Gillian Darley
@gmdarksky.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, perambulator, observer. www.gilliandarley.com
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
8 days ago
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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London Review of Books on Instagram: "‘Walter Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘖𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯, published in 1922. In a way...
154 likes, 1 comments - londonreviewofbooks on December 23, 2025: "‘Walter Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘖𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯...
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9 days ago
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Here’s a New Year. The stove wins a special commendation.
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Sign the Petition
Save our Countryside
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18 days ago
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Tiny panel painting, done on the spot. Young Constable did many of these - an instantaneous and vivacious record of where his eye led him. For me the Tate Britain Turner-Constable exhibition stand-outs. See what you think?
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Erasmus programme returns to UK. Hugely welcome.
23 days ago
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The glory that is Rousham garden. Be aware, its peerless landscape setting is facing a serious threat.
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Mark Hamill
27 days ago
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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Sisters in the landscape - Miranda and Octavia Hill — FOLAR
Difficult early years gave both sisters an enduring appetite for the value of freedom and access to open ground, all based on the idea that the urban poor richly deserved access to nature. From this s...
https://www.folar.uk/events/sisters-in-the-landscape-miranda-and-octavia-hill
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Terrific talk by Selena Daly at Camden Library (local history) on Cesare Bianchi, chef, who epitomised the experience of expatriate Italians in the UK through both wars.
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Terrific talk by Selena Daly at Camden Library (local history) on Cesare Bianchi, chef, who epitomised the experience of expatriate Italians in the UK through both wars.
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Our beautiful multiplex: Milton Keynes council fights to save landmark cinema The Point
The building was once home to the UK’s first US-style multiplex cinema. Now developers are seeking to demolish it for a new housing scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/30/milton-keynes-council-fights-to-save-the-point
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Backlisted - an anchor to intelligent life. Mine was the 28th, a wee while earlier.
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about 1 month ago
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Will Wiles in Apollo nailing Jim Stirling’s Cambridge History Library as it undergoes a careful refit. Lovely piece, kicking off with Summerson.
about 1 month ago
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Read Colin Thubron’s eulogy to Gillian Tindall in Spitalfields Life. And celebrate her rare insight.
about 2 months ago
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
‘It would take us until the 22nd century to make the world noticeably fuller of people. But we can already see the way falling birth rates affect national politics and economics.’ David Runciman on the depopulation problem.
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David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/david-runciman/are-we-doomed
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Rachel Cooke. Gone. I can’t believe it. Best of a very good bunch.
about 2 months ago
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Armando Iannucci
about 2 months ago
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-5-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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Just learned that the firm responsible for the new Cairo museum also designed the Giant’s Causeway museum in N Ireland - Heneghan Peng. Strange but true!
2 months ago
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‘A model of social responsibility’: almshouses in the modern age - Apollo Magazine. Said it then, and now duly recognised and awarded.
3 months ago
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So good to hear that WWM’s Appleby Blue won the big prize! I wrote about it (and Lord Leicester’s hospital, Warwick) in Apollo, February 2024. Fantastic clients too.
3 months ago
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Well deserved plaudit for BBC director Peter Symes in Last Word on Tony Harrison. A real partnership, pioneering horse and carriage for poetry on television.
3 months ago
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Repurposing to follow? Treviso.
3 months ago
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Glorious Titian panel at the Scoletto (little Scuola) at San Antonio Padua. Look carefully. It is sublime.
3 months ago
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Perfect place to eat a Monday evening meal. Trattoria al Bersaglieri, Padua. OTTIMO.
3 months ago
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And here it is. Considered Giovanni Bellini’s masterpiece
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This is how the Fondazione Querini Stampali has chosen to welcome home its exquisite Giovanni Bellini. Outrageous and inexplicable.
3 months ago
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And in Leiston, the inspired Long House Museum, where Richard Garrett delved for many decades. Other Garretts (at Snape) include Elizabeth and Millicent. What a family.
4 months ago
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Excellent day in Leiston for
#bookfestival
. Matters rural and natural aptly discussed as Sizewell C and massive grid works lacerate the Suffolk coast. So many good topics and books featured. Check it at
www.leistonbookfestival.org.uk
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4 months ago
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Urban renewal. Currently the dirtiest of all words.
4 months ago
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Green grew the pavements, oh! For older pedestrians, a zone of continuous peril. Thanks a bunch. One very near death experience in these days, enough.,
4 months ago
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Eden Dock, Canary Wharf. Transformative landscape. Seen in perfect conditions, with thanks to the London Society. Join, why don’t you?
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Among my heirlooms, a Beatles ticket from June 1965 (in Rome) and a receipt for a paltry sum, for who knows what, from that noted fraud Inigo Philbrick. He’s on your TV at the moment.
4 months ago
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Freesias, white of course. Inky dark gladioli. One step at a time. Calm after a day battling endnotes. Autotherapy.
4 months ago
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HATING the inchoate hatred. Hurricanes come over the Atlantic - so does the ordure.
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August 25, 2025
This morning, President Donald J.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-25-2025?r=izzu4
5 months ago
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Obituary of Andrew Saint in Times. Sparkling and spot on. Anyone prepared to leak the identity of the author?
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As September approaches, I realise it’s fifty years since my Villages of Vision was published by the Architectural Press. Bit dumbfounding.
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£9 and 90 minutes. IKEA Strandad lamp. The RELIEF!
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Neat wordplay on broadcast … as in sowing
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Social realism …
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style. Anyone know the artist?
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Apollo
5 months ago
‘London was in his veins’: Gillian Darley (
@gmdarksky.bsky.social
) pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.
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‘London was in his veins’: Andrew Saint (1946–2025)
Gillian Darley remembers an architectural historian of great wit and erudition who was always keen to share his enthusiasms, which included a deep love of the capital
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My friend and university contemporary, the wonderful Efi Strousa, is being celebrated at the National Gallery in Athens. She made things happen.
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That’s
#Apollomagazine
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Excellent Fatema Ahmed celebration of the late Tom Lehrer in
#Apollo
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That was then …. Liverpool Street station now?
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That was then …. Liverpool Street station now?
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