Benjamin Myers

I think in the future people should have to pass an ethics examination before they can use the internet.

I'd say 90% of Telegraph columnists have gone tonto since the Tories have died.

1982, aged 6. Pretending I'm dead on a Helvellyn ascent because I can't be bothered to proceed.

I'm happy to be a proud sponsor of a bout or two today.

Good luck to all the young fighters.

Thinking about it, I may have been at their last shows too (London)?

Never have the dormant loins of so many tired 50 year old men in hats stirred in such perfect synchronicity.

Cor!

First time I saw them was the one time I've been to Washington DC. Looked in the paper: hang on, Fugazi are playing....here...in an hour...!

Never have the dormant loins of so many tired 50 year old men in hats stirred in such perfect synchronicity.

Writer born in Ukraine wins 2026 Gordon Burn Prize Winner revealed at Northern Stage

It's a slog trying to get the literary world to leave London.

Last night I got to see amazing writers from around the world talk in Newcastle, and hear great live music.

I post this in the hope that the national press may feel compelled to cover it.

www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/writer-bor...

Newcastle: the only city in the world where a homeless man offered me some of his food as I passed by.

Aye, he's a big influence (especially on Cuddy) - and a pal too.

Look at this terrible photo of Richard Dawson making the hairs on my neck stand up.

Congrats to all the authors on the Gordon Burn Prize shortlist last night, and winner Maria Reva.

A fine bash in Newcastle, catching up with some bona fide legends including the inimitable Sarah Hall and Richard Dawson.

That's it.....for now!

Watch this space etc etc

Join us as we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist on Wednesday 4 March at 2pm GMT. The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist!

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‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stage

Excellent things are happening in Newcastle.

(Side note: Creative Director Jack McNamara produced a one-off dramatic reading of CUDDY starring Toby Jones, Samantha Neale and The Shining Levels.)

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Had the biggest tooth in my head pulled out yesterday.

Next stop: trepanning.

That said: politics today seems to mainly involve people screaming CAN A WOMAN HAVE A PENIS, PRIME MINISTER? at them as they leave the house.

An interesting read, this.

British fascism circa 1926 was facilitated by wealthy aristocrats, right-wing papers & defecting Tory agitators, who all cajoled proles into hating anyone deemed 'other' (coming over here, stealing their jobs etc.)

Conclusion: the 2030s are shaping up be like the 1930s.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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Good news: GB News lost £21,000,000 last year.

#StopFundingHate

"Come friendly bombs and fall on Dubs / It isn't fit for English mugs..."

While doing that contrived closed hand gesture that no sane person does in real life.

It beats golf.

Episode 6 - Under the Rock, Poetry of a Place

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Been up all night worrying about the toads I displaced into a neighbours' pond while relining mine yesterday.

Forgive me, lads. Your palatial new spread awaits.

A man with neither chin nor sock.

Just remembered the bassist from The Damned once had a No. 1 hit with a Rodgers & Hammerstein show tune.

Truly, the past is a foreign country.

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It's spring.

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