Jonathan de Peyer
@jondepeyer.bsky.social
Editorial Director, Non-fiction @HarperNorthUK
📌 The false azure in the windowpane
Not changing the world, one platform at a time.
Purely personal, except when it isn’t.
📌 The false azure in the windowpane
Not changing the world, one platform at a time.
Purely personal, except when it isn’t.
It is my personal opinion that Fraser Nelson looks like he’s complaining you haven’t mowed the verge outside your house this week
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It is my personal opinion that Fraser Nelson looks like he’s complaining you haven’t mowed the verge outside your house this week
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It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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“It was habitual, you know, it happened all the time. He would often be doing Nazi salutes and saying ‘Sieg heil’ and, you know, strutting around the classroom. ... You can’t really defend it as being a joke, or that he was too young to know better. We were 18.” 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 4:13 PM
“It was habitual, you know, it happened all the time. He would often be doing Nazi salutes and saying ‘Sieg heil’ and, you know, strutting around the classroom. ... You can’t really defend it as being a joke, or that he was too young to know better. We were 18.” www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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This Saturday, all welcome.
I'll be signing copies of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners' at the wonderful Waterstones Altrincham on Saturday 22nd November, 5.30-6.30pm. It's the evening when the town's Christmas lights are switched on.
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This Saturday, all welcome.
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This is going to be a fantastic book, and should find a ready audience among those familiar with our country's craggy heart. I'm so proud to be publishing it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
HarperNorth celebrates Peak District anniversary with Tom Chesshyre's new book
HarperNorth has acquired Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park by travel writer Tom Chesshyre.
www.thebookseller.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is going to be a fantastic book, and should find a ready audience among those familiar with our country's craggy heart. I'm so proud to be publishing it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
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Unlike anything you will have read. Catch Ben on Radio 4's Saturday Live tomorrow morning with Adrian Chiles www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
HarperNorth acquires Ben Giles' book on cleaning 'life’s darker moments'
HarperNorth has snapped up The Specialist: How to Clean a Crime Scene and Other Messes by Ben Giles.
www.thebookseller.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Unlike anything you will have read. Catch Ben on Radio 4's Saturday Live tomorrow morning with Adrian Chiles www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
Unlike anything you will have read. Catch Ben on Radio 4's Saturday Live tomorrow morning with Adrian Chiles www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
HarperNorth acquires Ben Giles' book on cleaning 'life’s darker moments'
HarperNorth has snapped up The Specialist: How to Clean a Crime Scene and Other Messes by Ben Giles.
www.thebookseller.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Unlike anything you will have read. Catch Ben on Radio 4's Saturday Live tomorrow morning with Adrian Chiles www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Important conversation about how vile the racist rhetoric is becoming around the mainstream Right in Britain. Absolutely white ethnostate trash.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-fara...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner
Hope not Hate's CEO Nick Lowles says Reform's rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Important conversation about how vile the racist rhetoric is becoming around the mainstream Right in Britain. Absolutely white ethnostate trash.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-fara...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-fara...
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🌹 Here are seven exciting breakthroughs and announcements the government made this week that you can use - whether you're on the doorstep, sparring on Twitter or debating in the pub
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the papers were awash with Budget speculation, there was plenty of tangible progress towards renewing…
labourlist.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🌹 Here are seven exciting breakthroughs and announcements the government made this week that you can use - whether you're on the doorstep, sparring on Twitter or debating in the pub
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Very few victims are told about restorative justice - an opportunity for the victim and the offender to share with each other how the crime has affected them - despite evidence in reducing reoffending.
Jacob Dunne is leading a very important campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jacob Dunne is leading a very important campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nottingham one-punch killer leads restorative justice campaign
Campaigners say fewer than 1 in 20 crime victims are told about the scheme.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Very few victims are told about restorative justice - an opportunity for the victim and the offender to share with each other how the crime has affected them - despite evidence in reducing reoffending.
Jacob Dunne is leading a very important campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jacob Dunne is leading a very important campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is an extraordinary interview. You can read more about Jacob's story in his HarperNorth book www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Wrong-...
Radical with Amol Rajan - A Fatal Punch: Why I Met the Parents of the Man I Killed (Jacob Dunne) - BBC Sounds
Jacob Dunne killed a man with a single punch. Now he campaigns for restorative justice.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is an extraordinary interview. You can read more about Jacob's story in his HarperNorth book www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Wrong-...
This is going to be a fantastic book, and should find a ready audience among those familiar with our country's craggy heart. I'm so proud to be publishing it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
HarperNorth celebrates Peak District anniversary with Tom Chesshyre's new book
HarperNorth has acquired Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park by travel writer Tom Chesshyre.
www.thebookseller.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is going to be a fantastic book, and should find a ready audience among those familiar with our country's craggy heart. I'm so proud to be publishing it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
Not now ghost cat
Rare white Iberian lynx captured on film in Spain by amateur photographer
Researchers to investigate whether environmental factors may have affected female animal’s pigmentation
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Not now ghost cat
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It will possibly clash with Antiques Roadshow, but if you happen to be in Glasgow on November 16th, please do come along and listen to me and the marvellous
@peteralanross.bsky.social talk Sundays at Aye Write:
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/sund...
@peteralanross.bsky.social talk Sundays at Aye Write:
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/sund...
Sunday Best: Daniel Gray - Glasgow Life
Sunday Best: Daniel Gray
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It will possibly clash with Antiques Roadshow, but if you happen to be in Glasgow on November 16th, please do come along and listen to me and the marvellous
@peteralanross.bsky.social talk Sundays at Aye Write:
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/sund...
@peteralanross.bsky.social talk Sundays at Aye Write:
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/sund...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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“To be honest, I think things are worse now than in 1979,” he says. “Clearly, there was a lot more racial violence then than there is now, but it’s coming back. What’s worse now is that the rhetoric of the extreme far right is not too dissimilar from the rhetoric across the political spectrum.”
Nick Lowles, the fighter of hate who hid from the sun
As a child in the National Front’s heyday, fear made HOPE not Hate’s CEO try to conceal his origins. Now he says tensions are worse than they were in 1979
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“To be honest, I think things are worse now than in 1979,” he says. “Clearly, there was a lot more racial violence then than there is now, but it’s coming back. What’s worse now is that the rhetoric of the extreme far right is not too dissimilar from the rhetoric across the political spectrum.”
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How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Lowles’ prescription against the far right at the national and international levels is: better democracy, stronger democratic institutions, and reversing the loss of social capital at the grassroots.
He is surely correct.
www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
He is surely correct.
www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
This is how we defeat Britain’s far right - The Jewish Chronicle
A welcome guide on combatting extremism from a figure who can draw on decades of hard-won street-level experience doing exactly that
www.thejc.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Lowles’ prescription against the far right at the national and international levels is: better democracy, stronger democratic institutions, and reversing the loss of social capital at the grassroots.
He is surely correct.
www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
He is surely correct.
www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
This morning in ‘the old ways aren’t necessarily the best’ news.
Scientists are finding out how coffee beans are transformed when they pass through the guts of Asian palm civets in the hope of replicating the process without using animals
Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink
Scientists are finding out how coffee beans are transformed when they pass through the guts of Asian palm civets in the hope of replicating the process without using animals
www.newscientist.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This morning in ‘the old ways aren’t necessarily the best’ news.
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For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
Has anyone considered the possibility that Trump might actually be building his own mausoleum where the East Wing was?
October 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Has anyone considered the possibility that Trump might actually be building his own mausoleum where the East Wing was?
Kate has been a fantastic ally to, and advocate for, HarperNorth from the get-go. She has a razor-sharp mind and I feel in very safe hands.
Kate Elton has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins UK, following an interim period 👇 #BookSky
Kate Elton confirmed as HarperCollins UK CEO
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Kate has been a fantastic ally to, and advocate for, HarperNorth from the get-go. She has a razor-sharp mind and I feel in very safe hands.
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Which book sold 27,000 copies in 30 mins? Which was "a pure pig to write"? Who started planning how to spend the money - then didn't win? Who deemed his own books "pompously moralistic"? What judge called the prize "crooked nonsense"?
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
The Booker Prize in the 1990s: 10 novels that are well worth revisiting | The Booker Prizes
The last decade of the 20th century saw A.S. Byatt, Roddy Doyle and J.M. Coetzee win the Booker, but there are many other shortlisted titles that modern readers should seek out
thebookerprizes.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Which book sold 27,000 copies in 30 mins? Which was "a pure pig to write"? Who started planning how to spend the money - then didn't win? Who deemed his own books "pompously moralistic"? What judge called the prize "crooked nonsense"?
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s: