Another great day for people demanding a significant investment in London’s public transport without apparently realising that that’s what they’re doing. #DriverlessTrains

30+ years since I studied French at school but I think I still get the gist.

Avenida libertador al viento de trompeta, 2022 by Silvana Trevale

Hope, love and trumpets: young Venezuelans – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A man with a slightly eccentric platform of “I am a commuting cyclist who is against all forms of improvements to cycling in London”.

Instagram ad for a Miles Davis centennial t-shirt where the type for ‘100’ looks like it says ‘loo’, with hilarious consequences!

‘Miles at loo’

I might go to the local hustings this evening just to see if ‘Rupert Fiennes’ is a real person, or a name out of the Tory Paper Candidate Generator.

It’s so bad. Like, if it can’t answer a query as basic as “what is on at the O2 Arena tonight?” reliably, why would I trust it to do anything vaguely difficult?

Herewith a hastily-sequenced playlist of ROTUNDA MUSIC:

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‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park th...

Struggling to reconcile the Guardian’s ‘Age of extinction’ banner with the news of ‘soaring’ rhino numbers, but whatevs. Rhinos in the street!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yess! What an album.

Rotunda Hunt 2026

I’ve lived round here for 23 years and never seen this rotunda. I should address that. #rotunda

Accidentally cursed my IG feed by clicking on an ad for ‘Sushi, Sake and Sumo’ in Greenwich Borough Hall (tickets from £79!) and now I’ve just been served one for ‘Rodeo in Lewisham’. What’s next, ‘Monster Trucks in Woolwich’?

It looks sufficiently #niche

Pleased to have secured a copy of this in the post-RSD online sale from SotU. Thought they might all go over the weekend.

Clouds behind the City skyline at dusk.

The City of London, looking east from Waterloo bridge.

An advert for Cliff Richard and Helen Hobson: Glove personalities of the year 1997.

I have enjoyed two pints of Monday night cask ale with good company in one of MidTown’s more eccentric pubs. #VisitLondon

Someone called “Al Warburton” is telling me that “Grimes” has been “artwashing” on “LinkedIn”. I’m not comprehending.

Guardian screenshot Grimes joining LinkedIn is artwashing at its most brazen. I should know - I released my new film on there Al Warburton 6h ago This is what we're up against

Posting screenshots of trivial-sounding Guardian articles with their “This is what we’re up against” pop-up is a cheap and easy trick, and one I will continue to do for the foreseeable.

Bob Mortimer as ‘Graham Lister’ looking at a clipboard.

I need to procure four clipboards before Wednesday.

‘BrokenBiros: the static caravan park travels’ is an unexpected spin-off series but We Are Here For It.

He is from the grand tradition of ITV presenters who illicit a nationwide “oh, FFS” when he opens up his commentary on an England match.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO WHINLATTER

Are you trapped in the attic?

As it should.

Every now and then I remember I can take the boat into town.

A woman wearing headphones, illuminated by light through stained glass windows.

London - April 2026

Sign board for The Weight of Being exhibition

This, at Two Temple Place, is excellent. Important qualifier on this recommendation, however: the show closes permanently today.

🚸 Robert Munoz worked as a press photographer in the 1970s and 80s. But some of his favourite images came between assignments, walking the streets. The Child in the City brings together photos of children moving through everyday life, from Paris to Mariupol.

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I have just said to her “can you see why we gave them up now?” while wrestling with the CD burner.