No power for half of Cuba and none for all of Iraq.
‘In lieu of flowers, the family and Zipporah Films kindly request that you support your local PBS affiliate or independent bookstore in Frederick Wiseman’s memory’ zipporahfilms.com
We don’t need to grant online attention to every egregiously racist utterance in 2026
That makes complete sense – and reminds me to get my DVDs and Blu-rays out of storage this holiday.
Would absolutely listen to test match commentary by the groundsmen.
‘Palestine 36’ has an astonishingly graceful disclaimer at the end of the credits. Also, good to see Orde Wingate played as a psychopath, though the long hair was unnecessary.
I haven’t had reason to pass through King’s Cross today, which I normally do, so this is merely anecdotal, it’s true.
The people with the wheelie suitcases have left. London is mine.
The tone of The Odyssey trailer suggests that Matt Damon won’t be spending much time chez Calypso or with the Phaeacians. But that’s okay; I felt very relaxed about Briseis (Rose Byrne) killing Agamemnon during the sack of Troy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
@hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
This is very good, via @marta-zboralska.bsky.social (and I say that as the daughter of someone who was learning the King’s English in the 1930s.) open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...
"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically".
apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...
I thought ‘private residences’ might be spinnable. Let’s see what happens.
New rule of thumb: if it appeared in a National Front manifesto or poster from the 1970s, it will turn up again soon.
The number of children homeless in England is the highest since records began.
england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
The FT on the subject – the mayor should not agree to this www.ft.com/content/dab0...
This is really important on housing in London (and the FT has also reported on the government thinking about letting developers off the 35% affordable housing requirement) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ has this covered.
Incroyable.
Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of @apollo-magazine.com about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes. apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...
In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Glad to be in this month's Apollo, writing about Evan Walters's The Communist (c.1932): colour, ideas, Wales. Also mentioned: chapels, gospels and preachers (including the Manic Street variety), & being sceptical of rhetoric, like the little chap at the front.
apollo-magazine.com/evan-walters...
Doesn’t seem that inchoate to me, unfortunately.
I’m not either of those, but Pieter the Elder dropped the ‘h’ and his descendants put it back. Mentions of members of the family close together can look strange – but some people mind a lot (as I once learnt the hard way).
I’ve written something about Tom Lehrer for @apollo-magazine.com as a very small token of appreciation for his marvellous songs apollo-magazine.com/tom-lehrer-s...
