Laurence Sullivan

“I’d prefer to keep it on, please.” #Eurovisión2026

Very glad to be part of this project. Utilising someone’s work without their knowledge or permission (or even providing credit, an immutable moral right in British law) is stealing, it’s as simple as that. All writers should support this initiative! 📚 dontstealthisbook.com/home#a…

Incredible haunted house bags by Zack Frisbie, each one a functional work of art! 👜👻💼 Also a clever commentary on the legacy of the art we leave behind, but the spooky vibes are immaculate. youtube.com/shorts/x0JVXtz5c…

Reading @katie_rose_o’s ‘I Wanted to be Close to You’, published by the wonderful @fly_press, is akin to a smooth railway ride with endlessly interesting, ever-changing scenery - there is no weak link on this literary journey. A 5* moving, lyrical read! tinyurl.com/ed3eae8x

I guess as a Brit, it’s my current national duty to suggest that this is Gary Barlow’s son serving up a plate of sushi.

Why don’t they keep the #Olympic flame burning for the #Paralympics, too? It makes the latter feel like an afterthought, when it absolutely shouldn’t be. The visual of physically blowing it out and then panning to the paralympians feels premature. #Paris2024  #ClosingCeremony

The returning officer for Blyth looking like she’s casually going to declare for the Cavaliers and try to reinstate the headless corpse of Charles I. 👑#GeneralElection24 #GeneralElection2024

“Do you know what the GB stands for? Giant bills.” ⚡️ Good grief, who came up with that awful line? It’s the slight pause before Penny Mordaunt said it which gets me; clearly a line she’d been fed before coming on stage and then (rightly) hesitated about using it… #BBCDebate

Angela Rayner’s exasperated laugh just then: “Why do you keep pointing at me?!” Did no one brief Penny Mordaunt on how monstrously aggressive it looks constantly wagging her finger at Rayner like a deranged Victorian school mistress?! #BBCDebate

No way the Channel 4 News interviewer I’m watching just asked George Galloway if he ‘must feel like the cat who got the cream’ about the Labour candidate debacle? 😂 Surely it must have been a conscious reference to this televisual monstrosity: youtu.be/KQA2X4yvK_g?si=uzvC…

A whirlwind 24 hours where I graduated from @NorthEnglishes with my PhD, and then arrived home to a delivery of my first academic publication! Thank you to @ClarkLawlor1, @drablackwood and @harry_lofthouse for the special day; and to @jonesrichardj1 for making Smollett happen!

I am proud to announce the publication of my first chapbook, ‘Bouquet of Goodbyes’, with @SampsonLow! Included inside are seven short stories, with five fabulous illustrations from Alban Low. 📖 For just £2.99, you can grab a copy online: sampsonlow.co/2023/10/24/bou… #amwriting

Gosh! The Times Higher Education’s Impact 2023 ratings are out and @NorthumbriaUni is sitting at an impressive number 79 of the top 100 universities globally! 🎉🎉🎉 timeshighereducation.com/stu…

Currently living for the coquettish glances of this Swiss queen in #Eurovision What an icon!

Probably a bit niche, but the chorus of #Norway’s entry for #Eurovision2023 sounds an awful lot like Paolo Buonvino & Skin’s ‘Renaissance’, as featured in the intro for the TV series ‘Medici: Masters of Florence’. Very reminiscent indeed. 🎵#EUROVISION  youtu.be/TETgHZf6ho0

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve passed with PhD Viva with no corrections! 🎉 Many thanks to my supportive team: @ClarkLawlor1, @historylitmed and Allan Ingram, my wonderful examiners Noelle Gallagher and @ClaudvanH, and my excellent chair @ein_haus! #PhDone #AcademicTwitter

In the end, it was Wilf’s own greed and hubris that lost him the game. He could have won alongside Kieran, but I’m so glad he didn’t. He was just too ruthless until the very end. Pretending to be thrilled for everyone at the end, what a fraud! 😂 #TheTraitors

I have to say, I’m loving Ooblets! But it is slightly unnerving being regularly accosted by a gang of Boris Johnson lookalikes in the street… Can’t these little guys go and harass someone else, @ooblets? 😂 (Seriously, this game is great, everyone and their cat should try it!)

I am extremely excited to share my latest publication: ‘Lives Entwined’ with the fabulous @FirewordsMag! 📖 A fictional twist on a very real event which took place in 2015 at Mount Kumgang resort, DPRK, the story has been superbly illustrated by @SheldonZhang2! 🖼 #amwriting