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The RM Sotheby’s #London to #Brighton @VeteranCarRun is currently passing through #Tooting Broadway!

Full info and route map via www.veterancarrun.com

New Exhibitions in November A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

Among new exhibitions in London in November:
Turner & Constable at Tate Britain
Wright of Derby at the National Gallery
Caravaggio's Cupid at the Wallace Collection
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
These shows & more in our preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

Goodbye service charge, hello 'admin fee' Plus: The difficulty of sourcing live snails for a London restaurant and a tribute to one of London's leading American candy shops.

A mixed bag of news in your inbox!
*Why “admin charge” could replace “service charge” on your London restaurant bill
*The missing link between London snail farms and western government contracts awarded during the Iraq war
*RIP KINGDOM OF TREATS
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...

This is surely the end - 14th century, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 495, f. 28v

Sunday morning Bacon…’Marching Figures’ 1952.

It’s frothy man.

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

..sometimes a person just needs something pretty…

GLEN SEMPLE

BATHED IN SUNSHINE
Acrylic on linen board

Given what’s going on in America and across the globe I’m surprised that more reference hasn’t been made of this excellent series. It explains so much of the history as to why we find ourselves in the horrific state we are. It’s not an easy watch but definitely educational.
youtu.be/dQ4r3Qdrqmo?...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's incredible how quickly a man can make the journey from "Will of the People" to "Fuck these People".

Lords really are built different.

On Thursday, the mayor of the Serbian town of Indija - an ally of President Vučić - refused to open public buildings so the students could sleep the night.

So local volunteers gathered supplies and they slept on mattresses in the street for the night.

Some have marched over 180 miles to Novi Sad.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.

Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.

A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.

(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

La blouse rose 1919 (Musée Angladon)

Portrait of Lunia Czechowska 1919

Madame Amedee (Woman with Cigarette) 1918 (National Gallery of Art)

Boy in a Striped Sweater 1918

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920)

I do hope people in Iran can see this rather beautiful display…

The Iranian Government have banned Halloween and its displays …apparently it’s taken off there - particularly amongst the young. Not a belief system…just a bit of fun.

The population is not impressed…

Happy Halloween everyone.
#WorldBollardAssociation 👻

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

This is another example of entitlement

Ending the week on a positive note - for Brits on Reddit, in need of more positive news in your life, I recommend this sub: GoodNewsUK

(I have no skin in the game, it's just made my Reddit feed happier)
www.reddit.com/r/GoodNewsUK...

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

Trick or ruddy Treat.......

“Check out my beautiful demolition job Bibi!”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

The postbox on the corner of where Bonham meets Lambert Rd off Brixton Hill is like the National Gallery of crochet. @regretteruane.bsky.social

Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT

"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

Painting by Henry Kondracki ‘Casablanca at the Cameo’ 2023.
Oil on canvas. Size 102 x 122 cm.

Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds Almost 150,000 people aged 90 and over in England are forced to wait longer than 12 hours in A&E every year, with some experiencing “truly shocking” waits of several days stuck in corridors, a report warns. Older people are also being left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours, denied pain relief and forced to watch and hear other patients die next to them because they end up waiting so long for care, according to Age UK. Continue reading...

Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year