… in which you can play along with my game of “newspaper editorial on Iraq from 2003 or on Iran from 2026” and see if you do better than Ian, Helen and Andy. Learning from history is for LOSERS!
I mean he's putting his money where his mouth is.
I don't know; she's not got a wrinkle on her.
Thanks for the terrifyingly misleading headline, the Times!
In the end they went for another Ayatollah Khamenei to save having to redo all the stationery.
Only until the next draft taking in your editor's suggestions, copy edit, proof reading, desperate attempts to drum up some pre-publication publicity and launch are over. After that you'll be fine.
It's like “Learning from history? That's for wankers!”
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really hope Biffo is ok
Ok the Mail, you seem confused, do you REMEMBER HOW YOU DON'T LIKE HIM?
I think in this scenario Bjork is Wincey Willis.
It is my solemn duty to inform you of my husband's discovery that Rosalia's Berghain scans exactly to "John Kettley is a weatherman and so is Michael Fish".
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The Force is with us once again. 🤺
Writing is 10% inspiration, and 90% extensive research to find out whether Reading phone numbers had five or six digits in 1993 so that you definitely get that right while shifting and changing actual historical events at whim.
… why not buy the full series (so far) of my Tommy Wildeblood thrillers, featuring all the above, while I crack on with writing number 4?
www.amazon.co.uk/Tommy-Wildeb...
My handy last minute dress-up ideas for World Book Day: Norman Scott's dead dog Rinka; Gerry Healy, sex abuser and leader of the Worker's Revolutionary Party; a marcher protesting against Clause 28. Or, if you really want to celebrate books today…
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
I wrote and published these a lot quicker than ipso, too.
And you ain't no Roosevelt, fuckbrain.
Amazing! Can't wait.
We might well, there's not much news around at the minute so we've got the space.
If you like this I have quite a humorous observation about Matt Goodwin's surname.
More like Paul Overblown, eh, am I right kids?
The Polari for good dogs is bona fidos
Press day today. Last thing the chief sub said to me on Friday was "mag's in great shape. Let's hope no news at all happens over the weekend."
Don't British Values include not being a bad loser?
