Andrew Furlow
@andrewfurlow.bsky.social
Book publishing person, formerly of Harper North, @iconbooks & @greystonebooks
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I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival
When I walked into the hotel lobby the first person I saw was a woman with enormous lips wearing a T-shirt that said BAN ASSAULT VACCINES. Wow, Austin really has changed, I thought. I used to come …
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November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote about the anti-vax conference that was taking place at my hotel during the Texas Book Festival. lithub.com/amid-the-mah...
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Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
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Well said @stuhennigan.bsky.social. @robinince.bsky.social your work is a shining light and really helps people, not many can say that
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three points I keep repeating
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist
2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis
3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated
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So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Amazing work this!
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Amazing work this!
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The planet is dying. I know the fight against fascism feels so acute, but there will be nothing left to fight for if we don't bring these longer term challenges. Please - will you support our climate litigation?
We’re working with @glanlaw.bsky.social and our claimants SOS UK, @tippingpointuk.bsky.social and Save Hemsby Coastline to challenge the UK government.
Starmer’s climate framework is so full of holes that it breaches our right to family life. Support our challenge here:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Starmer’s climate framework is so full of holes that it breaches our right to family life. Support our challenge here:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik
Make Keir Starmer step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The planet is dying. I know the fight against fascism feels so acute, but there will be nothing left to fight for if we don't bring these longer term challenges. Please - will you support our climate litigation?
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I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w...
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w...
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
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We all need publishers like Salt. Please share and support if you can.
We need your help. 💙 Salt is fighting to keep indie publishing alive — discovering new writers, nurturing voices that matter. Every pound helps us publish more books. Please donate or share today. #SupportIndie #KeepBooksAlive #Books #Writers #IndiePress
Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
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October 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We all need publishers like Salt. Please share and support if you can.
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‘When Asa Briggs left school, there were only fifty thousand university students in the whole of Britain. Today, to a substantial degree because of Briggs’s campaigns and ideas, there are more than three million in higher education.’
Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Ascherson · Professor Heathrow: Asa Briggs says yes
Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well as...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘When Asa Briggs left school, there were only fifty thousand university students in the whole of Britain. Today, to a substantial degree because of Briggs’s campaigns and ideas, there are more than three million in higher education.’
Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Congratulations @profilebooks.bsky.social !
László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Congratulations @profilebooks.bsky.social !
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I'm planning to set up a food delivery business, but don't want to pay the people who make the food. If they won't give me free food, they'll kill my business.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm planning to set up a food delivery business, but don't want to pay the people who make the food. If they won't give me free food, they'll kill my business.
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Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn
Very pleased to have acquired this for HarperNorth in my time there - it’s an incredibly important and powerful book, of course, but also one written with verve and great imaginative energy by Bill. Coming atcha in May next year:
I can now reveal that my next book will be published by HarperNorth (HarperCollins)
The Fate of the World: a Deep-Time History of the Climate Crisis will be out in hardback in May 2026
@HarperNorthUK @harpercollins.bsky.social
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
The Fate of the World: a Deep-Time History of the Climate Crisis will be out in hardback in May 2026
@HarperNorthUK @harpercollins.bsky.social
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
HarperNorth signs new Bill McGuire book
Leading climate scientist, and author of Hothouse Earth, returns with The Fate of the World: A Deep-Time History of the Climate Crisis, which 'debunks those who seek to belittle contemporary climate c...
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Very pleased to have acquired this for HarperNorth in my time there - it’s an incredibly important and powerful book, of course, but also one written with verve and great imaginative energy by Bill. Coming atcha in May next year:
Vigdis Hjorth has been my best new fiction reading this year. I’ve read her Will and Testament, If Only and now this. She does the fraught and ever-lasting emotional turmoil of families better than anyone. Thank you @versobooks.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Vigdis Hjorth has been my best new fiction reading this year. I’ve read her Will and Testament, If Only and now this. She does the fraught and ever-lasting emotional turmoil of families better than anyone. Thank you @versobooks.bsky.social
This is great
‘A song about alienation was a bold choice for a debut pop single. Nobody at the turn of the millennium was asking for dark psychedelic mainstream pop.’
Mendez on the Sugababes, at Margate’s Dreamland: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Mendez on the Sugababes, at Margate’s Dreamland: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Mendez | Sugababes at Dreamland
The crowd at Margate’s Dreamland, for the final show of Sugababes’ first ever arena tour, was a mix of hen-party...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is great
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The truth: we need migration.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The truth: we need migration.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
Suspecting as I do that, were I born ten or fifteen years later, I might’ve been taken in by at some manosphere nonsense I read quite a lot about it. This is up there with the best, not least in its giving no quarter to ‘understanding’ manosphere influencers’ prejudices and hatreds:
‘Putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear whether young men will do better under Trump, but at least they will feel pandered to.’
Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Suspecting as I do that, were I born ten or fifteen years later, I might’ve been taken in by at some manosphere nonsense I read quite a lot about it. This is up there with the best, not least in its giving no quarter to ‘understanding’ manosphere influencers’ prejudices and hatreds:
This was really astonishingly good, a contender for the best novel I’ve read this year @colwillbrown.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This was really astonishingly good, a contender for the best novel I’ve read this year @colwillbrown.bsky.social @jonathancape.bsky.social
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Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
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Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
August 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.