Conwy Castle Edgelands, north Wales, photo by Susan Blagden.
Data centre rising beside the Thames at Silvertown
Every now and then, while rifling through a drawer, I find a piece of national flotsam.
I'm sitting in the garden before going to help my friend Peggy by singing "Panis angelicus" while she struggles with a mini-organ.
Brian Groom
That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”
The familiar, fascinating Trumpian scheme: 1. Yell at status quo 2. Assault status quo incoherently 3. Terrify world 4. Retreat to situation worse than old status quo 5. Declare victory, move on to next topic. Somehow this cements his support base? www.ft.com/content/088c...
My favourite New Yorker cover by Saul Steinberg, from March 20, 1965
Murky Depths
Postcard From The Past
Today starts Refugee Week UK, and I thought I’d share my first hand embroidered artwork in a series about immigration. This is ‘Citizenship Requirements’, the 1st page of the UK citizenship app in thread & fabric, emphasising the explicit & implicit demands of being a ‘good’, ‘grateful’ immigrant.
I told @jondennis.bsky.social about a doctor who was banned from practising for claiming her own range of vitamins ‘rendered vaccines irrelevant’, and he said: ‘Oh, a QUACKTIVIST’.
Matt Steinglass
Sherrilyn Ifill
Helen Barrett
Helen Barrett
Dean Frey
Trump: "Re-gilding of the massive Arts of War sculptures, located between The Lincoln Memorial and site of The Triumphal Arch, rapidly continues. The sculptures will be fully regilded by July 3. The photos were taken yesterday. The Gilders’ Studio has flown in Gilders from around the Country!"
