Geraint Franklin

Tales of the Suburbs by John Grindrod review – an entertaining alternative history of queer Britain From London’s commuter belt to the country village gay club, these portraits of LGBTQ+ life are filled with humour, compassion and observational flair

Tales of the Suburbs is Book of the Day in the Guardian! ‘This fantastically entertaining alternative history of queer life in Britain’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Art of Persia - Series 1: Episode 3 Samira Ahmed goes back to when Persia faced her gravest threat, Genghis Khan, and reveals how the Safavids, who succeeded the Mongols, give Iran a powerful new identity.

UNESCO-listed Golestan Palace damaged by US/Israeli bombing. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/u... A historic building and archive of priceless objects like the Timurid era Shahnameh that we visited in Art of Persia (from 28 min 24s). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Thank you John. And congrats on yours!

Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.

New podcast: Lutah Maria Riggs, designer of the American Riviera podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

This was a fun one! The lady architect whose houses sell for $18M in Santa Barbara and Montecito

The institutional buildings of 1960s Canada were extraordinarily well-built. Throwing them away would be madness.

The 1969 Science Centre is an incredible piece of architecture. It needs some work.

The new building complex is a kludge that will be inferior by any measure.

Palantir currently runs the tech that links our health data across the NHS

www.bmj.com/content/386/...

An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.

The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

(📸 Middle East Observer)

Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.

Plan and section of the State of Illinois building (Thompson Center) in Chicago. The drawing is done in colored pencil, sepia ink, and oil pastels on tracing paper.

New online database for the permanent collection of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

For example: a presentation drawing for Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center.

sammlungen.dam-online.de

Sums it up.

Shoutout to my amazing colleagues at Cambridge & Birmingham on the 'Small Performances' project into John Baskerville's typographic punches - today is released a @camdiglib.bsky.social collection of imagery of the punches. Check it out! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month.

Tickets are available here:
www.diff.ie/programme/an...

Poster stamp to mark the International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1930

Poster stamp marking the 14th International Drama Week, Korbach, 1962

A friend has just introduced me to the Modernist German craze for Reklamemarken -- aka poster stamps -- little adverts to seal envelopes, ephemera now pretty much forgotten.

With the leaves fallen, the difference is less striking, but I took the left-hand image in February 2022, and the other yesterday.

Not one of these trees was planted. All I did was prevent sheep and other grazers from getting at them, and the forest came by itself.

GREEN VS REFORM VOTE GREEN! Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Today is the day.

Hope vs hate.

Green vs Reform.

Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Who's the younger chap with JB?

These portraits are beautiful - of their moment yet speaking in such powerful ways to our times.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Embodied Carbon Evidence Report - The Happold Foundation New evidence report highlights industry readiness for national embodied carbon policy The Happold Foundation is proud to support the recent publication of the Embodied Carbon Summit: Evidence Report, ...

In November we (Happold Foundation) funded a summit on embodied carbon in buildings in the UK, and how we can cut it, working in collaboration with @istructe.bsky.social, RICS, RIBA, @ukgbc.bsky.social, and Useful Simple Trust. The summit report has now been published.

"I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script, I whip it out immediately." Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams: born 100 years ago today.

album cover for the planets by Holst a man and a woman in fantasy sci-fi outfits.

This is exactly what I imagine when I hear Holsts's Planets...

Written Statement: The Deposit Return Scheme for Drinks Containers (Wales) Regulations 2026 | GOV.WALES Huw Irranca-Davies, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

The UK bottle return scheme (DRS) will include glass after all.

But only in Wales, not the rest of the country.

Notable because glass industry had heavily, and successfully, lobbied for it to be excluded from the scheme.

www.gov.wales/written-stat...

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

The Arthur Scargill Archive Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.

The Arthur Scargill Archive. An essential resource for the study of the British labour movement. A collection of national significance including correspondence, subject files, transcripts of speeches, photographs & audio/visual material: sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

Hope must beat hate. That's why we're doing our absolute best to make sure Hannah Spencer beats Reform's Matt Goodwin and becomes our 5th Green MP this Thursday! Still time to do your bit and head up to Gorton and Denton for the final campaign stretch. I will see you on polling day!

Hope you enjoy it!

It is one of two Swindon buildings in there! Thanks dr-gee!