, 2026 at 10:46 AM
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
BOARD OF PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
BOARD OF PEACE
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Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable
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TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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I've had enough.
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I've had enough.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."
"Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"It pulls at my clothing and sometimes I feel I've got to pick it up, cuddle and kiss it."
"It pulls at my clothing and sometimes I feel I've got to pick it up, cuddle and kiss it."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
'In the evening we had a dance'.
'In the evening we had a dance'.
January 21, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."
"Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."
Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo.
I will be taking no further questions at this point.
I will be taking no further questions at this point.
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo.
I will be taking no further questions at this point.
I will be taking no further questions at this point.
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Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste? @breakthroughbook.bsky.social
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#booksky
January 13, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste? @breakthroughbook.bsky.social
#booksky
#booksky
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So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
January 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM
So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
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Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.
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Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.
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My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one!
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Authors hit with 'deluge' of scam emails from fake marketers offering paid promotion
Authors are being hit with a "deluge" of scam emails, some of which appear to impersonate industry professionals, marketing agencies and famous authors.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one!
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Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping?
Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further…
#booksky #giftsforbookworms
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further…
#booksky #giftsforbookworms
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping?
Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further…
#booksky #giftsforbookworms
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further…
#booksky #giftsforbookworms
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
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Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!
This isn’t just the BBC censoring an opinion, as objectionable as that would be. This is the BBC censoring an historical fact. There is a mountain of evidence to back up this claim.
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 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!
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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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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"