I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

Historical bants at Standon House

You get that 1925 advert for ukulele sheet music? Sure did boss, real fucken somehow depicting the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, just like you asked

RIP, you would have smashed it on here x

Bluesky’s really fun, I think you’d like it.

anyone got recommendations for waterproof cycling trousers? NOT overtrousers, and not high-viz reflective ones, something that looks near enough to 'normal' clohtes when I'm off my bike. Thanks!

anyone got recommendations for waterproof cycling trousers? NOT overtrousers, and not high-viz reflective ones, something that looks near enough to 'normal' clohtes when I'm off my bike. Thanks!

OMG 😭

the junctions where I’ve had near misses were both cases of cars turning into me where I had right of way, in broad daylight, and only stopping inches from my body (and I wasn’t going especially fast)

shameless (but correct) propaganda from Big Bean www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anytime a list of experts comes out in the U.K. :

I am told shipments of my book are on their way by air/sea from the US, as OUP try to meet demand, which has exceeded their expectations. A reprint is also now underway. The key message is, if you want this for Christmas, ORDER IT NOW. It's had glowing reviews. Also available on Kindle immediately.

Gerrit van Honthorst Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) The artist was b. #otd 4 Nov 1592, d. 27 Apr 1656

Fallen leaf creates concentric circles.

wonderful stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZFl...

Today I found a little reminder of how much nicer our streets were before we enabled mass car ownership

Good falafel to be had in East Dulwich, just off Lordship Lane 🥙

Dead Man Walking - a powerful and humane opera about an inhumane system. The lead performances from Michael Mayes and Christine Rice are particularly strong 👏 👏 👏

I should know better but the west end? On a rainy late Saturday afternoon in November? Enough to make anyone turn Steppenwolf

Absolutely Biblical downpour in Streatham Heights and the Met Office app says it’s not raining

This tedious British spectacle of largely symbolic punishments - retracted honours, token fines, the ritual humiliations of a select committee hearing. There is a yawning chasm in British politics for a party with a simple policy platform: 'rich people go to jail'.

Grieg sitting down to write In the Hall of the Mountain King, 1875

Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.

people on classical music LinkedIn love to put 'about last night...' for their post-concert posts, and each time it only makes me think of those awkward watercooler scenes in TV shows when two characters have ill-advisedly bonked after the office party

Fully on board with this kind of library signage, proudly bearing the TORCH of WISDOM

least appropriate congratulations of all time

The young Liszt swanning around Switzerland being a puffed-up dickhead, you love to see it

Angela Hewitt is *furious* on the socials because Radio 3 sped up her recording of the Schumann concerto they played during the interval of her recital tonight, making the pitch too high. Anybody catch it? Seems a bizarre thing to happen

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Been a while since I last checked but IKEA still sells its TILLGÅNG plastic tray that looks almost identical to an oven tray besides being made from polypropylene and has multiple one-star customer reviews from people who have disastrously oven baked it. applink.ikea.com/tY8M9r9M4w--...

The young Liszt swanning around Switzerland being a puffed-up dickhead, you love to see it

They should've got Brian Harvey to model this.

what if we kissed at the candlelit meat loaf tribute show

Started this today, it’s really good

an unfortunate TL alignment

Got this fine-looking art history book yesterday, second hand and reduced to £5. It contains the smallest and neatest personal inscription I’ve ever seen in my book purchasing life

I’ve started recording falafel signage on my hungry travels 🥙

I’m in Bury St Edmond’s where of course a pretty town square is… a big car park.

What is it about the ‘villain who likes classical music’ trope that makes it so enduring? I just read Piranesi and you knew the bad guy was a wrong’un straight away because he was listening to Berlioz in his own home 😱

An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

True Welsh poetry

meanwhile on X

This is a real red flag about any boss let alone the PM.

vestal derby

The power of branding is brilliantly illustrated by Joe & The Juice, a chain which sells something I buy lots of (coffee) but which does so in a package of such cynical and lazy weaponised Americana that my very soul recoils in horror, and I refuse to so much as step over its threshold.

Inventing a shape to get mad at.

Emmas was 2 years above me at secondary school, her death at such a young age is unbearably sad. Aside from donating, there is a petition in the article for more funding for brain tumour research. My dad died of the same type in 2018 - please consider signing braintumourresearch.org/blogs/in-our...

It's not a shock that a genre with so much sexism and misogyny would lead to working environments with sexism and misogyny, but having had furniture thrown at you as a woman director is still jarring