We are all enjoying ourselves & don't want it to end.

And here's Toni Basil covering Devo's Be Stiff (THREAD) youtu.be/jwzxHTD-n-M

The group campaigning to prevent the demolition of the old Museum of London building has been given permission to challenge the decision in the High Court. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cam...

New-old Kate Bush. www.katebush.com/best-of-the-...

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Will nobody think of the entitled middle?

Studio Voltaire was running Dennis Potter's last interview on a loop in a tiny empty gallery this afternoon. I hadn't watched it all since it was broadcast in 94 and oh god, he could see it all coming: tech lords, societal fracture, the arts crisis, the diminished BBC.

Well, I loved this and its prosthetic penises.

British photographer Chris Routledge The Futurist Cinema, Liverpool #Photography

I wrote about Britain’s political autumn www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Idea for a radio play (in the style of @davehaslam.bsky.social): Dr Beeching accepts the job and takes a chainsaw to Apple's largesse.

The dreaded empty nest. On the upside, we finally get to find out who pilfers all the chargers.

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

If you fancy some urban exploration this Sunday, join my Polaroids of Croydon walk. Tickets still left for the afternoon... programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12200

I, Claudius newspaper clippage.

"Nobody calling on the phone 'Cept for the pope maybe in Rome"

Oh well, it all adds to the gaiety of the nation.

Excellent piece from Ian Greaves about the campaign to reopen the BBC Written Archives for exploratory, critical academic research. It's been a public resource for decades, now it seems to have been quietly privatised without consultation with us licence fee payers. cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

I'm doing another tour of modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia for the @themodernist.bsky.social at their marvellous book fair. Quite possibly the only walking tour with an after party. Sign up here: the-modernist.org/products/mod...

Rocket-shaped Kuba Komet, 1957. Featured a 23″ B&W television, eight speakers, a Telefunken phonograph and a multi-band radio receiver.

From 'epic' onwards this is on a roll. 'on a roll' - we published his previous one. 'the long awaited follow up' - 5 years late

"Unputdownable" - unpickupable

If I had a nickel for every time the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History" said rape allegations weren't credible because everyone else said he was such a nice guy, then I'd have almost as many nickels as the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History"

Freelance friends - now's your chance. Gov. is consulting on proposals to clamp down on late and slow B2B payments, including to sole traders. Respond to the consultation here before Oct. 23: ditresearch.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Idea for a radio play (number 104). A dramatisation of the meeting between Sylvia Plath and Tony Benn in September 1962. It happened! They had afternoon tea together.

The Blitz Kids exhibition at the Design Museum includes a mocked-up pay phone, where you can listen to (v. entertaining) interviews with assorted former scenesters. The curators put instructions on it for young people baffled by telephone dials.

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

Pete Murray turned 100 yesterday, what an incredible milestone! Congratulations, Pete. I have so many great memories of being on his radio shows. He was always so supportive of the creative people he interviewed, and his work has introduced many many artists to the public. What a guy!

SURPRISE!

From the NYT's excellent introduction to the Bowie archive.

One of the nice things about paywalls is that the text fading out does perfectly encapsulates the feeling of slowly backing away from the annoying guy trying to lecture at you in the pub.

Researching something else entirely I discover that, in 2015, Bianca Jagger wrote a highly indignant and completely priceless letter to the FT. www.ft.com/content/ec91...

Astonishingly lacking in humanity. Letting someone as intellectually feeble as Oli Dugmore make an argument on a subject so serious is one thing. Publishing this nasty drivel is a moral obscenity. The whole article reads like the work of sub-Sixth Form 'pick-me' imbecile.

Apart from the obviously awful, office nights out sound mind-numbingly boring.

Amused at all the tributes that are basically like here lies Robert Redford, who was hot

Your favourite book fair returns next month, this time with opening party. I'll be leading a modernist walking tour of Marylebone as part of the programme -- more soon. the-modernist.org/blogs/news/t...

human remains up for sale at a Hampshire auction house — it’s time the trade in body parts is outlawed, as recommended by the All Party Parliamentary Group report Laying Ancestors to Rest www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2146051...

I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

I'm a day late with this but here's my @FT pod column on Death on Dubai, an (almost intolerably) dark true crime series, with accompanying documentary film, about a young Ugandan woman forced into sex work in the UAE. www.ft.com/content/9760...

Whatever happened to the renegade concept boutique? I wrote about Granny Takes A Trip and the death of London stores as art projects. on.ft.com/4nyD7lx

I mean, consider channel 4 or the BBC collaborating with Derek Jarman now. Just think about it. Would they? Where can artists go now to seek funding and mainstream backing?

Share your favourite cover versions. youtu.be/_Uz0vyj6SpY?...

Share your favourite cover versions. youtu.be/SWAHtpXJagA

This is a charming piece. on.ft.com/4nARnua

Concrete, mon amour is the new photography book by Stefano Perego. The author of Soviet Asia and Brutalist Italy takes Domus on a decade-long visual journey across the globe, from the Balkans to Japan. www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall...

Ben Shahn #BOTD 1898 Book cover for SJ Perelman's The Rising Gorge, 1961 📚🎨

Four decades after her 1984 debut, everyone still wants to look like Sade. Her influence is everywhere: on.ft.com/4nwFtkV

You have to wonder whether, if his downfall had come 60 years later, Profumo would have bothered with all that do-gooding in Hackney.

Miner Probing a Drill Hole http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sutherland-miner-probing-a-drill-hole-n05741