'A fascinating retrospective': Earl of Clancarty reviews 'Hurvin Anderson' The intensity of the work of the contemporary British artist Hurvin Anderson must be experienced first-hand to be fully appreciated

"The intensity of the work of the contemporary British artist Hurvin Anderson must be experienced first-hand to be fully appreciated"

🎨 @nicktrench.bsky.social reviews Hurvin Anderson's retrospective at Tate Britain | #TateBritain #HurvinAnderson
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Recipes for disaster: Boris Johnson iced by a cake Politicians making a meal of it. This week: when Boris Johnson was ambushed by a birthday cake

"The ironic icing is that the originator of 'cakeist' political philosophy was undone partly by the having, and then eating, of an actual cake"

🎂 @roberthutton.co.uk's Recipes for Disaster: Boris Johnson iced by a cake
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How A Secret Government Report Delayed Leeds' Long-Awaited Trams The long wait in Leeds for a tram network was recently extended yet again. Noah Vickers uncovers the real reasons for the latest delay

NEW: How A Secret Government Report Delayed Leeds' Long-Awaited Trams

My @thehousemag.bsky.social feature includes more detail from the confidential NISTA 'peer review':

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It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

'A rollicking read': Baroness Andrews reviews 'A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars' Alwyn Turner’s cultural and political history of the interwar years is full of gems

"Turner reveals a world of paradox catching the tides of two decades – grief and hedonism; license and repression; distress and wealth; conservatism and communism"

📚 Baroness Andrews reviews @alwynturner.bsky.social's 'A Shellshocked Nation' @profilebooks.bsky.social
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'Too many stunning pieces to describe': Baroness Young reviews 'Nigerian Modernism' Filled with exquisite works, this Tate Modern exhibition offers refreshingly well-rounded representations of African women and a vital lesson in Ni...

"This exhibition is an enticing glimpse of the relationship between art, culture and politics from a continent bursting with creative talent"

🎨 Baroness (Lola) Young of Hornsey reviews 'Nigerian Modernism' at the Tate Modern
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'Expertly told': Emma Foody reviews 'Margaret Bondfield' Nan Sloane has produced a fascinating biography of an extraordinary working-class woman

"Nan Sloane expertly shows how Bondfield’s politics were rooted in the precariousness of working-class life"
📚 @emmafoodymp.bsky.social reviews @nansloane.bsky.social's 'Margaret Bondfield: The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister' @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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🏆Seven Olivier Awards for 'Paddington: The Musical'

'Paddington: The Musical' review: Alf Dubs finally meets the bear from Peru I went to the theatre vaguely expecting a heartfelt tale of a lost bear, but what I found was something far more profound – and oddly personal

"There is a small part of me that will always be that person who arrived here by train knowing no one"

🎭 @alfdubs.bsky.social reviews 'Paddington: The Musical' 🐻🍊 at the Savoy Theatre, London #Paddington #PaddingtonTheMusical
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“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”

@newrepublic.com
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This is just one by-election result, but it's a fascinating one for Reform's "flagship" council (the by-election for Kent County Council was held after the Cliftonville Reform Cllr was jailed)

Results breakdown:

April 2026:
🟢Greens - 39%
💠Reform - 33%

May 2025:
🟢Greens- 12%
💠Reform-40%

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Franz Marc (1888-1916)
Horse and Dog, 1913. oil on canvas. #Cubism

'Doesn't make for easy viewing': Baroness Hayter reviews 'The Tasters' A tense and atmospheric tale of a group of German women forced to eat Hitler’s food to check for poison, don’t watch it late at night by yourself a...

"The tension holds throughout, with longing for missing husbands, food and normality, and with distrust and threat lurking in every scene"

🎬 Baroness (Dianne) Hayter reviews 'The Tasters', directed by Silvio Soldini
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Trump signature to appear on US bills in first for sitting president Treasurer’s signature to be removed for first time since 1861 in change made to mark US’s 250th anniversary Donald Trump’s signature will soon appear on US paper currency, the treasury department announced Thursday. The move marks the first time a sitting US president’s signature will appear on legal tender. To accommodate this change, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861. Continue reading...

Trump signature to appear on US bills in first for sitting president

'Thought-provoking': Lord Howell reviews 'Prophecy in Politics' A valiant attempt at understanding why accurate predictions so often fail to cut through

"A thought-provoking study of why accurate predictions so often fail to cut through"

📚 Lord (David) Howell reviews 'Prophecy in Politics: Or, the Wigram Aspect' by Kenneth Weisbrode | @hauspublishing.bsky.social
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'A read worthy of its subject': Sir David Natzler reviews 'Walter Bagehot: Life and legacy' Marking the bicentenary of his birth, the authors have delivered a balanced and lively examination of the life of the English journalist and consti...

"He stood for Parliament once, possibly to please his mother, but was defeated. Some of his opinions, such as on social Darwinism and on a racial hierarchy, are now simply noxious."

📚 Sir David Natzler reviews 'Walter Bagehot: Life and legacy' by Janet Seaton & Barry Winetrobe
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Well-aimed World Cup drama still misses: Liam Conlon reviews 'Saipan' This depiction of the dramatic fallout between the Republic of Ireland’s team captain and its manager during the 2002 World Cup makes for a decent ...

“As a portrayal of what happened in Saipan, it is a solid docufilm"

🎬 @liamconlon.bsky.social reviews 'Saipan' | #SaipanMovie ⚽
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Culture Clash – Lisa Nandy On Keeping Hope Alive Critics say Lisa Nandy should spend more time meeting stakeholders in her brief, but the Culture Secretary tells Francis Elliott she’s fighting for...

Lisa Nandy sits down with @franciselliott.bsky.social to discuss the BBC, AI in the arts, being "non-factional" to her "core", and how the government can communicate better

On Andy Burnham's bid to become an MP: "had I been sitting in that seat... yeah, I would have voted to allow him to stand"

'Frank and fearless': Baroness Gohir reviews Naz Shah's 'Honoured' Confronting some uncomfortable truths about abuse, honour culture and the justice system, Naz Shah's memoir is both painful and inspiring

"A fearless memoir of survival, 'Honoured' is both painful and inspiring"

📚 @muslimfeminist.bsky.social reviews @nazshahbfd.bsky.social's 'Honoured: Survival, Strength and My Path to Politics'
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'One of the most memorable films of the last year': Baroness Chakrabarti on 'Train Dreams' With its stunning locations and exquisite cinematography, this Oscar-nominated portrait of the life of an American itinerant labourer at the turn o...

"With its stunning locations and cinematography, this Oscar-nominated portrait of the life of an American itinerant labourer at the turn of the 20th century is also the story of the country itself"

🎬 Baroness Chakrabarti reviews 'Train Dreams' @netflixuk.bsky.social #traindreams
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'Samurai' at the British Museum: Iain Duncan Smith on his ancestors' pursuit of perfection From elaborate displays of armour to exquisite costumes and art, this spectacular exhibition enabled me to see the full extent of the mastery and e...

'From elaborate displays of armour to exquisite costumes and art, this spectacular exhibition enabled me to see the full extent of the mastery and enduring influence of my Japanese ancestors, the samurai'

@iainduncansmithmp.bsky.social reviews ‘Samurai’ at the British Museum #Samurai
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'Hugely emotional': the Earl of Clancarty reviews 'Tracey Emin: A Second Life' Full of contradictions and ambiguities, find the time to see this Tate Modern exhibition of the varied work of Margate’s most famous daughter

"Full of contradictions and ambiguities, find the time to see this Tate Modern exhibition of the varied work of Margate’s most famous daughter"

🎨 @nicktrench.bsky.social reviews 'Tracey Emin: A Second Life' | #TateModern #TraceyEmin
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"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

"If virus replicates in people with only partial protection, it can become resistant to medications. People living with virus may then pass resistant virus on to others."

#AMR - no one is safe until everyone is safe. US is here, as elsewhere, making us all less safe
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'London, Winter' (1928) by Christopher RW Nevinson

(London Museum)

a year is a long time in politics

'Gripping': Baroness Bryan reviews 'Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford' An engaging account of the life of the most adventurous of the six Mitford sisters, this may be a weighty tome but is well worth the effort

"Her closest friend in the US was probably Maya Angelou. The two would sing a duet of her favourite song, 'Right Said Fred'"

📚 Baroness Bryan reviews @cktroublemaker.bsky.social's 'Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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'Less Brontë, more Damien Hirst': Olivia Blake on movie-Marmite, “Wuthering Heights” It’s not one for the purists but – if you suspend your expectations – Emerald Fennell’s latest film is an indulgent treat

"Emerald Fennell’s ‘make believe’ lacks the scent of windswept heather but has its own strange, man-made shine. Shallow, yes; glossy, certainly. Is it worth a watch? Yes"

🍿 Yorkshire MP Olivia Blake reviews "Wuthering Heights" | #WutheringHeightsMovie #WutheringHeights
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Inside The Wes Streeting Operation At The Department Of Health Is Wes Streeting a details man? What do his days look like? Who does he delegate to? Sienna Rodgers and Zoe Crowther explore how the Health Secreta...

“He's political up to his eyeballs"

Is Wes Streeting a details man? What do his days look like? Who does he delegate to?

@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @zoecrowther.bsky.social explore how the Health Secretary runs his department