Philip Marsh
@misterpalomar.bsky.social
Runs the A Plunge Into Calvino podcast (@aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social). Sometime writer / editor. UEA graduate. The views expressed here are personal, and not that of my employer.
I contributed to the Kickstarter for this!
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I contributed to the Kickstarter for this!
I hate how much I want this just because of how beautiful it is. I would never play it. I can hear the audio on the iPlayer with telesnaps. But look at the colour of that vinyl...
Coming 13th February 2026
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
3 x 140g translucent 'Bernalium Blue' vinyl
The 1968 adventure complete on vinyl for the first time. Starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and introducing Wendy Padbury as Zoe (who also provides narration)
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
3 x 140g translucent 'Bernalium Blue' vinyl
The 1968 adventure complete on vinyl for the first time. Starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and introducing Wendy Padbury as Zoe (who also provides narration)
amzn.to/4o06kFH #ad
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I hate how much I want this just because of how beautiful it is. I would never play it. I can hear the audio on the iPlayer with telesnaps. But look at the colour of that vinyl...
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I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.
Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.
This is on you.
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Here I am on Start The Week talking about the information crisis and how we can TRY to make things better with laws, technology and new social norms
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Here I am on Start The Week talking about the information crisis and how we can TRY to make things better with laws, technology and new social norms
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I read this book this morning and it is as wise and impeccable as everything @naomialderman.bsky.social writes.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I read this book this morning and it is as wise and impeccable as everything @naomialderman.bsky.social writes.
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I know Prometheus gets a lot of stick but how many other films were influenced by both Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter's The Servant and Quatermass & the Pit?
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I know Prometheus gets a lot of stick but how many other films were influenced by both Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter's The Servant and Quatermass & the Pit?
Big new book week this week. Annoyingly I accidentally ordered one to go to my parents' house so it's being forwarded to me, but @naomialderman.bsky.social 's new book has arrived safe and sound. Really looking forward to getting stuck in to this one.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Big new book week this week. Annoyingly I accidentally ordered one to go to my parents' house so it's being forwarded to me, but @naomialderman.bsky.social 's new book has arrived safe and sound. Really looking forward to getting stuck in to this one.
Started watching the new, serious thriller from Kathryn Bigelow. Unfortunately the way the camera is moving in the White House Situation Room is reminding me of The Thick Of It and I keep expecting the characters to give comedy reactions to the news of a missile strike.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Started watching the new, serious thriller from Kathryn Bigelow. Unfortunately the way the camera is moving in the White House Situation Room is reminding me of The Thick Of It and I keep expecting the characters to give comedy reactions to the news of a missile strike.
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My friend Bernadette McBride's debut short story collection 'Birds Are Liars' is released today and a host of top-level writers have provided glowing quotes for it. Believe them and support a debut author if you can by buying a copy.
www.instagram.com/p/DQ46KMyjXQ...
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undefined on Instagram: "picturesofbernadetteWeathering quite a storm lately, so it is an honour to share these generous endorsements from a range of amazin…"
picturesofbernadetteWeathering quite a storm lately, so it is an honour to share these generous endorsements from a range of amazing writers (I am truly honoured!) for my debut short story collection, Birds Are Liars. Funnily enough, one of the characters in the stories becomes a storm! Some of these stories were born from difficult things and times, but as @patrickjameslangley says of my book, I am "equally attuned to the indestructible capacity for tenderness and hope".Birds Are Liars is a sharp, lyrical collection of short stories that confronts the fragility and ferocity of a world in crisis. At once timely and timeless, these stories invite the reader to face the end times with intimacy, rather than look away.THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me on this journey! Twenty short stories inspired by many things, people, moments (I'll be sharing some of these over the coming weeks). Check back for details of a book launch in the new year at @fact_liverpool and a mini book tour...Please feel free to contact me for a reading/book event!Out now on Amazon UK and next week via @barnesandnoble US and pre-order by my publisher. Filtering through to all good bookshops soon.#debut #shortstory #shortstories #fiction #bookreviews #bookgram #writing #writerlife #writer #booksbooksbooks #climatechange
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My friend Bernadette McBride's debut short story collection 'Birds Are Liars' is released today and a host of top-level writers have provided glowing quotes for it. Believe them and support a debut author if you can by buying a copy.
www.instagram.com/p/DQ46KMyjXQ...
www.instagram.com/p/DQ46KMyjXQ...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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#OtD 7 Nov 1913 in Algeria, Nobel-prize-winning author Albert Camus was born. He joined a French resistance cell during WWII and later edited their newspaper. But while opposed to French brutality in Algeria he didn't support an end to colonialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1073...
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#OtD 7 Nov 1913 in Algeria, Nobel-prize-winning author Albert Camus was born. He joined a French resistance cell during WWII and later edited their newspaper. But while opposed to French brutality in Algeria he didn't support an end to colonialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1073...
I haven't seen it but good on @obversebooks.co.uk for working to be accessible to more readers.
At the request of a partially sighted reader, we changed our usual layout for the Senor 105 books, using double spacing, larger font size and a new font Atkinson Hyperlegible to make the text easier to read.
It seems not everyone likes it but if you've seen it, what do you think?
It seems not everyone likes it but if you've seen it, what do you think?
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I haven't seen it but good on @obversebooks.co.uk for working to be accessible to more readers.
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Couldn't go a Noirvember without a least one British example of the genre with another great and slightly forgotten star of it - Stanley Baker stars in Hammer's HELL IS A CITY filmed in Manchester in the at the tail end of the 50s! #TheFilmCrowd this Friday from 9pm! archive.org/details/hell...
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Couldn't go a Noirvember without a least one British example of the genre with another great and slightly forgotten star of it - Stanley Baker stars in Hammer's HELL IS A CITY filmed in Manchester in the at the tail end of the 50s! #TheFilmCrowd this Friday from 9pm! archive.org/details/hell...
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Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
Hey @jayceb.bsky.social - look what I found in a charity shop today. Never seen it. Going in...
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hey @jayceb.bsky.social - look what I found in a charity shop today. Never seen it. Going in...
Made the mistake of looking at the comments underneath the initial reports on the tragedy on the train last night.
Fucking hell there are vile people in the world, spreading hatred against vulnerable people before anything was even known. I'm trying to convince myself they were mostly bots but...
Fucking hell there are vile people in the world, spreading hatred against vulnerable people before anything was even known. I'm trying to convince myself they were mostly bots but...
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Made the mistake of looking at the comments underneath the initial reports on the tragedy on the train last night.
Fucking hell there are vile people in the world, spreading hatred against vulnerable people before anything was even known. I'm trying to convince myself they were mostly bots but...
Fucking hell there are vile people in the world, spreading hatred against vulnerable people before anything was even known. I'm trying to convince myself they were mostly bots but...
Arrived a day late for Halloween but lookimg forward to finally seeing it.
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Arrived a day late for Halloween but lookimg forward to finally seeing it.
The Star Beast - 7.5
Wild Blue Yonder - 9
The Giggle - 8.5
Church on Ruby Rd - 7
Space Babies - 8
The Devil's Chord - 6
Boom! - 7
73 Yards - 8.5
Dot & Bubble - 8.5
Rogue - 7
Legend of Ruby Sunday - 8
Empire of Death - 7
The Christmas Bucephalus - 7*
The Robot Revolution 7.5
Lux - 8.5
The Well - 8.5
Wild Blue Yonder - 9
The Giggle - 8.5
Church on Ruby Rd - 7
Space Babies - 8
The Devil's Chord - 6
Boom! - 7
73 Yards - 8.5
Dot & Bubble - 8.5
Rogue - 7
Legend of Ruby Sunday - 8
Empire of Death - 7
The Christmas Bucephalus - 7*
The Robot Revolution 7.5
Lux - 8.5
The Well - 8.5
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Star Beast - 7.5
Wild Blue Yonder - 9
The Giggle - 8.5
Church on Ruby Rd - 7
Space Babies - 8
The Devil's Chord - 6
Boom! - 7
73 Yards - 8.5
Dot & Bubble - 8.5
Rogue - 7
Legend of Ruby Sunday - 8
Empire of Death - 7
The Christmas Bucephalus - 7*
The Robot Revolution 7.5
Lux - 8.5
The Well - 8.5
Wild Blue Yonder - 9
The Giggle - 8.5
Church on Ruby Rd - 7
Space Babies - 8
The Devil's Chord - 6
Boom! - 7
73 Yards - 8.5
Dot & Bubble - 8.5
Rogue - 7
Legend of Ruby Sunday - 8
Empire of Death - 7
The Christmas Bucephalus - 7*
The Robot Revolution 7.5
Lux - 8.5
The Well - 8.5