Fantastic read by Harry on Machen here: “the scale of the ‘doorstep’ as painted in A London Adventure feels near impenetrable; the vastness and mystery of the teeming 1920’s metropolis a living entity that, by dent of its nature and scale, is unknowable in the round.”
And he’s still a dickhead.
Reform continue the willful misunderstanding of the power of symbolism in allyship. An underlying insistence that people should either look like their preferred view of Britishness, or to be quiet, underpins much of their actions.
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Duncan Jones
Derek Jarman on Hockney dying his hair. ‘It seems such a small gesture now but then it broke every convention of the ghastly fifties. The grey suits and black shoes ... the tight furled umbrellas of the middle classes ... a fucked up closet culture where queers were bashed in the tabloids.’
You have to appreciate the occasional deadpan take to camera in medieval frescoes
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Peter Beaumont
A wonderful innings, but very sad news.
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Why local journalism matters - officials raid Harry Potter “gift shops” after a London Centric investigation into tax evasion. Such a fantastic publication, what we’ve needed for years in the capital, I highly recommend signing up (last week they did a big piece on goat-sacrificing occultists)
I can still hear Douglas saying “Fwank” and chuckling when telling the stories about listening to music with his dad over a plate of offal and Thames Estuary samphire. Father & son autodidacts of the sort I fear we don’t find so much any more. Miss the rascal & his shouting & pointing 🖤
Snide wrongun David Sullivan has been done over, absolutely incredible. Behind the scenes this must have been proper Game Of Thrones stuff, can’t imagine he’s ever had something like this happen to him in his sordid career, just wonderful news IRONS ⚒️
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Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died
