Sam Campbell makes me laugh A LOT.

Quite a long conversation with partner’s mum about Susie Dent who, she informed us, is losing her sight. Later we discover she thought we were talking about Judi Dench

Hello there. I've started a Patreon (ages ago actually but life got in the way) anyway here's the first post. It celebrates 40 Years of NOW Christmas.

Just caught a bit of Larry Grayson’s Generation Game and it was an absolute riot of beige and tinsel

Happy winter solstice ☀️ 🌙

#Booksky: books on the history of bookstores & bookselling pls! Focus is on Ctl & Eastern Europe 1800-1939 but curious about all/any. I've got Brophy's Print Markets & Political Dissent. Not looking for books on libraries, publishing, magazines. Just bookstores & bookselling, inc distro.

Onion writer still relying on 90s gay jokes

Enjoy the Solstice, the dark and the light

This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. Friends, the Dark is rising.

An essay I wrote about the idea of building motorways in London. It is - I am not joking - nuanced. That’s my brand. I hope www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...

Got my brother an Xmas Morrison’s food delivery. Email, items not in stock: turkey. Good, good.

Christmas a bit overdone at this cafe table

Miss Lewis took her group on the pier. I am in her group. She bought us a cup of tea each. Michelle Wyatt lost 75p.

I wrote about Dickens, decorations and what they mean now. open.substack.com/pub/helenbar...

In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, something wonderful.

What happens now?

Shameless note to say that it's not too late to pick up a copy of #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems as a Christmas gift - 100% fully Santa-approved and recommended. 💯✔️🎅 (I reckon the words are pretty good, but the gorgeous illustrations and that stunning dust jacket would make it a treat to unwrap...)

For the full childhood Christmas experience today I’ll be trudging about in New Addington in the rain

My new book, The Radburn Idea 2: A Peterborough Effect, is now on sale! 76pp, with 32 photographs/illustrations. £12 incl postage. theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Latest rail announcement: ‘Did you notice any behaviour that didn’t seem quite right?’ Lamb, that’s just how some of us are.

If you love A Christmas Carol then get an earful of the amazing Helen Zaltzman reading the whole damn thing in this festive episode of her show The Allusionist, which may finally topple her one on Winterval as my festive favourite episode www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

Postcards from 1920s and 1930s Seven Dials 1 Before there was Monmouth Coffee, there was Jim and Emily Kitten’s café in Great White Lion Street. #London #SevenDials #CoventGarden #History #20s30s

My podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, shares the love my guests have for places other people hate. The most recent episode features Rosamund Lily West on the joys of the Blackwall Tunnel podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Game of Wool has done so well at encapsulating the miserable sweatshop spirit of the garment industry

Off to see Muppets Christmas Carol with the nieces today, as is traditional

The cathedral tonight looking a bit unreal, more like a model than an actual building. Love that navy blue sky.

Babe, come over, I’ve slithered inside a He-Man duvet cover and I’ve torn a hole in it and I’m performing Not I in its entirety for my cats. They don’t like it babe, no one does, but come over

Not been to see a tribute band before. Saw a Bee Gees one tonight, and what a fitting tribute it was to Martin Parr

In a really bad mood so this new Instagram account hit the spot: @weeping1930shouses

Ahhhhhhhh thank you thank you to Ollie @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for choosing BAD LANGUAGE as one of your books of the year 🥰 and alongside the equally witchy WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken. www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/christmas-20...

My main job these days is trying to get the pharmacy to give me the correct insulin

Posted this the other day top right is Coventry bsky.app/profile/garg...

Today’s Seifert

Off to Manchester today to see some lovely Modernist mates and to talk suburbia

Once again I can’t apologise enough

Not seen University Challenge for years. The guy screaming the contestants’ names sounds like Beaker

Men - what’s stopping you from dressing like this? And don’t say ‘ridicule on public transport’…

Loved Martin Parr. Boring Postcards made me so happy. Here’s to spotting the glory of boring

Behold the people of Redditch New Town!

Christmas season officially begins in my house when the Pet Shop Boys are up on the tree

The traditional December daffs.

Gift guide, innit x johngrindrod.substack.com/p/a-thorough...

Still looking for #Christmas gifts? Have a look at my prints, homewares and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk

I still tend to think that this is more sculpture than architecture, but seen in person this is nonetheless a wonder. RIP Frank Gehry

I have a new author photo! (c) the brilliant Katie Belcher.

You can now listen to Monstrosities Mon Amour on Spotify! open.spotify.com/show/5N6NEjV...

One of those Running/Planning nights open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

Perfume ads are the kind of reality AI thinks we live in

There's a whole chunk that didn't make it into BAD LANGUAGE about reading as something that I was encouraged to do as compliant behaviour & the blurry, gendered, classed line where it became dangerous, excessive, radical & non-compliant behaviour. The latter is what keeps me reading.