Throwing the Book at Them - A brand new interview series featuring authors discussing fame, power, intrigue and scandal. Hosted by James Fairclough.
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Gore Vidal said that Franklin D. Roosevelt was the equivalent of Rome’s Emperor Augustus. Chronologically that would make Donald Trump the equivalent of Nero.
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The paperback of ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York’, updated to cover the extraordinary events of the last six months, comes out next Thursday!
Pre-order here with 50% off. amzn.to/3PMODOT
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Why didn’t Fergie care about Epstein’s crimes? An exclusive clip looking at what’s in the upcoming paperback of ‘Entitled’ next week. Pre-order here with 50% off! amzn.to/3R4hMpb
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Given Andrew has been shredding documents since last year, is there a case for perverting the course of justice? Former Head of Royal Protection Dai Davies and I discuss…
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Less than a month to go until the release of the ‘Entitled’ paperback with a 10,000 word update containing explosive new revelations about the York family.
Pre-order your copy here with 50% off for those in the UK. amazon.co.uk/Entitled-Mountb…
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the internet is forever unless you wrote an article for a website in 2015
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How Andrew could save the royal family spectator.com/article/how-an… My Spectator Diary
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Andrew's PR Fightback is in Full Swing and Princess Beatrice has Chosen to be Part of It. My latest piece on Substack…
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My favourite books of the year and some to look forward to in 2026. Happy new year happy reading
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I always to recommend a few books of the year and some to look forward to in 26.
My book of the year is this superb compelling delicate scandalous and beautiful life of Buckingham and two kings @lucyhugheshh
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For example, if China or Russia or US billionaire started UK TV channel called Good News, invested 100s of millions of £, took on a brilliant, charismatic broadcaster as main presenter, & pumped out biased views all day, who would stop them? Not Ofcom. Not Electoral Commission.
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Penguin have created the first printed copies of "Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe". There's still proofreading and a ton of other work to do before publication in May, but I couldn't be more excited to see all that research transformed into a book. This book 👇
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Do sign up to my substack which is free.
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This is a bombshell, but it's also an infuriating example of burying the point. It's not until 4,400 words into a 9,000-word piece that we are told that the key stories in one of the most famous science nonfiction books of the 20th century are made up!
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime numbers? The institutionalized, paralyzed man who tapped out allusions to Rilke? Made up to embellish the stories. Probably also: the aphasic patients who detected lies better than neurologically intact people, including Ronald Reagan's insincerity. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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Why I’m Suing Simon & Schuster open.substack.com/pub/andrew… . It is important authors take a stand against this casual behaviour by corporate executives.
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The story breaks.
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Mt new series on 'Throwing the Book at Them'
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The British Library management's response to the hack was woeful from day one. They were more interested in 'nothing to see here' spin than actually fixing things.
Following a major #CyberHack of its systems two years ago the #BritishLibrary remains in crisis.
Simon Bowie argues that for the institution to recover it needs refocus on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function.
@LSEImpactBlog
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Good column in The Times about Nigel Farage and why what he said at Dulwich College forty-plus years ago does matter today:
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