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jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
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📳 NEW EPISODE 📳 Elon Musk limps away from politics leaving nothing behind but wreckage and, literally, dead children. 📳 @abeaujon.bsky.social of @washingtonian.com tells @alexvont.bsky.social how MAGA chewed up the world’s richest man and spat him out. 📳 Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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Truly magnificent

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As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

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in an unprecedented development, i am on a PODCAST

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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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The Thames Water affair is a reminder that big bonuses beat public pressure. Also: why lifts rarely fall, but sometimes rocket; and a guide to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. This week's newsletter is out and is what I believe the kids term "a banger"

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

YOU SHOULD!

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The Thames Water affair is a reminder that big bonuses beat public pressure. Also: why lifts rarely fall, but sometimes rocket; and a guide to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. This week's newsletter is out and is what I believe the kids term "a banger"

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

TFW your personal trainer is running to be leader of the Green Party of England & Wales

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We have friends everywhere.

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how have I never seen this before this is incredible

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Say what you like about austerity, it's bought the death trap playground back in fashion. Scalding metal slide, rusty climbing frames. Finally my kids are going to get toughened up

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Henry Scampi is now grown up enough that if someone comes to the flat to fix or clean something, he'll briefly say hello then just keep out of their way, and this is easier but also I kind of miss the idiot baby who was so curious that he'd try to e.g. get involved in the dishwasher repair process

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

So @matt-taylor.bsky.social wrote about his experience of the New Writing North programme and my lumbering attempts to mentor him, and I feel genuinely quite emotional about it. Please do read. (Not just because it's very nice about me.)

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☀️ Restive MPs, dire polls, the looming spending review… Is Keir Starmer in for a long hot summer? ⛱️ New edition with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @jonnelledge.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social 📳 Listen now linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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I think the clue in him being an anti-semite might be the time he went to a Jewish event and shot two random people.

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"Paul McGann is Doctor Who..." BBC trailer for "Doctor Who" (1996). #DoctorWho

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My 15 year long position finally becomes popular

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We’re just normal orange juice

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I'm doing some events around the publication of The Genius Myth this summer, each of them alongside someone with different expertise. Starting with . . . June 17 Conway Hall, London Intelligence Squared, in conversation with Armando Iannucci www.intelligencesquared.com/events/the-g...

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Astérix et Ozempix

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Just announced: I've been appointed chair of the newly-formed New Humanist editorial board humanists.uk/2025/05/27/i...

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So @matt-taylor.bsky.social wrote about his experience of the New Writing North programme and my lumbering attempts to mentor him, and I feel genuinely quite emotional about it. Please do read. (Not just because it's very nice about me.)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sad news that the South London Press has closed. It was a great local newspaper. It also ran one of the greatest local newspaper stories ever*, "Squirrels on crack".

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I have literally no idea, but if anyone can help the man:

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look carefully and you can see Colin Baker

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the problem I've not seen many Tories grappling with is that nobody wants an electoral pact with them because they broke everything and are thus toxic and also why would other parties give up this once in a century opportunity to feast on your corpse

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