Jonathan Foyle

A noted specialist in good order and discipline.

The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen

A cynic might suggest they were made by one hand.

Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT.

Newspaper headlines: 'Trump turns the screw' and 'Farage's pal betrays Britain' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's response to a US-backed plan to end the war with Russia leads Saturday's papers.

Traitors in our midst: no competition for... Fergie and - oh, what's that over there? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kirkstall Abbey

That's a hot mess of reassembled salvage, but @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social knows Notts better than me and may have the revised Pevsner edition.

AI should be CA: Cognitive Abdication

Apologies- Jiminy Cricket/ Chimney-Cricket... I'll fetch my coat

If it were Birmingham Cricket Club it could be Chimney Cricket

Inside Pugin’s St Giles: The Gothic Revival Church That Stunned Victorian Britain | HENI Talks Step inside St Giles, Cheadle – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’s dazzling Gothic Revival Catholic church that stunned Victorian Britain. Completed in 1846, this “jewel box” interior is one of the most...

A new film, on Pugin's wondrous St Giles, Cheadle. heni.com/talks/inside...

The Duets album cover- the Barbra and Aretha songs are 👌

She said, with a Rye grin

That's a great phrase. Hope it's not copyrighted.

Brumbelievable

Ouch. Football chimneys.

WHAT a doorway

Mermaid Street, Rye

I'm so sorry to hear it. Recall exasperation at the delayed response. Hope you're improving.

Took the UK five years to conclude that not taking action to stem the spread of viral disease, after watching mass casualties spreading from China to North Italy, had consequences.

Publow!

Crepuscularity, Somerset

What if they confirm it?

Joyous

Lady Macbeth

Da Tonino on Via del Governo Vecchio for a homely and good value lunch