No one who's ever read this book on my recommendation hasn't been blown away by it. (Or they're afraid to tell me.)

Wise

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Perfect

We all saw you having dark thoughts about the publishing industry again

First there were too many gays, then too many depresseds and of course too many transes. Now it’s too many neurodivergents. And why should we be happy if we could just be normal. Arseholes.

On current form I assume the US firing squad is going to miss?

Yeah, I loved reading those! But for pure parental performance fun nothing beat the Mr Gum books…

(I have actually just finished writing a thing in a not dissimilar style to WWTOS that could almost be called “What We’re Teaching Our Tech Bro”, so if you could tell publishers to buy that instead I’d be very happy)

Publishers: you heard Will…

(Happy to say that reading to my kids was absolutely one of the greatest joys of my life - except for the brief period when one of had a couple of David Walliams books…)

Yeah but he’s trying to promote more AI usage (and so make money for his company) by appealing to the worst sort of idiots - he may not actually believe any of what he’s saying. But then again: look at the guy. Yeah, you’re probably right …

I tend to assume that all posts like this are in bad faith - i.e. the original poster is acting like the worst kind of arsehole because he knows it will get lots of attention - but who can even tell anymore…

Surely *surely* SURELY nobody in real life is actually as big a prick as this guy

Still holding out for the FIFA Prize in Literature

Commiserations to my fellow Nobel prize losers. Same time next year?

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

This didn’t turn out anything like I expected based upon on the first 50 or so pages. Quite odd and very much recommended. (Hand = model’s own)