Peter Rees

Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25? | YouGov Scepticism towards transgender rights has grown across the board since 2022

Arguably Democrats have ceded the popular position on trans rights to the GOP. yougov.co.uk/politics/art.... UK poll but I doubt it's much different in the US.

Where does that leave boxing?

"Finally"?

Sage advice

The 'entertainments' are so, well, entertaining. My favourite is Our Man in Havana (very funny), followed by the eerie Ministry of Fear.

The Last Judgement window contains my absolute favourite set of little devils.

Curious - why don't you use Word for that?

"Here's an opinion I hold today. Never forget it!"

A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites
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Hargreaves:

Mr Tickle
Mr Lazy
Mr Greedy
Mr Messy...

I could go on.

While sounding simultaneously bored and cross

Thames Water to do fewer improvement projects under lenders’ new rescue plan New consortium says infrastructure projects must be cut back to make beleaguered company viable again

Thames Water to do fewer improvements under lenders' rescue plan.

More unplugged leaks, sewage in rivers.

Plan wants more cash from customers. No commitment on what shareholders will pay. No end to dividends.

Nationalisation is the only durable solution.

Someone tells you something's a good idea. They might even demonstrate it. It seems to make sense. Or does it? This question - that's critical thinking. When we don't just believe things, but start thinking ourselves. If needs be, research. Test it. And make up our own minds.
#GoodMorning, everyone.

Overwhelmingly male and stale, unsurprisingly.

Who are these "enemies of success" that he's blaming? Boxing worships success above all things.

Only a man could think that the definition of 'woman' is of no importance to actual people.

But ... but it's pure leftism to talk about the material basis of oppression. Which, for women, is sex.

Insane analogy.

Defunding the BBC would do incalculable damage to music in the UK, especially classical music, of which, among other things, it is the most important source of new commissions.

Have you tried to cancel a NYT subscription?

Pretty sure he's mixed race, but carry on

Cezanne's studio

Cezanne's studio

Cezanne's studio

Cezanne's last studio, Aix-en-Provence. It still contains many of the objects he depicted in his extraordinary late run of still lifes.

This shouldn't make me laugh as much as it does

Underrated

Poster with the date 1945 up at the top. Illustrated with a Soviet soldier with a big red star in the front of his helmet. he's got a Tommy Gun hanging around his chest but he's got a big cape flowing from his shoulders and he's holding a long Lance in his right hand he's writing a white horse and he's stabbing a black swastika-shaped snake/dragon

USSR, c. 1965

Playmobil Robin Hood set showing the outlaws on the lash.

I see your Prussian alcoholic and raise you a band of a bladdered outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Friar Tuck provides the religious quotient.

On Alcaraz: "He's the Matrix."

You know HP Lovecraft was a virulent racist, right?

A list of Labour-leaning participants in Dining Across the Divide who have all switched to Green

What's going on with Labour voters in the Guardian's Dining Across the Divide?