I'm getting a lot of maternity-wear targeted ads. Is there anything I should be made aware of?

Please, don't mock these so hard that they stop coming. I need them.

What's even better than being long listed for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024? Being on the SHORTLIST.
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I don't like to beg, but I'll do it. Pleeeease...

You know what I hate? Cryptic fucking crosswords. What a load of bollocks cryptic fucking crosswords are. The clue is always something like “Backwards, Southall enters the chamber (9)” and the answer is “Mogadishu”. What a fucking con. It’s all made-up bullshit.

Trying to convince the bouncer your mate’s fine

I watched Baby Reindeer with a deeply uncomfortable sense of recognition - because over ten years ago, I attracted the attention of a stalker, and like Donny in the show, I made the mistake of inviting her into my life
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A thread: I have only read this article and NOT the book from which it derives, but as the author of the standard biography of Anthony Blunt, I feel inclined to comment. The main contention is that not only was Blunt spying for the Soviets, but that he was/

If type G plugs were invented today, Liz Truss would call them “woke”.

This is correct in pretty much every aspect about those supercilious, tribal left-wing men whose first critical criterion is not, 'Is this right?' but 'Do the Bad People™ agree with it?'

To paraphrase Orwell, sometimes a thing is true even when the wrong people say it is true.

Who is the character you're slowly turning into

It's weird how accustomed to this sort of thing we are. Sunak's exasperation here comes from a flat presumption that other people have simply no right to know when there's going to be an election or a tax rise and it's inherently petty and annoying of them to want to find out.

THE SQUARE OF SEVENS is in the Kindle Daily Deal at only 99p today!!! A steal worthy of Red herself! ♥️♣️♦️♠️ amazon.co.uk/Square-Sevens-…

The adult jellyfish takeover is off
Goodbye

These taste like Cupa Soup

It’s got a wonderful new cover by Emma Ewbank and will be available from all the usual places, including this one. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/taking…

The jellyfish apocalypse is like the millennium bug. Sure, it never kicked off but you're ignoring the decade of work that went into preventing it.
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