Ian Hunt

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

The other political parties will be green with envy….

Great insider take from the @greenparty.org.uk conference floor from @adamramsay.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

whitish flowers arranged in an umbel, seedhead behing is same arrnagement, pinkish, some fleshy leaves

Crithmum maritimum, Rock Samphire, in Apiaceae -- delighted to find this one still in flower. Most of the plants are at fruiting/seed stage. Lyme Regis. #WildflowerHour #Botany

Can't be at the GPEW conference -- wish I was. Here's Dylan Law . . .

Intensification - Emanuele Coccia - How to Hijack Cities After decades of habituation to the idea of automation, the experience of seeing things break, shatter, or disintegrate has become a tragedy or evidence of something diabolical.

‘the answer to the climate crisis is not to replace cities with rural landscapes, but to radically reimagine the city itself: to extend the logic of urban density to encompass the density and diversity of species.’
Yes, I’ve been calling it a House of Trees…
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Exploring Cuba Urban Gardens: A Sustainable Revolution - Urban Gardening Guru Cuba's urban gardens have undergone a remarkable shift towards sustainability, playing a vital role in reshaping the country's landscapes and ensuring food

I don't read much about Cuba but leaving aside everything else the urban agriculture movement there is a model to be looked at -- can't think of many European cities so committed to using laws positively to enhance change. urbangardeningguru.com/cuba-urban-g...

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity.

And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

while we are on Stein -- I have finally sent you an order for the edition of Tender Buttons you published and am telling the massed crowds of readers on bsky about it #books #modernism #GertrudeStein www.colinsackett.co.uk/tenderbutton...

Excellent essay on Gertrude Stein by Adam Thirlwell and the new biography by Francesca Wade. I only just started on Stein, finally, this year.

A corporate occupation: Trump's plan is no guarantee the Gaza hell will end By placing the enclave into the hands of a 'Board of Peace', Trump and Blair are intentionally trying to strip Gaza of its Palestinian identity

Rayhan Uddin at Middle East Eye.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/corpora...

I'm delighted that Parliament has finally created the powers for long term rent controls. I've made the case for well over a decade, and now we need to see it implemented quickly.

Mind wandering (talking to oneself) is a function here. I am increasingly thinking that Realism/Naturalism in late C19 is, like the very different direction of Symbolism, under a larger umbrella called 'The Religion of Art' -- an excessive belief in the power and even value of art.

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

useful, depressing field guide on normalisation of far right ideas, social reinforcement effects of repetition and the creation of 'illusory truths' www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Back to Leibl -- here is Der Zeitungsleser, 1891 and it's terrific. The distance from C19 figurative painting as anecdote is profound. The theme of absorption opens up, within a naturalist/realist programme, to some sense of patriarchy among these country people, as new generations grow up

Peter Thoene, by the way, was one of the names adopted by Oto Bihalji-Merin (Yugoslav art historian, 1904-1993, communist, Jewish). His use of aliases may have saved his life when he was captured as a PoW. His Pelican book came at a time when defending Expressionism was a dangerous thing.

Peter Thoene, writing in 1938 in Modern German Art (Pelican), gets Wilhelm Leibl wrong. There's an interest in peasant subjectivity and interiority in WL's work that is parallel to Thomas Hardy in England.

Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.

charcoal, I think. of a peasant concentrating on filling his pipe, seated, wearing a hat, windows lighten the overall effect. Drawing is loose, more detailed in the face and hands. 1890s.

Wilhelm Leibl is such an interesting artist, especially in the later works where realism is still a commitment but starts to open out. Remembering the first lockdown when I started assembling thoughts for a possible essay about him. Peasant filling his pipe, 1890s. #WilhelmLeibl #ArtHistory #Kunst

Whom do we really need protecting from? The UK’s treatment of Palestine Action contrasts starkly with tolerance of violent far-right movements

‘You can tell a lot about a society’s priorities by what it tries to protect itself from…. really I should say ‘a government’s priorities’.’

My piece in Solicitors Journal contrasting the treatment of Palestine Action and violent far-right movements.

www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wh...

I should add to this and say that we, Hypha Studios, have three galleries in the iconic 1 Poultry for a year, 24 exhibitions of which 8 are architecture adjacent in a gallery that will become *the* cultural place to be.
Find out more:
hyphastudios.com/hypha-galler...

I'm looking forward to sseing the show and the space -- I am a massive fan of Michelle Williams Gamaker

One week later, much less flying from the man, many ivy bees I noticed nesting in a front garden in Pattens Lane. Ivy flowers nearby are finishing flowering. Just a few carefully tending the entrances. #Rochester or #Chatham (on the border, where is that border?) #KentNature anyway #insects

I am supporting this fantastic group of folks S.L.A.E who are fighting against the government on the Luton airport expansion. Reeves went against environmental planning advice and pushed this through. They have been awarded a date for a judicial review in November. Please help share this 🙏 🧵

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

To the Charterhouse for Islington in Bloom awards -- a good event for one of the most nature-deprived boroughs in the country. I am there as '+1, with watering cans'. Ceiling of the Great Hall.

Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage):

1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party

2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories.

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high quality editorial control & good use of a high street copy shop = publishing!

yes it was published by Harry. On the back it says Form Books 1 so maybe it was the first he did . . . I am sorting books but keeping this one.

and while I am posting poems, here is another poem by Maurice Scully titled 'RAIN' from the same book . . . I am sorting through the many poetry books I gathered, especially 80s and 90s . . . #IrishWriters #rain

Poem titled 'RAIN' by Maurice Scully. From Certain Pages (form books, 1992) #rain