Paul David Gould
@pauldavidgould
Author: Last Dance at the Disco for Deviants, a state-of #Russia novel/ #LGBT #thriller set in 1990s Moscow | buy @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | alum @unibirmingham.bsky.social + @faberacademy.bsky.social | #Brighton based | sub-editor @financialtimes.com
Coming to Brighton Pride? Have a fab day — BUT PLEASE *DON'T TRASH OUR CITY* It's simple: if you can carry heavy, full bottles of drink, you can carry *lighter, empty* bottles and take them home. Happy #Pride! #loveBrighton #hatelitter #trash @visitbrighton.bsky.social @brightonpride.bsky.social
Brilliant @newstatesman1913.bsky.social cover illustration (last week!) by @andrecarrilho.bsky.social — totally captures Andy Burnham's arrival in #DowningStreet (and Starmer's departure) #ukpolitics #burnham #starmer #cartoon #satire #labourparty #primeminister
An old @financialtimes.com article but one I'm proud of! My 2010 review of #Russian #Soviet-era #dissident #art, some with a #queer / #LGBTQ flavour It's a story of #Gorbachev's #perestroika & #glasnost (and the freedoms #Russia has lost under #Putin) *FREE TO READ* as.ft.com/r/3a7f932a-8...
Kudos to Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social for calling out the scourge of 'carspreading' Christian points out that cars are getting WAY too big (and therefore more dangerous). Do you agree? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #cars #SUVS #ChelseaTractors #congestioncharge #parking
On #holiday? At the beach? Read my #Russian noir #thriller Last Dance, a #gay love story set in 1990s #Russia pre #Putin So: suspense, heartbreak💔 and DISCOS!🪩 Buy @wiltonsquare.bsky.social @eyebooks.bsky.social @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social @citybookshove.bsky.social @kemptownbookshop.bsky.social
It's a bit rich of toxic Kemi Badenoch (a woman who can't open her mouth without sneering or flinging insults) to call Bridget Philipson 'spiteful'. She should have a listen to herself one of these days
What has #Putin's #Russia 'achieved' in #Ukraine? Carnage. Death. Destruction of schools, apartments, power supplies. Зачем? Какую пользa обычным россиянам? Sadistic, cowardly and PATHETIC. FFS #Russian citizens, GET RID of yr bloodthirsty dictator. #ДолойПутина Остановить войну
Down Memory Lane @unibirmingham.bsky.social Big thanks @davidep82.bsky.social & Laura Price-Scott of #Birmingham's #alumni office! As part of #LGBTQ history, I discussed my #novel Last Dance (pub'd by @unboundsocials.bsky.social now @wiltonsquare.bsky.social) #Russia #Putin #gay rights & #writing
Ice-rink #gay romance Closeted #Russian boy Steamy #same-sex love #Heated #Rivalry fan? Check out my post-Soviet pre- #Putin suspense novel 'Last Dance' Buy it @wiltonsquare.bsky.social @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social @kemptownbookshop.bsky.social @citybookshove.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
Catch me on MON 9 FEB @unibirmingham.bsky.social with #alumni tsar @davidep82.bsky.social in #LGBTQ History Month ➡️Law Building 1pm, FREE but register at shorturl.at/TnCI5 We'll discuss my #Russia-set #pre- #Putin #gay #novel Last Dance, studying #Russian #journalism #creativewriting & #publishing
Another American shot dead in Minneapolis, weeks after the murder of Renee Good. And now — while governor Tim Walz and mayor Jacob Frey call for restraint— the sickening spectacle of lie-spewing Trump-appointed Stepford harridan Kristi Noem
Unbelievable barefaced lying on @channel4news.bsky.social by #Russia’s OSCE representative Polyansky, blaming #Ukraine & #Zelensky for the war that spawn-of-Satan #Putin STARTED. Fact: it was #Russia that invaded. #slavaUkraini #PutinOut #dumpTrump
Folks, please support this vigil for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of #Trump's ICE - Mon 12 Jan 6:30pm US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London SW11 *Wear black, if possible, bring an umbrella stoptrump.org.uk
📢#residents of St Michaels Place + Clifton Hill, #Brighton PLEASE DON'T TRASH OUR #NEIGHBOURHOOD *Keep dry #trash at home *Secure-wrap to stop spills *Cut food waste to deter seagulls & rats *Crush boxes so they take up less space *Use nearby empty bins instead *Respect our #keyworker binmen
Interested in #1990s #Russia pre- #Putin, #Soviet collapse #capitalism, #gay rights? Join me & @docdoak.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social #Russian dept *6pm *MON 3 NOV* to discuss my #novel 'Last Dance', a tale of intrigue, heartbreak💔 + #discos🪩 📍Humanities Rsch Space 7 Woodland Road BS8 1TB
Wow, my #Russian #novel 'Last Dance' featured in an article by Connor Doak @docdoak.bsky.social of @bristoluni.bsky.social for @aseees.bsky.social Set pre- #Putin in post- #Soviet #Russia, it tackles #gay/ #lgbtq #identity #capitalism #homophobia #coldwar #glasnost AND discos tinyurl.com/48w8cfsv
Absolutely SICKENING to see #Trump *literally* roll out the red carpet for warmonger #Putin — AND comes away empty handed: no #ceasefire, no #sanctions, no deal. Vlad has played Donnie and won. Pathetic — and ominous for #Ukraine
Big thanks @docdoak.bsky.social of @bristoluni.bsky.social for our #ICCEES Q&A @uclssees.bsky.social Great to meet #academics & #researchers in #Russian & #eastEurope and #lgbt studies For a taste of #1990s #Russia pre- #Putin find my #novel Bookshop.org @waterstones.bsky.social, Hive or Amazon
📢 #academics #journalists #thinktanks #publications on #Russia Join me & @docdoak.bsky.social (@bristoluni.bsky.social) @ #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social TUE22 JULY We'll talk post #Soviet #lgbt #humanrights #capitalism + #glasnost — in an era that paved the way to #Putin Visit lnkd.in/eDbXaZE8
Zero Sum by @charleshecker.bsky.social is a must-read for #business, #journalists or #academics interested in #Russia It covers the 1980s-2000s up until #Putin's #war on #Ukraine (asking: does #capitalism = democracy?) It's also a vivid picture of post #Soviet upheaval, from #poverty to #oligarchs
As the #Ukraine #war grinds on (with no #ceasefire in sight), step back to 1990s #Moscow, to #arms reductions and more freedoms — yet also an era that paved the way for #Putin #Soviet collapse, jungle #capitalism, covert #gay love — all in 'Last Dance' in the #Russia section @dauntbooks.bsky.social
Just pub'd @ftweekend.com — @mishaglenny.bsky.social's review of 'Illegals: #Russia’s Most Audacious Spies & the Plot to Infiltrate the West' by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social It details efforts by #Putin's #Kremlin (and #USSR) to infiltrate Western society 'in plain sight' on.ft.com/43zaCfg
Just heard #NigelFarage on BBC @radio4rne.bsky.social Radio 4 #BroadcastingHouse with @paddyroc.bsky.social . . . Whoah, the hypocrisy of dissing #Starmer’s #defence deal with the #EU when #Farage has been an apologist for #Putin, saying #Russia was ‘provoked’ into invading #Ukraine
So now #Trump threatens 100% #tariffs on non-US-made movies, supposedly to protect #Hollywood? Doesn't he know that the woes of studios like Universal, @paramountpictures.bsky.social, @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social isn't down to 'foreign films' — it's down to US-based Netflix and Amazon. Duh!
Zelensky urges #Trump to visit #Ukraine to see the death + destruction caused by #Putin whom he so admires Donald: stop treating #Russia as a fair player! It isn't @lukeharding1968.bsky.social reports @theguardian.com from #Sumi tinyurl.com/yymrscep Right: a memorial to kids killed in Krivyi Rih