@joannanadin
Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
If anyone is at LBF I’ll be on the main stage tomorrow at 3.45 talking about being a ghost. And if any friends aren’t booked to the eyeballs, let me know, otherwise I will basically be wandering around stalls in a daze for the remainder of the day. www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...
I don’t think the Lindt Master Chocolatier has reason to be that smug when all he’s done is make an oblong Ferrero Rocher.
Jakki (sp?) Brambles is giving me Victoria Coren Mitchell vibes in a good way #totp
So many. I have hideous flashbacks to something involving glowsticks and neon leggings in Brixton Electric
Dear god. *shudders*
But I won’t hear a word against Kelly Jones.
I can never listen to them again. I overplayed that album and it’s like when you once got horribly drunk on gin and cherryade and now you get memory heaves
It would be so nice if dictators and warmongering tangerines could, idk, stop being testosterone-fuelled bellends for five minutes so my kid could pay her heating bill (and also so innocent people don’t die anymore, obvs).
Big up to the student who showed up to tutorial in shorts today. That level of optimism brings me joy.
Rewatching Sliding Doors (one of my many comfort films) and it is a tickbox exercise in my London 90s:
- excessive Grolsch
- Bertorelli’s
- smoking inside
- radical pixie haircut
- dickish boyfriend with swarthy eyebrows
Minus the living in a fancy flat and being, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow
If it helps, I can express my contempt even louder.
Our latest BBC West reporter has a Somerset accent and a man bun and I am here for it.
It’s also baffling because if they think we can’t tell they’re eejits. They just look cheap
Make it stop!
Yes! This. It’s all TOO MUCH.
I just read something of his yesterday and the phrase ‘deeply savoury’ has a lingering ick even now.
Anyone lurking around Frome on 26th March, would be lovely to see you at this event for After Darcy…
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Hope tells me Labour will learn from this. That they’ll stop pandering to wankers and remember who they’re supposed to stand for. Experience reminds me too many ARE the wankers now. Green didn’t split the Labour vote. Labour split the Reform vote.
Make hope normal again.
INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚
People are exhausted, the moral panics labour have taken an active and willing part in are exhausting, we need change, we need better, we need this
The endless attacks on oppressed and marginalised people, disabled, immigrants, trans people, its not what people want
But it is what politicians want
We shouldn’t have to vote tactically. We shouldn’t have to painstakingly analyse small sample polls with huge error margins to figure out how to stop our least preferred candidate winning. We shouldn’t have to be bombarded with conflicting party propaganda about who is in front really. It’s madness.
£1million worth going at my uni at the moment. And yet we’re building new campuses constantly.
On Reform's "British culture" bullshit.
I grew up in a culture that has endured for 800 years despite attempts, both obvious and insidious, to snuff it out by a much more powerful neighbour. If your culture can't withstand a few Turkish kebab shops, your culture ain't all that. 🏴
Passion fruit. Taste like Lush invented them and the texture of claggy spit.
Watching Robert Aramayo win Best Actor is just GORGEOUS.
Drop a crush from your youth.
Pity the idiot of a commentator who confused Halle Bailey in the crowd at the figure skating with Rihanna.
Reading a proof (thankfully) at the moment which has used ‘slither’ for ‘sliver’ three times already.
Hey, Bristol friends. I’ll be at Waterstones Galleries on April 17th talking about After Darcy.
www.waterstones.com/events/after...
A banner headline in Times New Roman font reading ‘Children’s book of the week.’ Underneath is a photo of the cover of my book When the World Ends showing a cartoon ark with three children at the prow.
Bit chuffed to be Children’s Book of the Week in the Times. Been a lovely week in publishing (not so ace in higher education).