If you jump up and down in the carriages, an automatic booming voice annoucement tells you off.

Private school pupils banned from conservatoire course The Royal Academy of Music’s ‘widening participation’ programme has stirred up discord with its application requirements

a crazy framing in the times here

this is a wider access foundation year for talented kids who didn't have the opportunities as their privately educated peers, and who have been let down by the systemic downgrading of music education for state schools...

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Brutal Economy Fulfills Mom’s Dream Of Having All Her Kids Back Home DULUTH, MN—Overjoyed to have a full house for the first time since everyone went off to college, local mother Leslie Daniels confirmed Thursday it was a dream come true to have all her children back h...

theonion.com/brutal-econo...

Famous people got VERY UPSET when TTH re-tweeted them, which was always a delight.

I've just been reminded of 'Tweeting Too Hard', the account from the old place that re-tweeted humble brags. Someone should bring it back here. They could call it 'Bleating Too Hard'.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

The full Roxy line-up from the period of Virginia Plain’s release. Uncharacteristically, everyone is smiling, except Eno, who looks a little thoughtful as if he’s about to speak. Ferry positively glows with happiness. All are in their familiar period get-ups, brightly lit on a roof-top. The top floors and roofs of the buildings behind them are black with pollution.

Roxy Music, London, Sept 18th 1972, by Brian Cooke. So glam, such fun.

Ned Flanders had it right: "Four hours early - just how I like it."

We don't remove people to Eritrea because they would be treated as deserters and face torture, hard labour and death. I'm not sure where you would start with Sudanese arrivals. They make it sound so easy.

Holes made in 1643 by musket balls can be seen on both sides of the door, together with a loophole (now filled in) between and above the two handles. My photo.

The doorway to the Church of St. Lawrence in Alton, Hampshire, still peppered with musket-ball holes from the Battle of Alton, 13 December 1643. To the right, above and between the handles, is a loophole to allow firing out by the Royalist troops inside the Church.

Monstrosities Mon Amour: Nottingham's Victoria Centre, with Lucy Brouwer #16. John Grindrod meets Nottingham historian and tour guide Lucy Brouwer to discuss a dinosaur of 70s mega-shopping and the Radiohead single time forgot

In case you missed it, I’m excited to say I’m on the latest Monstrosities Mon Amour : open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

If only there had been a photographer at the party.

WE HAVE SOME FRENCH GIRLS NEXT DOOR AND I TOLD THEM MY NAME IS DAVE BIG DICK WHICH MAKES US LAUGH WHEN THEY CALL ME IT.

I’ve literally not heard any of these tracks before. Another Soul Jazz Records triumph. Fingers crossed for a British volume. #nowplaying #rsd2026

Concrete Atlantis present: Sumer is icumen in a Roundabout Way — The Horse Hospital Dark-edged spoken word, lively talk about concrete buildings and live music for dancing to architecture. With performance from Mira Aroyo (aka Ladytron ), live discussion with John Grindrod and ...

www.thehorsehospital.com/events/concr...

I miss it - the soundtrack to summer 25.

I just overheard someone say 'footloose and pantsy free'.

This - I think - is Great Charlotte St.

NEMS Records, Liverpool, 1962-ish

Happy Record 'Store' Day.

Heaven.

war. Following that logic, London is not a liberal city. It is liberalism. The place itself - with its non-linear streets, its architectural farrago, its chalk-and-cheese neighbourhoods - is what happens when lots of individual choices accrue over centuries. It could not have come from a top-down designer with a single totalising idea. You can see how the place might rankle with the schematically minded. The result is, and always has been, a city with all the right enemies.

Janan Ganesh on London:

It is confusing, I think. The naming could be better.

Yes. It's a different museum. There are no labels at V&A Storehouse. This is V&A East, a different - and new - venue. Both are in the Olympic Park.

Newspaper background with a bold headline stating ‘93 organisations reject misleading narratives on “false allegations” and defend life-saving support for migrant victim-survivors’

BBC’s claims on MVDAC-DVILR misuse do not reflect frontline reality.

Misuse is the exception, not the norm.

With 92 organisations, we reject this framing and call for evidence-led debate rooted in lived experience.

Read the full statement: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/false-d...

Mamdani Says He Plans to Skip the Met Gala In an interview with the local news outfit Hell Gate, the New York mayor framed his decision to avoid the glamorous fund-raiser as a way to keep his focus on affordability.

Very cool.

Recent BBC articles highlight misconduct by a small number of unscrupulous advisers who charge thousands to fabricate asylum claims. This is fraud & must be stopped. But the coverage is selective, harmful & risks obscuring the wider reality of access to legal advice. 🧵

Aha

A Music Critic’s Soho Loft With Floor-to-Ceiling CDs John Rockwell’s penthouse is a temple to physical media in the heart of the Cast Iron district.

How do people stay so neat?

www.curbed.com/article/soho...

Really enjoyed that, thank you. Especially 'Throwing away a portrait feels like murder.'

The term “Department of War” should only be used with scare quotes and considerable derision.