Feature writer and book critic @spectator @theTLS etc. | Event chair | Arsenal fan| Instagram: @alexpeaketom
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Books are back in @EveningStandard and I’m delighted to have chosen five to look out for 📚 ❤️.
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Solidarity with Rosamund Urwin. And thank you to her for her tenacious public interest journalism.
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Happy birthday to you, @IanWright0 ❤️
ALT Happy Birthday to Ian Wright!
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Nobody was questioning whether John Barnes was English?! He was famously told by the National Front that an England goal didn’t count because he scored it. And one of the headlines I remember reading as a child was “Why is John Barnes backheeling a banana”
The strongest section of Kemi Badenoch's speech so far:
"To those who say “unite the right”... we are not uniting with THAT. I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, call veterans traitors and debate whether my mixed-race children are English.
"I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English.
"I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing - nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English.
"We must not let these people take us backwards. That is not the country we are. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I am black. I am British. I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of our history."
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“The question is no longer whether Cusk has written a novel about Portman, but whether Portman minds—and whether it matters if she does”, writes @AlexPeakeTom
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“Don’t let anyone else’s imagination get in your way!”
@AlexPeakeTom interviews Siri Hustvedt about grief and the therapeutic power of writing after her husband Paul Auster’s death: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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Love, as Rilke wrote, is “the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s ‘Love’s Labour’ examines how he and his patients do that work. @AlexPeakeTom reviews the new book.
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Delighted to have the lead fiction review @ftweekend this weekend, not least because it’s been illustrated by @heathergatley! The review is of Amy Bloom’s new novel, I’ll Be Right Here, which I didn’t find easy to disentangle. Thank you to @mariacrawford74 for the commission.
I’ll Be Right Here — Amy Bloom’s era-spanning saga of alternative family on.ft.com/4lHWJ61
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As a content moderator of the internet, thirty-something Girlie is accustomed to stomach-churning videos. But how will she fare in the VR theme park sector?
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There are still a few tickets 🎟️ left for my talk with @SusieBoyt about the incredible Loved and Missed this Thursday eventbrite.co.uk/e/loved-and…
Even as a Kathy Burke super fan, I didn’t realise this was happening until her editor told me last night — delighted that her memoir is imminent!
I’m writing a little memoir, kids called, A Mind Of My Own.
Eeek! Due to be available at the end of October. The link will lead to presales, signed copies etc. Suppose I’d best get on with it! ♥️📚 #AMindOfMyOwn linktr.ee/KathyBurkeAMindOfM…
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The characters from Loved and Missed stay with me so I wrote more about them for the new Granta.
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We’re so excited to reveal the cover for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith.
The celebrated author of White Teeth delivers a fiercely intelligent and searching collection of essays covering culture in all its forms!
Pre-order the signed edition: bit.ly/4cB7ByZ
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When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own.
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Back here to exhort you to read Jean Hannah Edelstein's brilliant memoir, Breasts: A Relatively Brief Relationship @Phoenix_Bks, which I've reviewed for the current issue of @spectator. It's only 99 pages long and so worth your time.
When misguided well-wishers suggest to Edelstein, post-mastectomy, that she might now have ‘the breasts of her dreams’, she wants to reply that those had always been her own.
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NEW: Marine le Pen found guilty of embezzlement.
Could face 5 year prohibition on running for office- ruling her out of the 2027 presidential contest. She will continue to run until an appeal against the verdict is heard.
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Before Rachel Reeves makes her Spring Statement speech on Wednesday I urge her to read this article by Frances Ryan.”I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect” theguardian.com/society/2025…
