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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’

Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue.

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Trump: "They're walking around with no legs"

I'd love to know how they measured that.

Ha! For me, it's one of the worst in the West End, but the crowds of people inside clearly love it so it's certainly successful.

The Outernet, Charing Cross Road, London

A packet of John Player Superkings, 1980s design.

Exclusive: Heatherwick replaced on revamp of BT Tower Heatherwick Studio has been replaced by Orms on the high-profile project to convert London’s iconic Grade II-listed BT Tower into a hotel

Intriguing. Orms did the retrofit of Camden Town Hall into the Standard, which is great and everyone likes, and the Outernet, which looks like a packet of John Player Superkings.

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At the risk of sounding a bit "Who remembers Spangles?", this is a market. Street-food stalls are not a market.

SHOUTS & MURMURS I ASKED CHATGPT AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAID By Natalya Lobanova

THEN I ASKED IT IF I SHOULO JUMP OFF A CLIFF BECAUSE ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DOING IT, AND IT SAID... WHAT A GREAT BONDING OPPORTUNITY! YOU CLEARLY LOVE AND CARE ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DRAW UP A LIST OF NEARBY CLIFFS, RANKED BY DEADLINESS?

Natalya Lobanova

The Difeafes and Calualties this Week, Impofthume Infants Killed by a fall from the Bel- frey at Alhallows the Great- Kinglevil- Lethargy Palfie Plague- 7165 Rickets Rifing of the Lights IL Scowing Scurvy- Spleen- Spotted Feaver. TOE Stilborn- 17, Stone- Stopping of the fomach- 9. Strangury .- Suddenly Surfeit- 49 Teeth 12L Thruíh Timpany. Tiffck Vomiting: 5 Winde- Wormes IS Bortive A Aged. Ague. Apoplexic. Biceding; Barnt in his Bed by a Candle y at St. Giles Cripplegate Canker Childbed-Chrilomes- Confumption Convuilion Cough-Droplic- Feaver- Flor and Small-pox-Frighted Gow-Grief Griping in the Guts-Jaundies- 42 18 134 64 33 309 3 C Males Shrifined Females— 95 CIn all-- - 81 Plague-7165 -176 --8297) Increafed in the Burials this Week- 607 Parithes clear of the Plague- Parithes Infe&ted -126 Ibe Afise of Bread ferforth by Order of the Lord Malor and Court of Aldermen, A penny Wheaten Loaf to contain Nine Ounces and a half, and three half-penny White Loaves the like weighr. A weekly Bill of Mortality, 1665. In this particular week 7165 people died of plague, but some still died of grief, lethargy, falling off a belfry or just "suddenly. Note, at the foot, the controlled price of bread.

1665 - a week in London of causes of dearth. Plague very big that week. Significant number of Griping in the Guts.

A modernist oddity: an austere slate-monopitched, single-storey estate village, built by Richard Llewelyn-Davies & John Weeks for Baron Rothschild at Rushbrooke, Suffolk (1956-1960). More Cumbernauld than East Anglia, especially in the mist, but creating a tough sense of place with economy.

Trombone player

Trombone player https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-seurat/trombone-player-1887

The UAE's leaders are wandering around malls to encourage a return to normal life. A public service announcement delivered by a child actor explains that the "big booms" in the sky are "the sound of us being safe"

World capital of cognitive dissonance.

Must try EG and apricot next - sounds absurdly good.

Yes. Ordered because we left it too too late for hot cross bun. This ice cream is driving me to distraction.

We ordered chocolate and cinder toffee. Woke up in the night thinking about it.

On International Women's Day we would like to celebrate the remarkable Judy Egerton who first met Larkin in Belfast in the 1950s and kept up a friendship for the rest of his life, via letters and visits. Judy was an eminent curator and art historian at the Tate and the National Gallery.

The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr. Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.

All those fawning stories about Noma, its 'food innovation lab' and its 'social mission'.

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Poster for The Secret Agent.

LOVED The Secret Agent, especially the phone booths.

It may have been better without the resolve.

Yes, great one.

Really hard. The second guessing starts to drive you mad.

Oh yes, excellent one. And chucking Girlfriend in a Coma into the mix.

Oh, the greatest example.

My Ship is Coming In - the slurrings of a pub-drunk boyfriend.

Tony Blackburn is playing Ode to Billie Joe. More pop songs should have unreliable narrators.

Murder on the Dancefloor. The glossy, jaded emptiness of it. I'm sure it's a failing in me.

Cover design still looks like the future.

The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today?

In the 1980s, the sexologist Shere Hite was on TV a lot, uttering words seldom heard there before: “orgasm,” “masturbation,” “clitoris.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/B5rEs5

Imagine getting upset about women's bags.

Oh wld love to see.