Jenny Lecoat
@jennylecoat.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author: "The Girl From The Channel Islands", "Beyond Summerland." Ex comic. Liberal-lefty that tries not to group-think, sweary, surprisingly old – surprising to me, anyway. Love the sea, pubs & great writing
This.👇 Anyone else experience their first grin today, following the misery of last week's events?
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This.👇 Anyone else experience their first grin today, following the misery of last week's events?
Very interesting thread raising some alarming questions – something for the weekend, @matthew-wright.bsky.social ?
So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Very interesting thread raising some alarming questions – something for the weekend, @matthew-wright.bsky.social ?
THIS! Check out Byline Times for proper investigative reporting needed now more than ever. Keeps you ahead of mainstream news outlets for a couple of quid a month. And no, they're not paying me!
Byline has become one of the most important sources of news in the country! Amazing what a difference it makes when you're not owned/controlled by a foreign billionaire x
October 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
THIS! Check out Byline Times for proper investigative reporting needed now more than ever. Keeps you ahead of mainstream news outlets for a couple of quid a month. And no, they're not paying me!
Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!
October 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!
Ing Hell Indeed.
Fuck. Ing. Hell.
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ing Hell Indeed.
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They want to control our words more than they control guns. Isn’t that something
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
They want to control our words more than they control guns. Isn’t that something
I was a stand up in the 80s, a time when ironically some people thought the new wave too politically correct. Always loved US stand up. Never thought I'd live to see a US comic fired for the political pleasure of a president. Dark day for the US and for true free speech.
September 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I was a stand up in the 80s, a time when ironically some people thought the new wave too politically correct. Always loved US stand up. Never thought I'd live to see a US comic fired for the political pleasure of a president. Dark day for the US and for true free speech.
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Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words
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Readers of Becky's first book, Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You, will know to expect useful anti-scam info in highly entertaining form. I'll be getting this. (Probably from a different retailer though, if poss)
August 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Readers of Becky's first book, Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You, will know to expect useful anti-scam info in highly entertaining form. I'll be getting this. (Probably from a different retailer though, if poss)
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I have visited The Bull at Charlbury several times. It's a great pub with great food. Even better now.
August 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I have visited The Bull at Charlbury several times. It's a great pub with great food. Even better now.
The excellent Tax Justice Network explain financial reality vs the myths.
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The excellent Tax Justice Network explain financial reality vs the myths.
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Another one? If only there were other books with great stories written by women that could ve adapted for tv ….
I love it by the way but really?
I love it by the way but really?
Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice has started production. Details here bit.ly/3UDLgbK
#PrideandPrejudice #TV #Netflix #EmmaCorrin #OliviaColman #JackLowden #RufusSewell #book #JaneAusten
#PrideandPrejudice #TV #Netflix #EmmaCorrin #OliviaColman #JackLowden #RufusSewell #book #JaneAusten
July 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Excellent thread here. I remember when The Telegraph was respected even by centrists and left wingers. I'm pretty old.
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
July 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Excellent thread here. I remember when The Telegraph was respected even by centrists and left wingers. I'm pretty old.
Titles to include the hand lion.
Give it to Bob Mortimer, you cowards!
Tom Holland, Jacob Elordi and Harris Dickinson at top of James Bond wishlist – report
June 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Titles to include the hand lion.
Argument on Today was "narrator gets in the way." Only if they're bad, otherwise why would they? And if audio is intrinsically bad, should we not read to kids? Well done for an excellent defence.
Just been championing audiobooks on The Today programme. No surprise to those of us with dyslexia children or parents with poor eyesight. Nor to anyone that works with vulnerable readers. Or good readers like me who just love them. Close your eyes and listen or vacuum or drive. Brilliant.
UK audiobook revenue up by almost a third last year
Income from audiobooks reached a record £268m in 2024, according to figures from the Publishers Association
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Argument on Today was "narrator gets in the way." Only if they're bad, otherwise why would they? And if audio is intrinsically bad, should we not read to kids? Well done for an excellent defence.
USA today.
I miscarried twice…once in a toilet.
A 9 week pregnancy is the size of a period clot. I flushed the toilet.
Today, I could go to jail for that. Jail. For a wanted pregnancy my body rejected and I took care of by myself.
A 9 week pregnancy is the size of a period clot. I flushed the toilet.
Today, I could go to jail for that. Jail. For a wanted pregnancy my body rejected and I took care of by myself.
June 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
USA today.
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Truly we are living through the fable of the scorpion and the frog for our social media age.
June 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Truly we are living through the fable of the scorpion and the frog for our social media age.
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Well, that's my weekend off to a cracking start.
Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig
May 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Well, that's my weekend off to a cracking start.
Disunity Mitford did not bungle her answer. She knows how it will be clipped by their client media. This is not idiocy, it's policy.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Disunity Mitford did not bungle her answer. She knows how it will be clipped by their client media. This is not idiocy, it's policy.
Panorama has been around for so long it's easy to forget what an extraordinary programme it can be.
A top general who failed to report evidence of alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan later oversaw the rejection of hundreds of UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who served with the elite regiment, BBC Panorama can reveal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan 'war-crime' witnesses to Britain
Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins oversaw a process where Afghan special forces were prevented from settling in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Panorama has been around for so long it's easy to forget what an extraordinary programme it can be.
This is my surgery. A really good one, proven success. Being handed to a private company 100s of miles away because ... (strokes chin) Whaddya reckon?
Is this what you mean by "greater efficiency" in the #NHS Wes Streeting? It's happening in #Brighton but where else? An appalling waste of money and expertise, all in the name of profit?- A special report on the threatened closure of an outstanding GP clinic sussexbylines.co.uk/news/health-...
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it: Wellsbourne Healthcare GP Surgery under threat
Shock and dismay as much-admired GP practice in East Brighton set to be taken over by a profit-making healthcare company based in Leeds
sussexbylines.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is my surgery. A really good one, proven success. Being handed to a private company 100s of miles away because ... (strokes chin) Whaddya reckon?