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Someone has just read, for free, a 3,000 word essay I wrote, then made the complaint to me that, despite being free to subscribe to, not 100% of my newsletters are free to read. I think it’s important to get the facts straight, and to recognise just how damaging attitudes like this are to writers.

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I saw Robert Stephens as Falstaff. He’s an actor I love (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Box of Delights etc), and it’s probably the most critically lauded stage Falstaff I’ve seen, but it’s not my favourite. That’s David Warner, in Michael Boyd’s Henriad at the RSC in the 2000’s.

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Ugh. Synopsis.

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The architects of Brexit will be watching Germany today hoping to see the fruition of their plans.

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My local beer emporium is still under the cosh of hazy 8% IPAs, lemon sherbet sours, double-hopped pales and 11% breakfast stouts. I long for a new breed of ale hipster who’s into a 3% mild, a 4.4% stout, a 4% best bitter, and a 3.4% light ale and the rest.

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We’re going to get a Nazi pope aren’t we?

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Me, every time I look at the news...

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I tried watching Longlegs but fuck me it’s boring.

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Coventry today

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Behind the scenes of one of the greatest men walking shots in cinema.

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This is such a lovely book, full of thoughts about culture, language and place. Sam was a vital element in the writers’ room for Paddington, and this book is predictably brilliant on how people who move home need to bring something with them, and hold onto it tight.

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Do they all understand this? Do they all think this way? If so, I’m expecting some Cassius Chaerea style behaviour sometime soon.

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I’m fantastically lucky in that the local Waterstones bookseller also happens to be Natalie Marlow, author of the Needless Alley nourish crime novels set in 1930s Birmingham.

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Recommended by local Waterstones bookseller as possible comp for my WIP: Sarah Winman’s Still Life.

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Just a couple of weeks ago, I decided to include this little tribute to Geneviève Page in my latest novel. The protagonist names his daughter after her.

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Oh I wish…

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Ah, what a long life and fabulous career. She appears as a distant object of wonder in my novel set during the shoot for Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

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“Goodnight, Mrs Ashdown.” Last major cast member of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes dies - aged 97. @pbdiamond.bsky.social @patrickkincaid.bsky.social

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I think these three got it right.

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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Martin Platt off of Corrie sitting in front of me (it’s the interval).

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Going to see this tonight. A former student of mine is playing Juliet. Oh hang on — she’s Lady Capulet. Basically, I’m a mouldering corpse. www.belgrade.co.uk/events/romeo...

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Looks like Capt America 4 has “wiped its face” as Kermode always puts it. I’m glad for two reasons: 1) it’s a poke in the eye of the “go woke, go broke” brigade, & 2) I don’t have to see it now. It sounds awful… Happily, I can report that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is utterly splendid.

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My 13-year-old protagonist learns about sex by reading The Odyssey and A Farewell to Arms. Throw in The Thorn Birds and the novelisation of Raiders of the Lost Ark (really) and this is just autobiography. NB We’re separated by 50 years. He didn’t get to see the 1985 repeat of I, Claudius.

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I think I’ve time to learn to knit really well for when they wheel out the guillotines.

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Read our ten questions with GBP Short Story Prize longlistee Valentina Gindri: "[Something] that doesn’t work for me is ‘Ask yourself why you want to tell this story’. If I were to rationalize too much, I wouldn’t write a page." www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-05-gi...

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I wish the government felt they could lead with this stuff rather than sneaking it out under the cloak of all their “honestly, Reform voters, we hate foreigners too” rhetoric.

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@lordbonkers.bsky.social Why the long face?: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread. What's your good news from the week? Big or small, what's made you smile or brought some bright spots into the world for you?

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eBay’s been writing poetry again

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Actual good news. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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American Christianists genuinely believe pride a virtue and humility the greatest sin. They are literally anti-Christian.

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