Likewise! Further discussion in a Lambeth pub soon?

Also (and I admit it’s broadening the scope perhaps too far): assuming that Mandelson was waved through partially on the grounds he’s a Lord, might we also want to look at the appointment process for an honour that gets you a free pass in British society?

Deep blue V60 filter with white filter cone. Bubbles have risen to the surface of the brewing coffee in the shape of a heart.

When your morning coffee loves you back. #freshlyground #coffee #V60 #filter

Dacha-life in Pre-Revolutionary Russia The production of Summerfolk by Maxim Gorky (trans. Nina Raine, Moses Raine) currently playing at the National Theatre is a glorious thing. Bourgeois Russians on an extended stay in their...

Dacha-life in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

The production of Summerfolk by Maxim Gorky (trans. Nina Raine, Moses Raine) currently playing at the National Theatre is a glorious thing. Bourgeois Russians on an...

A Surfeit of Apocalypse What's the most apocalypse you can fit in one movie? Friday's screening of Akira in 4K at the BFI IMAX was a writhing mess of spiritual-psychological-flesh apocalypses inside a 'regular'...

A Surfeit of Apocalypse

What's the most apocalypse you can fit in one movie? Friday's screening of Akira in 4K at the BFI IMAX was a writhing mess of spiritual-psychological-flesh apocalypses inside a...

Kanada riding his red motorbike through an explosion in Akira (1988)

What's the most apocalypse you can fit in one movie? Friday's screening of #Akira in 4K at the BFI IMAX was a writhing mess of spiritual-psychological-flesh apocalypses inside a 'regular' nuclear one. When it was released in 1988 it was sci-fi, but in 2026 it hit like a current affairs documentary.

Hard Streets - Profile Books

Fascinating Q&A earlier this week with @jacriding.bsky.social about her new book "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London." I regret not sticking around to natter in the pub later!
profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

Hard Streets: working-class lives in Charlie Chaplin's London On Tuesday this week I attended a Q&A at NYU in London with Jacqueline Riding, historian and historical advisor to film and TV (including Mike Leigh's period dramas Peterloo and...

Hard Streets: working-class lives in Charlie Chaplin's London

On Tuesday this week I attended a Q&A at NYU in London with Jacqueline Riding, historian and historical advisor to film...

Mombi’s head in a cupboard with her “powder of life” prominent in composition.

Mombi’s little habit always amuses me. Such a Freudian movie on every level 😏

Just got hit with a pang of nostalgia for 2000, specifically when my Nokia 9210 predictive text would try to turn “Canterbury” into “Banteratsy”, whatever that is.

This is just delightful!

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

This is a great idea: kill some video game nazis tomorrow in your own Valentine’s Day (Fascist) Massacre

An ICE agent being taken down by Ice Cube, Ice T... etc

As requested by Gav Burgess

[Vanilla Ice was in the original request but was omitted because he is pro-Trump]

Leo DiCaprio wearing no-drop Altra shoes in One Battle After Another

Today I learned that I have the exact same pair of shoes that Leo DiCaprio wears through most of One Battle After Another. Can anyone tell me where to find the bathrobe?

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - "Wuthering Heights" YouTube video by rud1e

Whenever I see a poster for the Emerald Fennel Wuthering Heights, this plays in my head: youtu.be/FF0VaBxb27w

Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper

Phineas Harper calls out woeful British building standards in the Graun. It’s a systemic training / oversight issue with its roots in the class structure, of course.

Artificial teeth are a great option to have if your natural teeth fall out, but you wouldn't rip your teeth out to get them. The same is true for intelligence.

And the care and technique that goes into reasonably cheap everyday things like tonkatsu or a bowl of ramen is so lovely to behold. The pride in doing a thing well for its own sake seems to be the rule not the exception.

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

Playbill image for "Oh, Mary!": Mason Alexander Park is Mary Todd Lincoln in "Oh, Mary!" a new play by Cole Escola, entire production directed by Sam Pinkleton. On the right is an image of Park in the role of Mary Todd Lincoln.

"Oh, Mary!" is a bunch of vaudevillian fun. It's also about damage and acting out. Quite a few 'respectable' reviewers in the UK press have missed the point and need to read Genet: “To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.” #theatre #london #genet #ohmary #trafalgartheatre

White text on a red background "HIGHLY DIGESTIBLE PIZZA: The result is a pizza that's not only flavorsome but also highly digestible."

Restaurant website that is definitely not AI slop. #pizza chain in central #london

And everyone who mattered in the party acting like McSweeney was some kind of untouchable genius for masterminding a victory that was effectively the electorate saying “none of the above”

enclose.horse A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

Current web game obsession: enclose.horse

Egg sarnie + sparkling Yakult drink = sake hangover cure

Aw man, what does it say about me that I’ve been into them since I was 17? Happy to provide a few pointers 🤓

I’m still sad about Fez guy Fish. Although iirc he was thin-skinned rather than pro-authoritarian. Maybe nerdy guys with borderline funny four-letter names got bullied worse than everyone else?

Witness is brilliant, but it would benefit from a little… wit? As usual, I’ve been living under a rock so Blow’s politics are disappointing news to me.

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

PARIS - 3D TIMELAPSE - 300 BCE to 2025 YouTube video by CITY 3D TIMELAPSE

Time lapse of how Paris developed: youtu.be/IFhKB5zHWFg