Young, gifted and black...I used to be one of these things. Author of 8 novels of acclaimed fiction … and 7 letters of embittered resignation.

Everywhere and nowhere.
Joined October 2010
From the @OrendaBooks hit-making factory that brought you the fifth best Scottish Fiction Book of 2021*, soon comes the incendiary … THE WEEKENDERS 13.02.25 *other poll selections are available
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Up. Face like Presley in '56. Hair like James Dean. Voice like Caruso. Morni.......UK GOVT. ALERT: YOU MAY BE A VICTIM OF THE RUSSO/AMERICAN CYBER HACKERS. BUY TINS OF BEANS AND WATER IMMEDIATELY!
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Michael Carrick sounds way out of his depth in this interview. Just wanting it all to end. Could see him leaving the position tonight.
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Up. Face like a Renaissance Fresco painted by a one-armed chimpanzee. Hair like a Phil Spector mugshot. Voice like a National Union of Scarecrows pleading for Storm Buelo Just Giving contributions. Morning.
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Josh Widdecombe’s voice is a bit flat for a Strictly presenter, is it not? Maybe just tired. Must be well past his bedtime.
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Up. Face like a malfunctioning lava lamp. Hair like a worn out Brillo pad, fresh from a stint cleaning a Barlinnie dirty protest. Voice like an antisocial artificial intelligence content creator with a new-born conscience. Morning.
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The astonishing thing is not that he has the lowest approval rating in American history. It’s that there’s still 30% of Americans who apparently ‘approve’ of this vile, disgusting shit.
Trump: "Why wouldn't you listen to a mother that says that?" @albamonica: "She stayed with a stepfather who was charged with raping his stepdaughter in 1978, sir." Trump: "You just keep talking." Alba: "I am answering you, sir." Trump: "I don't know anything about stepfathers."
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Corruption and illegality in plain sight now. Banana Republicans.
JUST IN: The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's US Senate election if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in the state which could decide the balance of power in the Senate. cnn.it/4i52DPm
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Quite the CV.
Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher. Please meet the President of the United States: Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess. Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business. 34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges. Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy. 6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money. 5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty. 4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four. 2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president. 2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted. 1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down. Even his charity was a grift. Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually. Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke. Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity. Stealing from a charity with his own name on it. Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway. First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point. Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term. Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money. Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for. Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars. Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again. Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway. Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos. Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters. At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody. His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office. Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets. Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone. His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year. You’re paying for this. Not China. You. No more foreign wars. Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One. None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat. It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look. So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out. Credit: Charles Curtis Rone
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‘Open’ to cheating. And admitting it shamelessly.
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If Trump has a specific attitude to the Epstein scandal, then his response to that disgusting Ramaswamy ad is entirely on brand. Same for JD Vance, it seems.
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Alonso’s passing still fantastic.
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67th minute goal……remember that theory…!?
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They’d be a decent team if they kept their eyes open when shooting.
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Easy to understand the stat that Celta Vigo don’t score many goals.
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In old school parlance, would Celta Vigo be called a ‘Spanish crack outfit’ by the tabloids?
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Pinocchio gives a presser….
Vance: There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J. Trump
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Up. Face like the flaking, leathery skin of a fake Fendy handbag. Hair like a taxidermy student's bedsit carpet. Voice like a cricothyrotomised yodeller. Morning.
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A few words about the new Teenage Fanclub album and a gig in Granada.
🔥 New @intocreative album review 🔥 🎼 @TeenageFanclub 💿 Do Not Dare To Dream 🏷️ @mergerecords “there’s subtle, nuanced meaning and personal connection in the album’s simple & direct poetry. And it hits home a little more with each repeated listen” intocreative.co.uk/teenage-f…
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