James Alistair Henry
@jamesbluecat.bsky.social
Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack The Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/9781916678064
Pinned
Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
They'd instantly ruin it with Celebrity Bin Day specials, although that said, a Tom Hollander Bin Day would be amazing.
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 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
They'd instantly ruin it with Celebrity Bin Day specials, although that said, a Tom Hollander Bin Day would be amazing.
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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
Pagans in paperback early next year! With RED SPREDGES!
We couldn't be happier to share the pre-order link for the @waterstones.bsky.social special edition of PAGANS in paperback. With a beautiful foiled cover, red spredges and an exclusive short story, it is a treat. Limited numbers, so pre-order now if you want it! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Pagans in paperback early next year! With RED SPREDGES!
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
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Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
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boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.
'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
Ooh, I wrote the script for this (based off Tom Fleetcher's excellent story concept), so that's nice, innit? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
BBC Children in Need’s Pudsey brought to life in CBeebies animation based on story by Tom Fletcher
In an exciting first, Pudsey will be brought to life in a magical and moving animation, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer this December
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ooh, I wrote the script for this (based off Tom Fleetcher's excellent story concept), so that's nice, innit? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
I KNEW I'd write 'Tom Felton' instead of 'Tom Fletcher' (mainly because I just read an interview where he says people always call him the former) and then I went and did it anyway. Will repost when the burning guilt has passed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I KNEW I'd write 'Tom Felton' instead of 'Tom Fletcher' (mainly because I just read an interview where he says people always call him the former) and then I went and did it anyway. Will repost when the burning guilt has passed.
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Help to get a nationally-important monograph printed. A pledge of £34 will get you a print copy of the Rhynie book + UK shipping if the full £10k is raised. A bargain price for what will be a very detailed account of this major Pictish site and its environs. (The ebook will be free.)
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Help to get a nationally-important monograph printed. A pledge of £34 will get you a print copy of the Rhynie book + UK shipping if the full £10k is raised. A bargain price for what will be a very detailed account of this major Pictish site and its environs. (The ebook will be free.)
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Book update.
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Book update.
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
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X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Mamdani is the most Leslie Knope-assed American politician in a decade.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Mamdani is the most Leslie Knope-assed American politician in a decade.
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Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
Lovely page from a kids' book from 1952 (title unknown, I'm afraid). 'How to sleep though the Winter (Hibernate)'. Double points for the most annoyed/delighted lynx ever.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Lovely page from a kids' book from 1952 (title unknown, I'm afraid). 'How to sleep though the Winter (Hibernate)'. Double points for the most annoyed/delighted lynx ever.
I need specificity on the lineage thing though, like is 20% Jutish okay?
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I need specificity on the lineage thing though, like is 20% Jutish okay?
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The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife
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I’d say this was like John Terry taking off his suit and putting on a full kit to accept a winner’s medal, but John Terry didn’t spend his entire career putting in scything tackles on his own goalkeeper and blasting the ball over and over into his own team’s net.
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I’d say this was like John Terry taking off his suit and putting on a full kit to accept a winner’s medal, but John Terry didn’t spend his entire career putting in scything tackles on his own goalkeeper and blasting the ball over and over into his own team’s net.
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Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
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Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here!
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here!
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
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over the weekend I painted two layers on all the gold suns & signed & numbered & packed them up & if you want a cheeky crow thief I'd recommend you get a move on 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #crow
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
over the weekend I painted two layers on all the gold suns & signed & numbered & packed them up & if you want a cheeky crow thief I'd recommend you get a move on 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #crow
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"Taxation of jealousy..."
@politicsjoe.bsky.social's Laura Beveridge turns up with facts, including by HMRC, on taxing wealth. Tory MP turns up with a load of bad faith: first pretending it's about council tax (it's not), then that the rich will leave (they won't), then he shifts to companies. 😠~AA
@politicsjoe.bsky.social's Laura Beveridge turns up with facts, including by HMRC, on taxing wealth. Tory MP turns up with a load of bad faith: first pretending it's about council tax (it's not), then that the rich will leave (they won't), then he shifts to companies. 😠~AA
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Taxation of jealousy..."
@politicsjoe.bsky.social's Laura Beveridge turns up with facts, including by HMRC, on taxing wealth. Tory MP turns up with a load of bad faith: first pretending it's about council tax (it's not), then that the rich will leave (they won't), then he shifts to companies. 😠~AA
@politicsjoe.bsky.social's Laura Beveridge turns up with facts, including by HMRC, on taxing wealth. Tory MP turns up with a load of bad faith: first pretending it's about council tax (it's not), then that the rich will leave (they won't), then he shifts to companies. 😠~AA
Trying to write as my stupid cat rubs her chin on the corner of my laptop screen, purring and slowly pushing it closed.
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trying to write as my stupid cat rubs her chin on the corner of my laptop screen, purring and slowly pushing it closed.