Aidan Cottrell Boyce

AW23/24

@SBlackwood121 @FmrRepMTG Genuine question: why doesn’t this happen in any other countries? There were 1,173 fatal police shootings in the US last year. There were 2 fatal police shootings in the UK.

You’re committing a category error. Lawful carry and filming are protected. Deadly force is a separate test that turns on imminent threat at the moment force is used, not hypotheticals or partisan analogies. Quiet fact most miss: federal use of force reviews hinge on a second by second timeline, and later disarming does not retroactively justify earlier shots. So are we applying the actual legal standard, or swapping it out for a story that feels fair to our side?

I impeached Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, those were my articles of impeachment that passed in the House of Representatives. I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement. However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment. Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm. I support American’s 1st and 4th amendment rights. There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. MAGA, consider it like this. We lost our minds when we watched Biden’s FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6’ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors. Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6’ers house while Biden’s FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest. Then Biden’s FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden’s FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction? Both sides need to take off their political blinders. You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying.

Excellently mad book from the inimitable Katharina Volckmer 😙 👌 @PressIndigoThe

What an amazing book. Amazing feat really. So clear, concise, conversational but at the same time startling, strange, deeply moving.

Help support the amazing work done by BTTC in Moulsecoomb! @frankcottrell_b @bttcofficial crowdfunder.co.uk/p/brighton-tab…

Just finished this moving, startlingly original novel, which subtly slips a needle under the skin of the present moment & wiggles it about to devastating effect. At one level the portrait of a marriage, at another it’s a meditation on our anxieties about time, ageing, & - by juxtaposing the apocalyptic mood of C17th with our own – the end of history. Strongly recommended. @acottrellboyce @GrantaBooks

@jcwilsonauthor Thank you James!

What a great night listening to Gabriel Flynn discuss his debut novel Poor Ghost with @acottrellboyce. Touching on class, storytelling and Gabriel's evocative depiction of Manchester (fishing for hand grenades with magnets, anyone?). Pick up a signed copy while you can!

TOMORROW! Excited to hear Gabriel Flynn discuss his cracking debut novel with @acottrellboyce!

@acottrellboyce Can't wait!! 🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poor-ghost-g…

@itsmetawseef @BlackwellsMcr Yes!🙌

@acottrellboyce @BlackwellsMcr I’m going to try and come!

Do come along to this at @BlackwellsMcr if you’re in town! Or even if you aren’t!

@jacobin I have no idea - having read this - how you reached this conclusion.

Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither. jacobin.com/2025/04/pope-f…

@NewStatesman The welfare state should compete with private employers for the quality of life it provides. It should be the case that the welfare state allows people to live at a reasonable standard so that employers raise their offer to workers to meet that standard.

This week's New Statesman leader: Ending the welfare trap Labour must not only make benefits less attractive, but make work more so. #Echobox=1741787497-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/new-statesman-…

Next Thursday we are excited to host a cohort of scholars for a symposium as part of a British Academy funded project on "British Israelism and the Imperial Imagination." One of our contributors, @acottrellboyce, offers an overview of the subject: cdamm.org/articles/briti…

This is a wonderful book. Psychedelic and alien yet recognisable, moving, precise. Many congratulations @PeirenePress @kristinereffstrup

Get excited. This book is unreal. @GrantaBooks

Look what's arrived! Congratulations @JoMcMillan 'The Accidental Immigrants is a triumph: ferociously political and yet deeply personal, it is soaring feat of the imagination, tethered firmly to the here and now' @acottrellboyce @thebookseller @BAbooksellers

@dan_sinykin Manchester Boddy

@AaronBastani Exhume McCririck

Can you imagine if the UK had a presidential system with a primary? Those running to be Conservative nominee for president: Nigel Farage Jeremy Clarkson Andrew Tate Kemi Badenoch Stanley Johnson Katie Hopkins Sol Campbell Schoonerscorer It would make the U.S. seem chilled