Peter Mitchell

To mark five years of this book existing I've been collating some of the praise it's received from grateful readers

Read an entire thing by James Holland about the Berchtesgarden yesterday and tbf it's a magnificent achievement to've developed a whole personal style of writing about the Nazis that requires you to stop every single paragraph and shoehorn in a clarification that you do in fact think they were bad

🐳 EPISODE 33 🐳 As the famous Vera Lynn song goes, "Whale meat again", or whatever she said. This cetacean-sized episode is all about eating whales, and a terrible insight into the things Pete is willing to put into his mouth. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

Rumour has it that if Abdul El Sayed wins in Michigan, he will force Charles Entertainment Cheese to convert to Islam and become Mohammed Entertainment Cheese. Nobody is talking about this.

eat shit, nazis

I'm doing an event at the @litandphil.bsky.social in November - come and listen to me and Neil Pearson off the telly talk about Newcastle's greatest twentieth-century prose writer, handsome devil and all-round legend Jack Common, for the Books on Tyne Festival: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/books-...

Once again, nobody seems to be asking if the Greens should demand that local Labour parties distance themselves from racist immigration policies or support for genocide

You can't win em all

Danny Kruger's words on Muslims, if you replaced references to Islam with 'international Jewry' or 'the Bishop of Rome', might appear familiar to fans of Western Medieval and modern history

"Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth, and for Reform in Newcastle to stop liking racist tweets and facebook posts" - James Connolly

from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish business of securing what you can

🐳 EPISODE 32 🐳 Herman Melville and Karl Marx were temporal contemporaries, describing the same changes in the world through their work. Only one was horny, though. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts from. 🐋 www.patreon.com/posts/172339...

I'm doing an event at the @litandphil.bsky.social in November - come and listen to me and Neil Pearson off the telly talk about Newcastle's greatest twentieth-century prose writer, handsome devil and all-round legend Jack Common, for the Books on Tyne Festival: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/books-...

walked over the Howgills yesterday, properly magic little fells

Properly loved recording this one. Features Pynchon, Barthelme, Donne, Marvell, Marx, CLR James, Melville as the GOAT of Looking At Things, lots of rope and a big old whale getting murdered

Read this in the voice of The Dude:

Schedules permitted, this week's episode is going to be one for the ages as we indulge in Marxist analysis of a single sentence in Moby-Dick.

Had an absolute pisser of a week but then recorded what felt to me like a completely delightful episode of @thewhale1851.bsky.social and all was briefly right again with the world. It's out tomorrow so give it a listen. For all I know it's complete shit

Oh is Jeffrey Archer dead. Oh no. What a shame

Sometimes people put a stank on it when they say the word and pretending they don't is naive.

Just picked my cat up in both hands and held him at arm's length while he unloaded about two pints of liquid shit on the kitchen floor. Like the Devil's own icing bag

bellend update

since my co-host on @thewhale1851.bsky.social is relentlessly, bludgeoningly, perhaps even tastelessly Welsh, I've been trying to remember whether Moby-Dick engages with Welshness at any point. Surely it must do - does anyone know?

Grow up.

If you've a few pounds to spare, consider donating some to a lovely queer and trans bookshop in Glasgow who've been having their windows smashed and sadly need to install roll shutters to be safe. They're close to the target, so help push it over? www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

grease the bottom

Exclusive audio of @leighsus.bsky.social, who reads the news on the wireless, being too civilised to say the word "hentai"

Imagine showing the sea your naked body and a pod of 40 distressed whales surfaces later that day.

Lads I think Charles Moore just lent his weight to the Rhodes Must Fall movement! Incredible news!! I think he also maybe wants to fuck a statue but let's just set that to one side for now and enjoy the win shall we

I don't know who's been putting these pictures of Peter Sutcliffe up all over Newcastle but I must say it's in pretty poor taste

ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held

damn, son!

me: hey so I was thinking of maybe watching a documenta- streaming platform: about MURDER? me: no I mean I was maybe thinking like a history show, or like sp: MURDER? YOU WANNA WATCH WOMEN BEING KILLED? BY SERIAL KILLERS? me: no honestly something on the Ottomans maybe or sp: DEATH! DEATH!

fwiw here's what I've been doing today, which isn't actually anywhere near as hopeless as it might sound www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

lol, "horniman"

all the lads are here

A stranded right whale, drawn by Captain Colnett (1793).

Frederick Cuvier's happy sperm whale (including whale schlonger) from his 1836 Natural History of Whales.

I'm easily pleased and I think this here is a very good joke, actually

This is on Sunday, if anyone has any spare sterling.

did my five year old draw some sort of cat 9-11

“The pogrom had bad intelligence” is really a bad stance for a Labour MP to take