If Trump's criminal conviction has given you a taste for the humiliation of powerful people with weird gold things balanced on their heads, then you might enjoy my book about kings and queens. Some of them had a hell of a time. It's out now in paperback. waterstones.com/book/unruly/da…

Talking to David Baddiel this Saturday lunchtime - 1st June - about My Family: The Memoir (and other stuff) at 1pm in the mighty Salisbury Playhouse part of Wiltshire Creative

Tickets here:

wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/david-b…

I'm talking about My Family: The Memoir - and no doubt other stuff - tomorrow in Salisbury.

From his Holocaust-survivor mother's affair with a golf memorabilia salesman to his father's battle with dementia, David David Baddiel's page-turning memoir MY FAMILY brims with poignant and humorous stories. Signed Edition: exyu.short.gy/QsveFk

Really think manager should dress like Captain Haddock.

Today, President Biden put forward a clear, realistic and just plan to establish an immediate ceasefire and end the war in Gaza - a plan that ensures Israel’s security, returns hostages taken on October 7th to their families, increases aid into Gaza and relieves the suffering of

Fascinating and funny piece from ⁦⁦Hugo Rifkind⁩ on his - really very different from mine, but nearly as fucked up - childhood.
thetimes.co.uk/article/5bad9c…

View from my window, Llangoed Hotel, near Hay.

Edinburgh has now caved too. *Taps effing sign*. This is a catastrophe for the arts in this country. spectator.co.uk/article/the-gr…

Grim assumption underpinning this tweet, that caring about the welfare of Palestinians somehow mutually exclusive with being associated with a Labour movement for British Jews.

“This is not who we are”?

The 2nd shooting this week and 3rd in Outremont targeting Jewish Canadian children.

If this isn’t who you are, then speak out on social media against our rising antisemitism. The silence is deafening from us who aren’t Jewish. nationalpost.com/news/canada/sh…

New episode - ⁦David Baddiel⁩ ⁦Sayeeda Warsi⁩ ⁦Instinct Productions⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-m…

This photo looks like it’s been lifted from a story in a paranormal magazine about a poltergeist that terrorised a recluse in the 1970s.

Now that I’m doing a ‘tell all’, I’m going to share the second worst example of antisemitism I experienced in Ireland.

At my former workplace we were having discussions about (old) offensive signs for ethnic groups etc. in Irish Sign Language.

These include, for example:

Ernest Hemingway once said that he’d read the saddest story ever told in six words: Rail Replacement buses operate this service

The first copies of this have arrived on my birthday. Which is a nice present.