James Alistair Henry

Oh blimey, I'm so sorry. x

Good work those staff, hope you enjoy.

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Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

I save that for my secret erotica writing career

Ha, that's great!

I absolutely did.

... and not to sound defensive, but someone had already take the penname 'James Henry' for their crime novelling, so it was either my full name or a completely made up one. I was leaning towards 'Crystal O'Shaunessy' but I felt I'd never live up to it if I had to do a live event.

I honestly would have gone with 'James Henry' but some OAF has already picked that as their penname so I had to go the whole hog. :(

*small voice* also it is my actual name?

I know you shouldn't read your online reviews but 'the authors name is so pretentious it made me mad' stung a bit (5 stars though, so I'll take it).

:)

Madam I am BRITISH

All of this. Plus their makers stole all our work, are trying to change our IP laws to lionise this theft, took a sledgehammer to the creative economy and successfully reframed predictive text generation as the zenith of artistic achievement

Also, the fascism

That said, and this is 100% true, one kid turned up Trump's Art of the Deal (cover printed out and worn as a sandwich board type deal) he was oranged up and everything, it was amazing. And completely following the rules, so well played that parent, well played.

You have to get the details right or NOTHING MATTERS

Sir, I salute you.

Obviously my own children were dressed as Julien Sorel from The Red and the Black and the Golem from Gustav Meyrink's eponymous The Golem, although the following year I gave up and they went as a combined Alien Vs Predator (pics not found).

I had to be dragged away in the end and later got an email explaining I didn't actually have the authority to expel parents, let alone pupils.

Flashbacks to taking my kids to their primary school for World Book Day and realising half the parents there didn't seem to know what books were.

The trouble, I feel, with mainstream media people wigging out at *this* stage in the epistemic collapse of liberal civilisation is that they've been there for all the preceding stages, and often done their very best to normalise them, while sneering at anyone who said "This will end badly."

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.

for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick

Watching world events unfold in a weirdly distant way, like 'I see, you're going to do *that*, are you? And now they're... yes, well, that seems logical, I suppose. And now all those people over there are dead. *wanders off* Which is how it starts, of course.

This is why I love Mona Lisa Overdrive: proper cyberpunk London geezers! I'm 90% sure @greatdismal.bsky.social based the character of Petal on Don Henderson, or maybe I just hear him doing the gruff dialogue.

Just like in real life.

I'll be at this panel on Saturday at Portsmouth Central Library, where we'll be attempting to "demystify publishing" (something which will be very useful for me, never mind the audience). Please do come along if you can – it would be lovely to see some friendly faces!

wegottickets.com/event/683469

I get about four a day. At this point, if I get an email with the title of a book of mine in the subject line, I delete it unread.

Or Cheers! even

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