@danigaravelli.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Those must have been epic shots! I did look into Terme Tettuccio, though I didn’t pay to enter, and it seemed magnificent.
The best-looking building in Scotland, I'm saying
[From Simon Phipps's Brutal Scotland exhibition @ Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow]
More brilliant reporting on the Union Street fire from @glasgowbell.bsky.social
Every time we’re in that part of Italy we always try to go to Montecatini Alto. The kids always love going on the funicular. Lovely part of the country.
It was tempting. But my husband is a huge fan of funiculars and it felt like a betrayal to board this spectacular specimen without him, lol. I will be back!
My cousin was showing me photos of her cycling pilgrimage from Lucca to Rome along the Via Francigena the other day. It looked v difficult. “Weren’t you tempted to give up?” I asked her. “Yes I was, “ she replied, “but every time I saw the road head steeply upwards I just said another Ave Maria.”
I kept seeing this flashing by at Montecatini in Terme on the train to Florence, so this morning, on a whim, I got off there only to find it was not, as I had assumed, one of the historic spas but a graveyard. Truly a city of the dead
Morrissey is such a mad old ham. I love it. He’s like a Victorian- on those posts he does he always sounds like a consumptive aunt in 1896 writing back from travels ‘they presented me with an entirely indigestible mess of stewed aubergine and a wine so rough as to be vinegar….the train was vile’ etc
Liza Minnelli is 80 today. This is a very obvious choice but it is right, simply because it is one of the greatest things humans achieved during the otherwise dreary 20th century. Mein Herr from Cabaret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjO...
Yes, I saw it. It was excellent
"Doctor, I have trouble sleeping."
"Go and see the great singer Morrissey, you'll be asleep in no time."
"But Doctor..."
His accompanying documentary is on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight.
This book by Stephen McGinty is the definitive, forensic, deliberately unsensational telling of a tragedy that destroyed lives, devastated a town & - thanks to the tireless campaigning of the parents- changed the law/ the country. It feels important that events have been recorded so meticulously.
The older you get the more you realise how little you know ;)
I like this thought; it feels exactly right
He thinks he’s invincible just like his creator did. Imagine the audacity required to take that on at 25/26.
I think what I like most about the David is the way it captures the absolute self-assurance of youth. He’s handsome, he is fit, he is perfectly proportioned and he doesn’t harbour a second’s doubt that he is going to vanquish Goliath.
I mean the SPS and the government both
They just don't seem willing to do the things that might stop this
It's *so* good - perfectly structured, full of latent anger but, as you say, restrained; full of lines I'd cut off my right arm to have written. Brilliant intro, brilliant outro...
Oh WOW! Hermione Lee is publishing a biography of Anita Brookner!! Sound the @backlisted.bsky.social klaxon!! www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
Do you like excellence about his ex-excellency? Then this piece of brilliant writing is for you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Issue 48.05 is now online, featuring:
Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Windsor
Susan Pedersen on Epstein
Nicholas Spice on Schubert
@shreir.bsky.social on Chantal Akerman
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war on Iran
and Joanna Biggs on Solvej Balle.
Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
Off topic, but this cheered me up
no end - @edwyncollins.bsky.social with a cat in Sefton Park. Perfection.
HAVE MET A VERY TALKATIVE SHEEP CALLED MURIEL. SPENDING MUCH OF MY TIME IN DEEP DISCUSSION ON MATTERS OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY.
Ha, she's actually an American on the run from Trumpland, but everyone from Tuscany has been very kind to me too (apart from one woman in Florence who shouted at me today in Santa Croce).
Characteristically detailed and humanising report on what's happening to people in Beirut on C4 News this eve. 'Displacement' tends to sound benign but it is brutal and devastating. Heart-breaking.
