Simon Scarrow

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

At my friend's place. They are having a jam session with some wildly talented people. Just wish I had a musical talent of some kind...

If you keep reading them then I will keep writing them.

Squeeee 🥰❤️

So excited for this! 🥰❤️ Always worried with a long running book series the new ones won't keep coming but here it is ❤️🥰

@simon-scarrow.bsky.social

Ah, the glamour of being an author! Today I am knocking out a few pages of the latest Berlin novel in a mall coffee shop while my Hilux gets its latest 5k service. Can recommend the salted caramel and peanut shake at Cafe Lux though. Pure brain food for writers.

35 years? Drokk!

Back in the office and the new Schenke novel is coming on nicely.

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

After reading @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's 'How They Broke Britain' I am now 100% convinced that Johnson will not give a single shit about this.

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

Not the last one by a long way! The next one is out in November.

It is so classically Trump to whine in a televised speech before the entire world about something he himself screwed up that it must be another day in America ending in "Why?"

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Worth a read. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.

The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Where was Justin Webb when FascistBook and Xcrable right wing users were mocking the murders of Democrat politicians?

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!!!
Inspector Schenke's third investigation in wartime Berlin is under way. Available in paperback now.

Nice lunar eclipse. Worth staying up for.

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

Top Ten Tuesday – Books on my Spring 2025 To Be Read (TBR) List Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that currently resides at The Artsy Reader Girl and features bloggers sharing lists on various book topics.  The official Top Ten Tuesday topic for this week featur…

For this week's Top Ten Tuesday, I list my most anticipated books coming out in the next 3 months, including amazing books by @simon-scarrow.bsky.social @decastell.bsky.social @adamchristopher.me @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social and more Part 2 of 2.
unseenlibrary.com/2025/09/02/t...

Back at my favourite Lebanese restaurant here in the UK. In Stansted Airport of all places.

YouTube video by Simon Scarrow 2025 update

Here's a catch up on the projects I am working on at the moment... m.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1e...

Hot tip for guys... DON'T use half a litre of petrol to get the bonfire going... Also, take a good book to read in A and E for after the fire is out.

Fabulous three days at a Hindu wedding. Never seen so many changes of amazing attire and hundreds of lovely people.

Reform still soaking up the White Working Class vote all over in council by-elections.

The danger for other parties - and the rest of us - is that it’s increasingly being seen as the only authentic voice for that community.