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Nick Hubble
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Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · May 13
Super excited that my new book Culture Wars in Britain is out in paperback today. There is a launch at Waterstones Aberystwyth tonight at 7pm in which I discuss it with @emmas.bsky.social: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
If you can't make that, the book is currently from Amazon and direct... 1/
Promotional slide for Nick Hubble's Culture Wars in Britain: The Myth of Exceptionalism and the Reality of Division now available in paperback and EBook from Emerald Publishing in their Society Now series.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
Some sort of pack that came from Lidl possibly - it was at the back of the cupboard under the sink. You put all the shelves and side bits in a plastic bag and leave it for 4 hours.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
*fates (although sometimes the gates are actually against you too).

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
Hence I had to take 5pm zoom call on tablet but the microphone permissions were turned off and... Sometimes the gates are against you (although I did finally manage to get the permissions on after about 20 minutes fiddling.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
I was pleased with how this came out. The only snag was I got a bit too much of the noxious cleaning stuff on my hand, which altered the surface skin sufficiently that the laptop refused to accept my finger print. And because some of the numbers on keyboard no longer function, I can't enter the PIN
Newly cleaned Bosch electric oven

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
With Harrison's The End of Everything shortlisted for the Booker in a year when Priest's posthumous book on Ballard appeared, it seems appropriate to post this analysis of The Evidence and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again.
Amongst the Flotsam and Jetsam of the Postwar State: Christopher Priest, The Evidence (2020) and M John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (2020)
It seems appropriate to post this discussion now given the prominence this year of Priest and Harrison, with the publication of the former’s posthumous non-fiction book on Ballard (completed by Nin…
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, I'll take 'you're welcome', thanks.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
But it's got such a happy ending.

Your post set me off looking up Goodreads review of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again for comparison and diverted me with a long review that reads that novel as a pro Brexit novel.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d
It might be Labour and Tories in first two places, but their combined votes are still under 50%. Meanwhile Restore are on 6% and the combined Reform, Restore & Tory vote is 51%. The Burnham bounce is from Greens - the overall story is England shifting further right.
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d
Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 26% (+1)
CON: 23% (+1)
RFM: 22% (-1)
LDM: 11% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-1)
RES: 6% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 18-21 Sep.
Changes w/ 11-15 Sep.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Nick Hubble

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d
Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 26% (+1)
CON: 23% (+1)
RFM: 22% (-1)
LDM: 11% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-1)
RES: 6% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 18-21 Sep.
Changes w/ 11-15 Sep.

Reposted by Nick Hubble

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Wales Governance Centre | Canolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru @walesgovernance.bsky.social · 2d
👇 Wythnos nesaf / Next week 👇
Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu lansiad llyfrau newydd am y refferenda datganoli yn 1979 a 1997 | Join us to mark the launch of two books telling the stories behind two very different Welsh devolution referendums. #Wales #Datganoli #Devolution
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Lansiad Llyfr | Book Launch - Wales 1979 and 1997
Join us for the launch of 'Soul On Fire' that tells the story of the 1997 Referendum on Welsh Devolution, with John Osmond and Betsan Powys
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