Martin Locock

Project manager, poet, author, archaeologist.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Today we remember Jo and everything she represented. 🙏🏻

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@alexmassie

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

1. This statement contains several inaccurate or confused claims.

First, Edwards says the bill is only for those “at the very end of their lives.”

But the bill’s “6-month prognosis” criterion is very broad: 1 in 5 of those eligible will actually have at least 3 years to live.

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

odd that Labour wants to retire Nye Bevan as the father of the NHS and replace him with Harold Shipman

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Apparently a Labour MP is poised to bring back the poorly written very dangerous Assisted Suicide Bill. A bill so defective not a single Royal College or Disability Organisation supports it. Given that it's a Labour MP I want to up this thread.

[daily zen @dailyzen]

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." — Heraclitus, Fragments

[Catherine Warr @HiddenYorkshire]

in ancient toimes
handreds of years before the dawn of 'istry
lived a strange race of people...

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

[on my death bed]
"Why didn't I just buy a normal bed?"

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Donald Trump’s completely unhinged.

[Chrissie Hynde @ChrissieHynde]

Hi All!

XCH

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@maggieserota *blows smoke from gun barrel* Unsubscribed.

[The Real Rodney Lacroix @RealRodLacroix]

Are you there, impending project deadline? It's me, Windows Updates.

[My Martin Amis @mymartinamis]

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT!

The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸)

🎉 AFTER AMIS 🎉 takes you from noon to midnight with one fabulous conversation after another, culminating in an afterparty for the ages.

We’ll also be celebrating the launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, produced by @CambridgeUP

More detail to follow.

Note it in your calendars. This is going to be something special.

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Loved this. Reliable rule of reading fiction is that every time you pick up a book by a mid twentieth century British woman novelist it will turn out to be a banger. I think that era is of the under-appreciated peaks of the history of the novel.

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@Skint_Eastwood1 A pedestrian crossing the road has priority. She should have waited (without using the horn) until they had crossed.

[Leo Robson @leorobsonwriter]

It has been three years since the writer Martin Amis died (where where you?). Here is the broadest, most generous and recent of the seven-ish articles I published on his work, it appeared in Vinduet (h/t @simenvgoalso available in Norwegian)
@mymartinamis

https://t.co/AuqOrsu6Ga

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@thinkingshivers "He was just a writer, with a carelessness about his craft that could only come from using language models to do the writing."

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@SanSip the list's light on comedy

[Martin Locock @mlocock]

@DavidSc67360929 @SanSip It's a list of best novels in English, so the contrary is true- translations into English surprisingly common.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

The most unambiguous form of racism in the UK by far is hatred of Jews by Muslims. This isn’t microaggressions. This isn’t DEI and equity of outcome. This is firebombs. This is a Jew kidnapped and tortured. This is continual plots to mass murder Jews. This is random Jews attacked and murdered.