Iain Rowan

@iainrowan.com “Stalled, he thought.” — DRIVING AROUND IN CIRCLES by Iain Rowan. One of the best ‘lost while driving’ stories ever! A companion to his 1st published story (ICE AGE in Nemonymous 2002: “…where horses crunched in slow circles,…” See: dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/ongoing-inde...

New government advice just dropped.

I wonder how much it is to guarantee never ever having a meet and greet with Amol, or any chance of one spontaneously occurring.

The invincible airplane

I genuinely saw this and thought “we’ve really moved a long way from slogans like ‘live, laugh, love’”

Imagine being someone who lives their life like this, terrified of everything, being the End of Days. It’s pitiful.

Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

This is a sad and moving read. Although Archer went to prison for being a perjurer, he still came out of this better and glided back into a better life than the woman he paid for sex.

We already have, Sam. You.

It’s monstrous that people would consider trying to kill 1000 beings that are hundreds of years old and take 150 years to even reach sexual maturity, purely because they interfere with fishing for halibut. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most TV is just this now.

Class solidarity.

Wanna feel old? This is what beloved kids’ toy Action Man™️ looks like today.

This house on Rightmove is a decrepit fixer-up until you reach and look at the third photo here, when it becomes a run-awayer.

Track my mood every day using my copies of the Fontana series of Great Ghost Stories. Today’s a solid Volume 11. What about you?

Still, in good news today our legislators have safeguarded me and those I love from a future of being able to choose not to suffer and die in event of weeks and months of pain when terminally ill.

Every train company in the UK is the Eddie the Eagle of train companies. Every one of them. It’s at the point now when I expect to be late or miss a connection every time I travel. Useless, useless gougers.

Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever

I can disperse these clowns in 30 seconds, just give me a loud speaker and the authority to collect delinquent child maintenance payments.

ICYMI this is what the BBC were up to while Channel 4 were investigating Reform for allegedly breaking the law on party donations

Having a relaxing first day off as the Clacton returning officer after a busy by-election. Phew, that was exhausting work! Wouldn’t want to go through all that again any time soon.

Good to see the Beeb picking up the big story about Reform and running with it.

In other news tonight: BBC buy disconsolate Chris Mason an emotional support puppy. Every journalist, friend or family of journalist, or anyone who owns a notebook banned from the Reform Conference. Tired TV comedy writer with neck pain says oh no, please not the bin again.

when you don't need a weather app (Cat and Dogs beach, Sunderland)

morning

It's the only global what....?

🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...

Today in badly-worded headlines: www.scmp.com/news/people-...

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As the nights draw in, let's get into something spooky with four weeks of WRITING GHOST STORIES, all running online so you can join us from anywhere! www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #spooky #haunted #haunting

Don’t let folks tell you Gen Z students can’t read. Kicked-off my Duke first-year class with this favorite Lydia Davis story - projected text onto a whiteboard so we could annotate by hand. So many smart and insightful readings, by a group of 18 year-olds in their first week of university life.