@sathnam.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
"Epstein saying if Trump is cornered like a rat he could begin bombing Iran"
Aaaaaaaaaaah shit
war seems to be going to plan!
Well, I enjoyed Jeff Goldblum describing Wolverhampton as one of "The Hamptons"
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
How it started ... How it's going
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
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OFCOM earlier today
It should exist!
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A compromise we can all get behind surely
Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US inews.co.uk/opinion/hegs...
🙏🏾
Artist Jeremy Deller went viral recently with his 'Thank God For Immigrants' posters featuring Wham, but they weren't precisely accurate: George and Andrew were sons of migrants. It explained a lot. My new book Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: the Meaning of George Michael is out soon. sathnam.com
The lovely people at Well Books are offering signed/dedicated bundles of #Empireland and #Empireworld
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When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
🧵 1/3
One would hope @ofcom.bsky.social would have a think about this 🧵— particularly the established power of these sort of narratives as rationalisation for violence
But not optimistic it will
To celebrate the publication of my new book 'The Secrets of Painting' I am embarking on a nationwide book tour & I’d love you to join me at a venue near you. For more information and tickets follow the links on my website lachlangoudie.com/news/
Public support for US attack on Iran down 10 points since last week. 59% oppose to 25% support. Tory supporters now evenly split. Another Keminaissance triumph.
67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti
By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September!
Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.
My money is on George Osborne.
Publishing WTF moment:
I get a pitch for a book that's pro-AI pedagogy, asking me which proposal guidelines to use, as we have 2 files on our website.
We only have 1 file on our website.
The second file is 8 years old and not publicly available.
I ask where they got it. /1
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”
Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”
#bbclaurak
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
“Already won” 🧐
move slow and repair things
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
