Mikey-boy

South West based writer

[Mikey-boy @MikeyboyWriter]

2 years after winning The Irish Novel Fair and failing to secure an agent or publication, my next novel, The Cocklemen, is among the winners of The Book Edit Writers’ Prize.
Lightning can strike twice.
So here we go, let’s try this again.
Maybe this time it will happen.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BREAKING: For the 59th time since early March, Trump says he's close to a deal with Iran

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it.

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress.

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves.

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.

[Mikey-boy @MikeyboyWriter]

@BeckyLTuch Oh definitely. Producing my best work but my faith in securing an agent or getting a novel published is at the lowest point it’s even been. It doesn’t matter that I’m a good writer, writing interesting and entertaining stories. I’m not what the market wants. Fine but I write on.

[Mikey-boy @MikeyboyWriter]

@DanNeidle Call me mad but instead of cutting taxes by that much I’d split it between education, health and defence. Paying taxes is an act of patriotism.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Urgent message.

[Andy Burnham for Makerfield @andy4makerfield]

Here’s the playlist in full 👀

Listen to it here: https://t.co/1eLDUUu8AX

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

UPDATE: My medical licence suspension review is next Wednesday – 20 May – 9AM – St James Building, Manchester.

As many of you know, besides being arrested 5 times, the pro‑'israel' lobby also reported me to the British medical regulator @GMCUK.

I won the first investigation.

The lobby escalated their vexatious complaints and began smearing me in the press.

The GMC opened a second investigation.

The lobby demanded I be referred to a tribunal (to place conditions on or suspend doctors while under investigation).

The GMC referred me to an Interim Orders Tribunal at the @the_mpts.

I won.

The lobby demanded I be re‑referred. They demanded my suspension.

Health Secretary @wesstreeting - who is funded by the 'israel' lobby - made unfounded public comments against my win. He also threatened the tribunal with lawfare.

Eight days later, the GMC referred me to the tribunal – AGAIN.

The second tribunal suspended me for 15 months on 26 November 2025.

Next week at the review, I will put forward my case again.

The existing suspension can be maintained, replaced with conditions, or revoked.

Remember: I have never had a single patient complaint in my 7‑year career.

This is political persecution. Because I opposed genocide and supremacism.

This is a public hearing. You are welcome to attend.

We will fight. We will win.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Free Britain 🇬🇧.

📅 Date: 20 May 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 – 17:00
📍 Address: St James Building, 79 Oxford St, Manchester M1 6FQ

[Ramita Navai @ramitanavai]

Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @BAFTA and the judges for a great evening and a great honour.

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

With the local elections coming up don't let the news media bury the truth about Farage, Nathan Gill and Russia.

On September 16, 2014, Farage and Nathan Gill made speeches to the European Parliament parroting several of the same Russian propaganda lies.

Could this have just been a coincidence? I don't think so. It looks coordinated. Either Farage gave Nathan Gill his talking points, or Russia was providing its talking points to both of them.

They both called Ukraine "The Ukraine," a term which refers back to the old Slavic word for borderland, which Russia uses to deny Ukraine's nationhood.

They both used the expression "poking the Russian bear."

They both parroted the Russian lie that there had been a coup in Kyiv in 2014.

They both parroted Russian lies about NATO and EU expansion.

They both repeated the Russian claim that the real threat was Muslim extremism, a claim that Putin had very effectively used to distract Western leaders from Russian aggression and its hybrid war against the West.

Reform UK initially claimed Farage barely knew Gill. That turned out to be a filthy lie.

Let's follow the Hungarian example and get off our sofas into the polling booths to give Farage and his media backers a kick in the brexits that they will never forget.

And just in passing, here is Farage with the Russian Ambassador in 2013 – the same Ambassador Farage denied having met, and who later boasted of having "crushed the British to the ground". Finally, a reminder that Farage was heavily promoted by Russian TV before the BBC took up that role.

A vote for Reform UK is a vote for Putin.

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

I see Farage has been referred to the standards watchdog over his £5m grift. It would be a shame if everyone was talking about just before Thursday’s elections.

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.

The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.

I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.

[Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social @RichardBentall]

Let's be clear about this:

A large personal gift to a politician is a bribe.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

Note to those at the back :

You can be appalled by the stabbing of 2 Jewish people in Golders Green

AND

Be appalled by the war crimes of Israel

Period.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

A new Banksy sculpture appears in central London….people are saying it is depicting "a politician or other official blinded by patriotism and walking directly into danger" 🔥

Banksy confirmed the work is his by posting this video on his IG👇

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Nigel Farage secretly accepting a FIVE MILLION POUNDS gift from a Thai-based crypto tycoon is one of the biggest political financial scandals of this or any era.

Farage, for himself not the many.

https://t.co/fFvC77xqYt

[John Petrie #European @Petrie_JohnC]

The BBC has foreign correspondents of the highest standard: Lyse Doucet. Orla Guerin, John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen & others.

It is their biased UK politics journalists that are damaging its reputation: Mason, Kuennsberg, Bruce, Zeffman, Young. Needs a clear out.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Same day, same outlet (the BBC):

Somalis "hijack" ships.
The US merely "boards" them.

This is how consent is manufactured in real time.