A screencrab from Amazon advertising the prices of a book - £27.99 in peperback compared to £400 in hardcover.

Ah, academic publishing, you've gotta love it. I bet those hardcover editions are selling well.

'Error: An interveiw with Fritz Lang was erroneously announced for this issue. This month the director interviewed in G. W. Pabst.'

My sort of of erratum announcement, from Close-Up film magazine, December 1927. Not a bad alternative!

My cat Billy asleep on a couch, with the shadow cast by a blind.

Afternoon sun.

Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about

Great news. Also crazy that it took this long to re-release the film, given what other films and studios got away with!

Different times!
'In der Glanzzeit des Vereins in den 1920er Jahren errang der FC Wacker 1922 den Titel des süddeutschen Fußballmeisters und stand zweimal im Halbfinale um die deutsche Meisterschaft.'

An newspaper excerpt showing the predicted teaams for Germany vs Holland, in mirror formation, with the players' names in the lower half upside down.

Not too surprsing that this way of reporting on football team formations, requiring the reader to turn the newspaper upside down, didn't catch on! From a report on Germany vs Netherlands, Vossische Zeitung, 1926.

254 killed by Israel in Lebanon today, and Trump calls it a ‘skirmish’.

Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south – in pictures The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws

Incredible work.

Ming the Merciless in FLASH GORDON

But he also seems to be mimicking pop-culture / Hollywood tyrants, still treating the war as a game. And like a child he’s incapable of thinking about consequences.

It's sound poetry. I love how plays with leave/believe. He definitely wasn't just confusing two very simple words, oh no.

In case you missed the rocket launch earlier, this is basically how it went. Pretty sure also that the crew were wearing NASA-approved space cardigans.

From Fritz Lang's technically impressive FRAU IM MOND / WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929).

Born #onthisday in 1746, the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya. See his wonderful series of etchings depicting “the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-whims-179... #otd

Who'd have thought the appointment as defense secretary of a man with prominent arm tattoos of the crusader motto 'deus vult' next to a large crucifix could lead to this. 🤔

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵
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Laurel and Hardy standing on top of an unfinished skyscraper in Liberty (1929).

Laurel and Hardy in their silent LIBERTY (1929), which is in part a tribute to the fearless crews who built America's skyscrapers. Very funny and also genuinely terrifying!

A grey striped cat stretching out her paws, which are white.

Suki demands that you admire her paws. #cats #catsofbluesky

Remembering the terrific Peter Lorre who died on this day in 1964 💖

Work from home and slow down on the road: world’s energy watchdog advises emergency measures as oil prices rise IEA makes 10 recommendations to help households and businesses prepare for a drawn-out disruption to energy markets

These are all great ideas and probably also political suicide in the UK context. If the government reduces speed limits and restricts car access to cities, I bet it won't be Trump who gets blamed, at least by the right-wing press.

Nigel Farage Cameo videos backed cryptocurrencies that collapsed in value Cameo videos produced by the Reform UK leader were used to drum up interest in obscure memecoins

Farage is LITERALLY a con man, who’d have thought.

I'm looking forward to this! There's no-one better qualified than Ruth to discuss Dada.

He added: “The interpreter is – I talk about it all the time – interpreters are really important. When you don’t speak the language and they don’t speak the language, it’s, you’re, people have no idea. People have no idea how valuable – and I’m on them all the time – people have no idea how valuable a good interpreter is. But over the last year, the world has witnessed the supreme power of the United States. We’re the most powerful military country in the world.”

Profound insights into language skills from linguistic maestro Trump here 🙄 Pity the interpreters who have to work with him - can you imagine?

A grey cat perched on a tall fence post in a sunny garden.

I often tend to ‘sit on the fence’, but definitely not with same style as Suki. #caturday

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

Every word of this is correct.

Telegraph sold for £575m as German buyer elbows out Daily Mail Axel Springer, owner of Bild and Die Welt, agrees all-cash deal for one of UK’s oldest newspapers

Looking forward to seeing Axel Springer enforce the journalistic standards of Bild Zeitung at the Telegraph, thereby considerably improving it ;)

Season 1 going well.

I see that Trump and Hegseth's illegal war is called 'Operation Epic Fury'. Of course it is. Have they posted an AI slop poster for it in the style of a Stallone film yet? The macho puerility is both laughable and terrifying.

Starmer faces greater quandary over ‘special relationship’ after Iran attack PM is in diplomatically precarious position of declining to endorse US strikes while also refusing to condemn them

If Starmer, the lawyer who once marched against the illegal war on Iraq, believes Trump's attack on Iran is also illegal, then he should have the courage and decency to say so. The 'special' relationship, if it ever existed, is already history.

The Great Olympic lie: untold story of Winter Games’ huge environmental impact Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track – IOC’s claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed

If you’ve enjoyed watching any of the Olympics, especially any event taking place on ‘snow’ - read this. My view - if the natural conditions for winter sports no longer exist, then those sports should no longer exist.

I can’t unsee it now 🤦‍♂️

A newspaper supplement with a photo Claudia Winkleman - she’s wearing black and has her hands crossed in front of her.

A Käthe Kollwitz print (The Widow I, 1923). A female wearing black with her hands in front of her.

This photo of Claudia Winkleman, slightly incongruously, is making me think of Käthe Kollwitz‘s woodcuts of widows. I think it’s the odd hand positioning.