Sorry John, I’ve only just logged on! I’ve got the book - was gonna give it to my daughter but it’s quite meaty/blokey - a masterpiece quand-même xk

Is there an exception to the rule that the more closely critics cleave to the evaluative/traffic-warden school of reviewing, the unlikelier they are to spark joy when they turn to novels and other *creative writing* projects?

Anti-modernist crusader

‘There was something about modern buildings that wasn’t quite decent.’

Keith Miller on King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture

Checked and found out that I, too, have been used to train AI, so if your quarterly report opens with a throat-clearing intro about limestone or 1970s science fiction you'll know who to thank

Here on the east coast of Sicily it’s a balmy 16º, and the Italians are all dressed as if for a (curiously elegant) polar expedition

With thanks to x.com/ameliahorgan

Tony Soprano and co are a good example - last syllable falls off and there's also Neapolitan vowel shift/consonant softening eg gabagool for capocollo, stugots for (que)sto cazzo etc

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Peter Higgins obituary Other lives: Humane urologist in Stoke-on-Trent committed to improving the experience of patients in the NHS

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I shot the serif

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