Bella Mackie

A strong whiff of "don't you know who I am" here. And, do tell, who broke it? Your former husband and his mates?

When Is It Genocide? Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 13/08/2025 · 1h 43m

This is superb to the point of essential. Philippe Sands was a key source for our episodes on genocide and Klein conducts an excellent interview podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

Really good deep reporting by @noahshachtman.bsky.social (plus some jaw-dropping anecdotes) in this story about the growing internal crisis at the ADL

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Bella Mackie: What doctors never told me about quitting antidepressants After 20 years on the drugs, the author suffered severe withdrawal. She had no idea how difficult it would be

I wrote about antidepressant withdrawal and why the general advice about coming off ssris is so unhelpful for a lot of people www.thetimes.com/article/1ba8...

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life

Read this today www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess. The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Final CrimeFest Awards shortlist features Bella Mackie, Lynda La Plante and DG Coutinho

The final CrimeFest Awards shortlist has been revealed, and features authors including @bellamackie.bsky.social, @lyndalaplante.bsky.social and DG Coutinho ( @dgcwords.bsky.social ), among others 👇 #BookSky

Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is launching a drive to raise funds from wealthy offshore donors in low-tax jurisdictions including Monaco, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, taking advantage of Britain’s loose funding rules to bolster its coffers.

www.ft.com/content/b133...

An Evening with Bella Mackie and Greg James at Conway Hall, London | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Bella Mackie and Greg James at Conway Hall, London today.

My latest book - WHAT A WAY TO GO - is out in paperback on Thursday. To mark it, I’m doing an event with my husband in London. Get tickets here (if you like) www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Let me get this straight:

Fringe extremist infiltrates a major political party, rises to the rank of Vice President, throws around diplomatic weight to force a meeting with the Pope, and then MURDERS said Pope?

Folks. This is a Dan Brown novel.

Hugely keen on this Jesus guy

Hahahaha

Next time someone asks me this ridiculous question I’m just gonna send them this link 🙃

'No-one is talking about young men' increasingly occupies the same space as 'we need an honest conversation about immigration'. We never shut up about young men. It's one of the only things we ever talk about, although admittedly only ever to say 'we need to be more reactionary'.

Why I don't want children A vulnerable post, this one

I wrote a very personal piece about why I’m not having children open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...

We are very excited about this event with bestselling author Bella Mackie in conversation with Radio 1 breakfast show host Greg James.

🎫 Tickets are selling fast so grab yours now!

@bellamackie.bsky.social
@chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social

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All social media platforms are absolutely mental for the brain. Just five seconds of scrolling here gave me “the earth’s core is changing,” a recipe for rhubarb crumble by Nigella, then a post about an imminent bird flu pandemic before finally a photo of a dog in a hat.

Congratulations Tess! Xx

18km!!!!!!!!

[eloquently] The President should be a totally different guy than he has been for his entire life.

I wrote about harbouring delusions I could be amazing at things I’ve never even done and some of the comments made me howl. open.substack.com/pub/bellamac...

Freddie’s flowers touts stand outside branches of Gails with bouquets in the basket of an old timey bike as if in an advertorial directed by Richard Curtis.

January Read #1
I love @bellamackie.bsky.social and this compliments HTKYF perfectly. She provides a hilarious perspective on the ridiculous lives of the super rich! There's nothing better than a book that makes you grateful your not rich. Can't wait for her next one! #booksky

Thank you so much!

Mark Zuckerberg has made me rethink what it means to be a man (and the size of my neck) The Meta chief is one of the richest and most successful people in the world, so we should all pay close attention to what he’s saying—except, perhaps, when it’s about how to hunt pigs

Mark Z and Joe Rogan talked for nearly 3 hours about masculinity and shooting pigs. There are shorter Wagner operas. But there is much to digest. My column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69052/...

How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue

including replies, Musk has posted more than 1180 times in seven days

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‘Perfect for winter nights’: the best crime novels to read at Christmas according to Ian Rankin, Bella Mackie and more From Maigret to Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, authors choose the whodunnits they love to hunker down with at this time of year

Wrote about perfect Christmas reading for the guardian here - www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Nick Candy vows to help Reform disrupt British politics ‘like we have never seen’ [FREE TO READ] Property developer claims more billionaires are joining Elon Musk in backing the party

NEW: Reform treasurer Nick Candy tells the FT other billionaires are waiting to join Elon Musk in backing the party to disrupt UK politics

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We need to start recognising online radicalisation as a mental illness.