Jonathan D. Beer
@jonathandbeer.bsky.social
Sci-fi writer. Freelance author for Black Library. He/him. All views are my own.
Pick up my latest novel, TOMB WORLD, out now!
Pick up my latest novel, TOMB WORLD, out now!
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I've just spotted that KING OF THE SPOIL has tipped over 200 ratings on Goodreads, DOMINION GENESIS is at 199, and TOMB WORLD is sitting on 90.
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
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There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
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I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
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Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision
My naked pandering achieved its goal - DOMINION GENESIS has now cracked 200 ratings on Goodreads.
My thanks, whoever you are!
My thanks, whoever you are!
February 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
My naked pandering achieved its goal - DOMINION GENESIS has now cracked 200 ratings on Goodreads.
My thanks, whoever you are!
My thanks, whoever you are!
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🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled
Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
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Some of these houses may well become museums.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Some of these houses may well become museums.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Project Orion was a bad idea that inspired plenty of sci-fi in its heyday. While science has moved on, @r-emrys.bsky.social looks back at Freeman Dyson's original concept as a potential source of new and exciting speculative stories!
Not in My Atmosphere! — The Pitfalls of Project Orion - Reactor
Can a terrible idea for spaceship propulsion inspire exciting new science fiction?
reactormag.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Project Orion was a bad idea that inspired plenty of sci-fi in its heyday. While science has moved on, @r-emrys.bsky.social looks back at Freeman Dyson's original concept as a potential source of new and exciting speculative stories!
"Mandelson’s treachery is an extreme instance of the dominant mode of UK politics over the past 45 years: the subordination of democracy to the demands of the ultra-rich."
“There is a reason why Mandelson kept returning to government, despite sackings for his over-enthusiastic relationships with plutocrats. He was brought in to do the dirty work. The governments in which he served could loudly claim to be doing something, while subtly and simultaneously undoing it.”
Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
"Mandelson’s treachery is an extreme instance of the dominant mode of UK politics over the past 45 years: the subordination of democracy to the demands of the ultra-rich."
I've just spotted that KING OF THE SPOIL has tipped over 200 ratings on Goodreads, DOMINION GENESIS is at 199, and TOMB WORLD is sitting on 90.
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I've just spotted that KING OF THE SPOIL has tipped over 200 ratings on Goodreads, DOMINION GENESIS is at 199, and TOMB WORLD is sitting on 90.
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
My thanks to everyone who has sat down with one (or more!) of my books, and even more so if you've dropped a star rating or a review. It's all appreciated!
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Anyway I'll be writing to Reform later to demand that they let me speak at their conference on the main stage.
If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech
If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Anyway I'll be writing to Reform later to demand that they let me speak at their conference on the main stage.
If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech
If they refuse me they'll be showing themselves to be enemies of free speech
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The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Away and shite, McSweeney.
You won the lowest vote share of any govt since the war with the genius strategy of "not being the Tory Party", presided over a ferocious attack on the Left, and decided that the best way to see off Reform was to wholly adopt their policies.
Starmer needs to follow him.
You won the lowest vote share of any govt since the war with the genius strategy of "not being the Tory Party", presided over a ferocious attack on the Left, and decided that the best way to see off Reform was to wholly adopt their policies.
Starmer needs to follow him.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has resigned from government following the revelations about Peter Mandelson in the Epstein files.
Full story: politi.co/4ttOa3i
Full story: politi.co/4ttOa3i
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Away and shite, McSweeney.
You won the lowest vote share of any govt since the war with the genius strategy of "not being the Tory Party", presided over a ferocious attack on the Left, and decided that the best way to see off Reform was to wholly adopt their policies.
Starmer needs to follow him.
You won the lowest vote share of any govt since the war with the genius strategy of "not being the Tory Party", presided over a ferocious attack on the Left, and decided that the best way to see off Reform was to wholly adopt their policies.
Starmer needs to follow him.
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Starmer's statement thanks McSweeney for "turning the party around after one of the worst defeats in its history".
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
February 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Starmer's statement thanks McSweeney for "turning the party around after one of the worst defeats in its history".
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
Although, who to replace him? Streeting is no bloody better, and Burnham's barred. Before she became Deputy PM to Starmer I'd have said Angela Rayner, but to be honest I have no idea. Hopefully whoever it is will have learned the lesson that you can't out-right the right of British politics.
February 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Although, who to replace him? Streeting is no bloody better, and Burnham's barred. Before she became Deputy PM to Starmer I'd have said Angela Rayner, but to be honest I have no idea. Hopefully whoever it is will have learned the lesson that you can't out-right the right of British politics.
Some pretty bleak quotes for Starmer in here, from Labour ministers, former ministers, and sitting MPs.
Whether he goes now or not, he has shown staggeringly poor judgement in every possible area since he won the election (on the lowest vote share since WW2). Can't believe he'll hang on past May.
Whether he goes now or not, he has shown staggeringly poor judgement in every possible area since he won the election (on the lowest vote share since WW2). Can't believe he'll hang on past May.
EXC:
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
Keir Starmer apologises to victims of Jeffrey Epstein
UK prime minister faces criticism from Labour MPs but insists he is not about to quit
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Some pretty bleak quotes for Starmer in here, from Labour ministers, former ministers, and sitting MPs.
Whether he goes now or not, he has shown staggeringly poor judgement in every possible area since he won the election (on the lowest vote share since WW2). Can't believe he'll hang on past May.
Whether he goes now or not, he has shown staggeringly poor judgement in every possible area since he won the election (on the lowest vote share since WW2). Can't believe he'll hang on past May.
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“The vast majority of people I met . . . consider our appointment of Peter Mandelson an unnecessary provocation. Several people showed me a photograph of him blowing out the birthday candles with Jeffrey Epstein...Withdraw Peter Mandelson. He is the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
“The vast majority of people I met . . . consider our appointment of Peter Mandelson an unnecessary provocation. Several people showed me a photograph of him blowing out the birthday candles with Jeffrey Epstein...Withdraw Peter Mandelson. He is the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.”
I was thinking about this this morning. My suspicion is that the two are inextricably linked, and even if Starmer had the backbone to throw McSweeney overboard (uncertain) it's unclear whether he'd would go quietly, nor if he'd be enough to satisfy Labour MPs who can see 2029 coming to meet them.
“Getting rid of Morgan is our only way back..." why many Labour MPs now think McSweeney's exit is the only way to save Starmer's leadership and why some think it will just bring the Prime Minister down too
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/05/p...
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/05/p...
Peter Mandelson's Downfall Puts Morgan McSweeney's Future in Doubt
Keir Starmer insists he is sticking by his chief adviser in the wake of the Mandelson scandal, but others have their doubts, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:40 AM
I was thinking about this this morning. My suspicion is that the two are inextricably linked, and even if Starmer had the backbone to throw McSweeney overboard (uncertain) it's unclear whether he'd would go quietly, nor if he'd be enough to satisfy Labour MPs who can see 2029 coming to meet them.
I wonder if politicians realise how stupid they will sound when these sound-bites are put in front of them. Or are they all doing a Churchill impression and imagining themselves to be more impressive than they are.
"I will stop at nothing..." *jowls quivering* "Fight them on the beaches..."
"I will stop at nothing..." *jowls quivering* "Fight them on the beaches..."
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 AM
I wonder if politicians realise how stupid they will sound when these sound-bites are put in front of them. Or are they all doing a Churchill impression and imagining themselves to be more impressive than they are.
"I will stop at nothing..." *jowls quivering* "Fight them on the beaches..."
"I will stop at nothing..." *jowls quivering* "Fight them on the beaches..."
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Naah, I want them on trial.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Naah, I want them on trial.
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This will generate twenty times more electricity than the previous wind farm on the same area. The dismantled turbines had operated for 32 years. In every one of those years the Greens were told that they are well meaning but foolish to think that renewable electricity is viable.
Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO
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Last turbine on first commercial wind farm dismantled
The last wind turbine of what was Ireland's first commercial wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo has been dismantled.
buff.ly
February 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This will generate twenty times more electricity than the previous wind farm on the same area. The dismantled turbines had operated for 32 years. In every one of those years the Greens were told that they are well meaning but foolish to think that renewable electricity is viable.