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Nick Hubble
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Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️.
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 26d
My essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the #BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and @speculativeinsight.bsky.social have very kindly made it free to read for the voting period. So please read to find out about the significance of #Galadriel being the Fairy Queen.
Should Galadriel have taken the Ring? — Speculative Insight
The Fourth Age under the dominion of men isn’t going too well, is it? Did the free peoples of Middle-earth really combine to overthrow Sauron so that the world would be delivered on a plate to the lik...
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 5h
No. 65. Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year (1936). I have been unavoidably reminded of this novel by the high-profile emergence of an unabashedly fascist political party in Britain (i.e. Restore). In the Second Year imagines the banal evil of a Fascist regime taking control of England in 1940. 3/-
Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year (1936) as SF Text
This is the third instalment – and again it is very much a few notes yet to be formed into a coherent argument – in an occasional series, which began with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as SF…
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
All seven volumes to date in the #MassObservation Critical Series @massobscritical.bsky.social are also currently at attractive prices in the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social sale until Sunday @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
The Mass-Observation Critical Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) - Bloomsbury
The Mass-Observation Critical Series pairs innovative interdisciplinary scholarship with rich archival materials from the original Mass-Observation movement and…
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
'The 2010s is the concluding volume of the Decades Series. Although novels will continue to be written and read in the UK, there are good reasons for thinking that future fiction written in Britain is unlikely to have the same cultural signification within national life as over the past century.'
thehubble101.bsky.social Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction is currently available on the Bloomsbury website at a 30 per cent discount price of £20.29 until Sunday night. This is a flash sale across most Bloomsbury books.
The 2010s
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,…
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction is currently available on the Bloomsbury website at a 30 per cent discount price of £20.29 until Sunday night. This is a flash sale across most Bloomsbury books.
The 2010s
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 1d
There's a new Briardene Book coming! The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be out on 2 April. Read more, and pre-order, here: briardenebooks.uk/2026/02/17/t...
The Recollections by Christopher Priest: Pre-Orders and Events
Briardene’s next book, The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be published on Thursday 2 April!
briardenebooks.uk

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d
The Player of Games and Against a Dark Background would make a nice combination for a comparative read.
joachimboaz.bsky.social Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d
Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Player of Games. A craft zips towards buildings over a waterfall. Cover for Against a Dark Background. Woman looks over rail at a complex set of machines.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d
*facepalm*
Government cancels plan to delay local council elections in England
Polls in 30 areas had been due to be postponed as part of the government’s shake-up of English councils
www.theguardian.com

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 2d
💙📚 Pick up one of our bestsellers! This week only, enjoy 30% off print books and 40% off ebooks.

Shop now: https://bit.ly/4rkF734

#Nonfiction #BookSale

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d
Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Player of Games. A craft zips towards buildings over a waterfall. Cover for Against a Dark Background. Woman looks over rail at a complex set of machines.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 2d
New C21Literature @c21literature.bsky.social special issue: “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...
Cover of C21 Literature, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2026), titled The Century at 25.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d
Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 9 – People and Peoples
After a little yuletide gap of mulling things over (or loafing about eating cheese, delete as appropriate), Ed and I have come back to our The Lord of the Rings reread, picking up now with The Two …
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 3d
There was quite a lot of snow at the cyclocross in Brussels today.

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Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social · 3d
A Projection on the latest Norstat poll in Scotland:

🎗️ SNP — 59
🌹 Lab — 19
🌳 Con — 11
🌱 GP — 11
🐤 LD — 6
➡️ Ref — 23

@devolvedelections.bsky.social

devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/
Chart showing results stated in tweet

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d
One of my all time favourite writers.
joachimboaz.bsky.social Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 4d
Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Woman with earring looks at the expanses of the cosmos. Cover for Escape Plans. Woman with a cybernetic brain looks across an urban expanse.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 4d
New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.

I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.
Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now
In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d
Difficult to predict and anti-Reform voters may leave it late to choose between Green and Labour. But my guess is that Green will win.

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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 4d
Some BSFA Award nominees for your consideration
Especially art and shorter pieces.
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d
It reads like that to me.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 4d
Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Woman with earring looks at the expanses of the cosmos. Cover for Escape Plans. Woman with a cybernetic brain looks across an urban expanse.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d
'Admitting the Americans may come across as a little direct and urgent, he said this was only because the US was profoundly concerned by the fate of Europe, and knew their destinies were intertwined.' This is basically grooming.
Rubio tells Europe US wants renewed alliance – but on Trump’s terms
Secretary of state calls the US ‘a child of Europe’ and urges continent to back a new world order
www.theguardian.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4d
Any politician using the Cass Review to justify anything is dishonest, especially Bridget Phillipson.

It is un-peer-reviewed pseudoscience that has been, & will continue to be, discredited by multiple peer-reviewed publications all of which have more credibility than Cass.

These are listed here;
Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review
(In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans childre...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 4d
In what universe are universities dominated by women? I worked in academia my whole life & experienced plenty of sexism but this level of misogyny is beyond: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments
Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check
www.theguardian.com

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 5d
Absolutely everything is going on this week and it becomes easy to lose track of the relentless grinding of the authoritarian British state amidst the noise. But they are pursuing a hardline anti-trans agenda. We need to keep fighting back. I have just donated to GLP. Please do so too.
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d
Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go.

If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d
Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go.

If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 5d
Far right and anti-trans activism on UK campuses supported by Russian- and Hungarian-funded networks.

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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 5d
This sort of thing is also why Labour are unpopular: entrenching xenophobic Brexit Britain: 'The EU citizens’ campaign group The 3 million called for a low-cost, one-off travel authorisation similar to one in Canada in place of the £589 certificate currently available.'
Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport
New border controls require ‘certificate of entitlement’ to attach to second nationality passport that costs £589
www.theguardian.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d
& here’s @thehubble101.bsky.social on GAY HUNTER
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Road to Glasgow 2024: Gay Hunter by J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) (Polygon 1989) – originally published in 1934.
Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to this year’s WorldCon. (I should note that I’m going to continue the series after the Worldcon – ‘The Road from Glasgow 2024’!! – as there…
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d
Here’s @thehubble101.bsky.social on THREE GO BACK …
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Road to Glasgow 2024: Three Go Back by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Polygon 1995) – originally published in 1932 as Three Go Back by J. Leslie Mitchell.
Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to this year’s WorldCon. (I should note that I’m going to continue the series after the Worldcon – ‘The Road from Glasgow 2024’!! – as there…
prospectiveculture.wordpress.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d
Just thought of 2 books by James Leslie Mitchell, better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon: THREE GO BACK (an airship travels 25,000 years into the past) and GAY HUNTER (a young, female, American archaeologist & two ghastly English fascists are flung 20,000 years forward into a post-apocalyptic future)…

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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 5d
James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.
The Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre