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Aikiman
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Jack of many instruments, master of none. Proud to be a woke lefty. Forged by the miners strike, punk, heavy metal and my local library.
Today’s tube read is cancelled due to overcrowding 😔 #booksky #tubereads
July 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Today’s holiday read. Unashamed fantasy! The lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. A darker homage to Fritz Leiber’s Grey Mouser. A rattling good swashbuckling yarn. #fantasybooks #booksky
June 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Is there a word for the joy of introducing someone to a favourite book and them loving it too? I feel we have too few words describing the pleasures of books. Either that or I need educating in them! #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
No tube book today but a holiday book. Hoorah!
Haven’t been able to put it down - Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Beautifully written fantasy, reads like a classic novel and a page turner to boot. #holidayreads #fantasybooks #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
May 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Today’s tube read; a truly great author. Read this back to back with Cannery Row to see why. ‘All human life is here’
#booksky #tubereads
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Today’s tube read. On a lovely sunny day in London, what better than a bucolic H.E.Bates tale. #Booksky #tubereads
May 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The Have Your Say survey about the future of the BBC is invite only, to people with BBC accounts.

Please take a few minutes to fill it out if you can, and ask them to keep doing everything they do well.

#DefendTheBBC

click.e.bbcmail.co.uk?qs=e0d08f509...
Our BBC, Our Future - The BBC - Send - BBC
click.e.bbcmail.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
IMHO one of the greatest sword and sorcery books ever. Fantastical yet realistic, comical yet with a dark brooding menace. How wizards should be!
#booksky #swordsandsorcery
May 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Planning (and buying) my ‘holiday reads’. First on the list is a book I’ve always wanted to read but never got round to it. Love a bit of swords and sorcery 😁 #booksky #holidayreads
May 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today’s tube read. Magnificent and terrifying. One of the best books I’ve read about the human psyche #booksky
May 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today’s tube read. The British version of Machiavelli’s The Prince or Sun Tzu’s TheArt of War. A comic classic.
#booksky #currentlyreading
April 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Today’s tube read. Love this book. It’s up there with Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. #booksky #tuberead
April 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hi America, is this still a thing? Asking for a few friends.
March 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today’s tube read. Love a bit of Hornblower ❤️
#booksky
March 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
So pleased with yesterday’s purchase from The Keel Row Books. 6 replace books I used to have but gave away. 2 new reads. Happy place 😁

Which would you read first? #booksky
March 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Back home for a weekend. Barter books at Alnwick get all the press but I also love Keel Row Books at Whitley Bay ❤️ #booksky
March 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Today’s tube read - beautifully grotesque #booksky
March 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Football’s gannin’ hyem 😍
Our time. #wedontdoquiet
YouTube video by Newcastle United
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March 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I can't be the only one who wants to scream StFU every time I hear a #COnservative bemoaning what the current government is doing.

Do these people have no respect? Do these people not remeber the ruin that they caused to this country?

www.gbnews.com/politics/bri...
'It's a wrecking ball!' Bridget Phillipson's education reforms torn apart by shadow secretary: 'They are damaging'
The Education Secretary has promised to 'breathe new life' into what she describes as an 'outdated curriculum'
www.gbnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Brick Lane, London E1
March 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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The richest 3 people have more money than the poorest 4 billion.

But the problem (according to those richest people) is the poor people.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The right-wing press pushed a false narrative against ending the private school tax break…  
 
Will they now issue a correction…?
 
They run the same narrative against a wealth tax... it’s equally false.
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
‘We must end this fight!’ shouts man repeatedly punching his opponent
Yes but….

President Putin says he agrees fighting in Ukraine must end but says any plan must lead to 'enduring peace' and ‘ and remove the underlying causes of this crisis"
March 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Today’s tube read
#booksky #penguin
March 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM