Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.
Happy release, and gorgeous cover!
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi is Iranian-German. The iconic theme song was inspired by music and instruments from Persian culture.
Listen anew. You'll never hear it the same way again.
youtu.be/juc-hx4j_gw?...
I'll be free to accept some work staring next week and really miss working on pieces in this layout! If you're interested, you can find my commission information here: linktr.ee/anyachalina
Don't give J ideas...
J did not like the girls. She generally regarded them in the same way that a housewife regarded an infestation of cockroaches, only with less respect or affection. #writing
🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀
We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG!
Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space.
But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?
Fantastic! Congratulations to you and RRD!
I’m very poor at providing good quotes, but that’s an honest opinion!
It is an extremely good read and people will love it.
(But I do know the feeling.)
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
Apparently some of the War Understanders are suggesting just throwing all the oil on trucks and driving them across land to the other side of the Strait of Hormuz. Boy do I have a movie and like five remakes of it for them!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wag...
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
At breakfast the next morning, Jane dropped down in the chair next to Phil. “Do you know what’s going on?” she asked briskly.
Phil looked up blearily from her toast and marmalade. “No,” she said. At that time in the morning, she rarely did.
#writing
🇫🇷 Paris seen from the International Space Station.
Excellent!
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.
EMPRESS OF FOREVER is $1.99 at various websites! Galaxy-smashing wuxia-adjacent spaceopera adventure that kicks off from annoyingly-plausible near-future political thriller... Have fun! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/empress-of...
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The feeling when you're trying to decide whether to phrase a description as "dead-eyed and distant" or "distant and dead-eyed" and you realise that "dead-eyed and distant" is your classic hexameter end of line, dactyl and spondee. Dum di di dum dum.
Trump is completely flailing. He didn't anticipate the economic blowback and now he's trying to undo the past 10 days and contain the damage.
What's the odds Trump gives up on his own war before his British cheerleaders do
Behold, the shiny cover for the shiny new UK edition of Raven & Reindeer!
“Sing, Muse, of the waffles of Achilles…”
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
ICYMI!!!!
This comes out TOMORROW, last chance to preorder and get the exclusive ebook
Phil cradled her teacup in her hands, grateful for the warmth; there was a chill in her bones which wouldn’t go away after her brush with the unknown unnatural. (Demon summoning was a *known* unnatural. What had happened earlier this evening was an unknown unnatural, and seriously scary.) #writing
