An old amigo defending National intellectual culture versus a Reform UK bod:
“when asked what it is that he wants he said “I just want my country back “
I pointed out that it was still here and he was stood on a street in mutley…some one must have brought it back overnight without telling him..” 😂💪
Channeling George Graham all the way today … ❤️🤍⚽️ 🤞💪
Jisc warning on escalation of cyber-attacks on universities:
'We are alerting members to a persistent and highly sophisticated phishing campaign currently targeting education and research institutions across the UK and internationally.'
Once upon a time, in a land far away …
📢 NEW: #Orbán is out! What does this mean for his far-right, ultra-conservative, anti-immigration, anti-trans + anti-everything cronies? I spoke to some pros on this for
@thenerve.news + looked back at the Orbán-funded, #Reform linked UK network I uncovered for @goodlawproject.org 👀
Screenshot from BBC News announcing a planned film of The Odyssey.
A film based on ‘The Odyssey’?!!!!
Very exciting, but at the same time could be dreadful. The greats of art and culture are often vulnerable.
I’m still glad I walked out of the musical ‘Les Miserables’ at the theatre and went to the Coach and Horses instead!
Screenshot advertising a cinema screening of the film ‘Amélie’ for its 25th anniversary
‘Amélie’! 25 years!!! One of my very favourite films. The actors, the setting, the music - oh my - the Yann Tiersen music!!
The film has *all* the feels for me and has helped me through a good few times. 🖤
Publicly own billionaires. Nothing less will do.
New substack: income inequality has fallen slightly, but inequalities of power are a big problem: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/one-cheer-...
Late medieval illustration of astronomers viewing the Earth as a globe-sized sphere floating in space, the Sun illuminating one side while the other faces the starry night sky. The whole planet is covered with tiny houses, complete with shadows creating the illusion of three-dimensional form.
Searching for images to illustrate an upcoming Secret Project, I came across this amazing semi-allegorical depiction of the Earth from the late 15th century. I love how modern it seems — a globe floating in space, complete with 3D-rendered buildings. [from BNF, MS Fr. 134]
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There is nothing newsworthy about putting people seeking asylum at risk. There is nothing in the public interest about misleading the public as to the scale of people seeking asylum based on being LGBTQIA+. There is nothing in the public interest about ignoring the barriers they face to safety. 8/
"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
We don't know how much Reform-run KCC sold this off for, but they flogged off about 100 works of council-owned art in March for just £32,000.
Once they're gone from public hands, they're gone. £32,000 would barely cover an admin assistant for a year (when you inc. pension & emp taxes).
A characteristic of their flex and for attitudes they stoke and exploit is a contempt and derision for art and creativity. I suspect they think there are votes in further denigrating arts and associating it with ‘woke’, Greens, DFL’s and refugee-loving lefties.
Kent County Council sells Anthony Gormley artwork that has adorned the entrance to a flagship library. Heritage & Culture sure is safe with Reform UK (and they just spent more on parking spaces for themselves than they have on the trumpeted Sittingbourne Library upgrade) www.newsbeep.com/uk/529201/
‘I can’t imagine why a Christian wouldn’t support Palestine Action. If I was younger, then I would probably be smashing up the weapons myself, but at 84 I can still do my small bit by being arrested, going to court and potentially going to prison.’
Sure, Trump attacking the pope and sharing ludicrous memes of himself as Jesus is attracting all the attention over how Christianity responds to war and suffering, but then there are those who treat these issues seriously www.thetablet.co.uk/news/anglica...
My forthcoming book has a page! No cover yet, but a page! It's really happening!
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Celebratory dance in Hungary
Sending best hopes and wishes to Hungarians today. 🫶
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
Poor us, eh?! 🙄
Collage of Guernsey lily (Nerine sarniensis): left, handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (Stephen Couchman, London, 1795); top right, A Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (1760s); bottom right, pink Nerines flowering beside a brick wall.
An old legend tells that a Dutch ship carrying bulbs was wrecked off Cobo Bay, Guernsey. Washed ashore, they took root and flourished, becoming known as the Guernsey Lily. Their botanical name Nerine sarniensis recalls Sarnia, the Roman name for the island. #FolkloreSunday
Cafe bar on a street corner in Fécamp, Normandy, with an eye-catching sign in a kind of retro style fat and bold font.
Cafe bar on a street corner in Fécamp, Normandy, with an eye-catching sign in a kind of retro style fat and bold font.
Tout Va Bien. The typographical excellence and reassuring life philosophy are most soothing!
#typography #adesignforlife
Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed
the devil just blinked
But will hay stop your daughter flinging your credit card about and down the gap between the bare floorboards?
