Jon Courtenay Grimwood
@joncg.bsky.social
Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
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I personally think the responsibility should be to international law but I wasn’t a human rights barrister so what do I know
Starmer asked to respond to Trump breaking international law and seizing the leader of another sovereign nation replies that it is his "responsibility" to have a good relationship with the US President.
"I have stepped up that responsibility [and] I do get on with President Trump," he tells the BBC
"I have stepped up that responsibility [and] I do get on with President Trump," he tells the BBC
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I personally think the responsibility should be to international law but I wasn’t a human rights barrister so what do I know
I'm going to start selling postcards of the hanging...
January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I'm going to start selling postcards of the hanging...
You'd think the Guardian would be able to spell kidnapped...
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
You'd think the Guardian would be able to spell kidnapped...
I see the terrorists are blowing up buildings in foreign countries again.
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I see the terrorists are blowing up buildings in foreign countries again.
File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
Still stands...
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Still stands...
First saw it on a hotel television in New York, in a scuzzy joint just off Times Sq.
(Publishers' travel budgets weren't that big, even back then.)
RIP MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
(Publishers' travel budgets weren't that big, even back then.)
RIP MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheBugglesVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
First saw it on a hotel television in New York, in a scuzzy joint just off Times Sq.
(Publishers' travel budgets weren't that big, even back then.)
RIP MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
(Publishers' travel budgets weren't that big, even back then.)
RIP MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...
I'm an emotionally-stunted Norwegian fisherman, who isn't sure why anything in his life happened the way it did, or if it happened at all, possibly.
I'm a heavily wooded overgrown, deep and winding Cornish ravine
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm an emotionally-stunted Norwegian fisherman, who isn't sure why anything in his life happened the way it did, or if it happened at all, possibly.
Arrested for lacking the right papers? For protesting the slaughter of the innocents? For suggesting Starmer is in hock to Pharisees who've cornered the global market in loaves and fishes?
The public wants to know...
The public wants to know...
December 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Arrested for lacking the right papers? For protesting the slaughter of the innocents? For suggesting Starmer is in hock to Pharisees who've cornered the global market in loaves and fishes?
The public wants to know...
The public wants to know...
Anecdata also suggests writer's conventions are full of people who want to write books
(It helps to have read in the area, have something to say, have put in the grunt work, worked out what you want to write, and why you're the person to write it...
And, even then, it's often/mostly down to luck.)
(It helps to have read in the area, have something to say, have put in the grunt work, worked out what you want to write, and why you're the person to write it...
And, even then, it's often/mostly down to luck.)
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Anecdata also suggests writer's conventions are full of people who want to write books
(It helps to have read in the area, have something to say, have put in the grunt work, worked out what you want to write, and why you're the person to write it...
And, even then, it's often/mostly down to luck.)
(It helps to have read in the area, have something to say, have put in the grunt work, worked out what you want to write, and why you're the person to write it...
And, even then, it's often/mostly down to luck.)
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Happy Christmas to all those celebrating!
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Happy Christmas to all those celebrating!
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
A Mughal virgin and child, by Ghulam Shah Salim before 1605, after an engraving by Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Prince Shah Salim who became the emperor Jahangir 1695–27.
Hive mind (niche):
Does anyone have a good julebolle recipe?
Does anyone have a good julebolle recipe?
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hive mind (niche):
Does anyone have a good julebolle recipe?
Does anyone have a good julebolle recipe?
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File under (much) better late than never...
NEW: David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher after allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women were revealed 🚨
David Walliams dropped by publisher over 'inappropriate behaviour' towards women
www.thenational.scot
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
File under (much) better late than never...
And almost oppressively insulting in its contempt for anyone with photosensitivity or migraine...
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled. www.wired.com/story/phone-...
Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And almost oppressively insulting in its contempt for anyone with photosensitivity or migraine...
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Only if it was through an ouija board. She liked ouija boards.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Only if it was through an ouija board. She liked ouija boards.
As always, a tip of the hat to St Columba, the Irish aristocrat who exiled himself to Scotland after starting a war back home by pirating a book. Until demoted, in favour of St Andrew, he was by default Scotland's saint
#standrewsday
#standrewsday
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As always, a tip of the hat to St Columba, the Irish aristocrat who exiled himself to Scotland after starting a war back home by pirating a book. Until demoted, in favour of St Andrew, he was by default Scotland's saint
#standrewsday
#standrewsday
'I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself...'
Damn.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
He had a good line in cheekbones and louchly-worn coats; wasn't bad with words either.
Damn.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
He had a good line in cheekbones and louchly-worn coats; wasn't bad with words either.
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
'I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself...'
Damn.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
He had a good line in cheekbones and louchly-worn coats; wasn't bad with words either.
Damn.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
He had a good line in cheekbones and louchly-worn coats; wasn't bad with words either.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Reindeer
Baboon
Cobra
White tailed eagle
Giant clam
Reindeer
Baboon
Cobra
White tailed eagle
Giant clam
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Osprey
Eider ducks
Orca
Bald eagle
California sea lion
Osprey
Eider ducks
Orca
Bald eagle
California sea lion
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Reindeer
Baboon
Cobra
White tailed eagle
Giant clam
Reindeer
Baboon
Cobra
White tailed eagle
Giant clam
I feel Caesar and the Senate might have had an opinion on this...
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I feel Caesar and the Senate might have had an opinion on this...
Punching down has turned into a real post-Blair Labour habit.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Punching down has turned into a real post-Blair Labour habit.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
It's not how much tax goes up or doesn't, it's who the changes hit hardest that matters. And freezing the tax thresholds hit the poorest, and the party knows this.
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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
@endofthepier.bsky.social liked the LRB review for your book, and thought the whole piece quite good (you might have different opinions).
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@endofthepier.bsky.social liked the LRB review for your book, and thought the whole piece quite good (you might have different opinions).