Look at the beautiful vintage photos of Veeraswamy, and a glimpse of its menus from 1940s and '50s. I hope it is saved. Maybe I should write to the King and send him a copy of my book, which places the significance of Veeraswamy in a broader context. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is Han-Solo-in-Carbonite for the watching-The-Generation-Game-at-your-nan's generation.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social BBC and other mainstream news media continue to fail us. I get better analysis from a The Office social media meme.

For some respite from the daily horror I’ve been watching Patience #PatienceTV www.channel4.com/programmes/p... Absolutely love it! "filmed in York, follows Patience Evans, played by Ella Maisy Purvis, a young autistic woman who works in the criminal records department of Yorkshire Police."

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

What the actual fuck is this word salad?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

thankyou to the Beckham family for their services to distraction at this difficult time, you may stand down until Iceland is invaded by accident

I just got my copy of The Solitary Gourmet by Taniguchi Jiro & Kusumi Masayuki which I pre-ordered from Right Stuf back years ago. For various reason the publication was delayed until last October, the publisher is a small operation so delays are not unusual.

Seriously looking forward to new material from PVA

Paper Trails – 50 pre-war tourist maps from Japan, all beautifully illustrated & bound in a book. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pap... Only available at P&C, because we made it.

After a week in Florence and Rome (Fra Angelico and visiting a friend) I’m about 95% Chianti. Next week is Independent Venue Week #IVW26 so I’ll get back to being 95% IPA. @ivwuk.bsky.social

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

EXC: Zack Polanski tells us Britain should consider closing US military bases, leave Nato and denuclearise, as he begins to flesh out the Greens’ foreign policy. Also spells out to @pippacrerar.bsky.social and me his red lines in any coalition talks to come. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lost restaurants

Arriving at Stazione Fiumicino Aeroporto at night resembles the grimy entrance to a dystopian mining facility on Mars.

'Night Strobe', Seven Sisters (1985) by Denzil Forrester stephenfriedman.com/artists/35-denzil-forrester

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Tributes paid as Black Midi’s Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin dies, age 26: “You beautiful genius” “Please take a moment to check in with your loved ones so we can stop this happening to our young men" www.nme.com/news/music/t...

#bbcnews this morning interviewing a Met officer about murder stats in London going down used Donald Trump’s views as being relevant - get a grip BBC

Instagram experienced a recent data breach exposing details of ~17.5M users. • Leaked: usernames, full names, emails, phone numbers, partial addresses, user IDs (no passwords) • Data appeared on BreachForums; Meta silent so far • Surge in phishing/password reset attempts reported #Instagram

#cybercrime #instagram #cybersecurity

Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

The problem with Slow Horses is that it makes series like The Night Manager seem as dull as dishwater.

This Just In: Chinese Lettering Manuals, 1930–1971 In our ongoing effort to expand the story of graphic design beyond the Western canon, we’re consulting experts and collecting objects in other scripts. Read Synoptic Office’s article on the latest collection: letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju...

This Tokyo subway poster warning passengers not to rush onto trains gets updated every year to match the Chinese zodiac. (This year it’s the year of the horse.)

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Happy New Year

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

DISCOVR: 2/36 discovr.uk

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Sally from @persepolis-peckham.bsky.social is raising money for Stroke Association "as Mrs. S. had a stroke, in July 2025, and it was a thing. She is fighting fit and very excited about the following year...but we are keen to help others" www.justgiving.com/page/sally-b...

This is overwhelmingly beautiful and pure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baste. Baste. Baste.

Happy Christmas all. Oven on, turkey out of fridge.

I’d never seen this until this evening. Isn’t it wonderful? ♥️

@discovruk.bsky.social Getting server errors

Bring back patterned kitchenware!

And we’re on walkabouts! Next January 25th we’re walking and raising money for Stroke Association. Please send us a few pennies to help us raise money for the cause… www.justgiving.com/page/sally-b...

Thank you to the artists, their teams, and their fans for including a voluntary grassroots levy on their tickets this year. If this initiative isn't directly led by the music industry, it will be led by government and less in all of our collective control.

Wonder if this is Aberdeen Fish Market?

Martin Parr, 1952 – 2025. It’s hard to think of anyone else who has contributed so much to such an unblinkered view of modern Britain, always with an affectionate and humorous eye.

Steve Cropper obituary by Richard Williams www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Real mail… Piece of Paper Press - Obita Dicta. Thank you @tonywhite.bsky.social

RIP Steve Cropper - such sad news. Here's a playlist of some classic Stax tunes that he co-wrote and performed on, featuring Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd, Wendy Rene, Don Covay... ▶️🎸 open.spotify.com/playlist/7qH...

Having the last word can be so sweet..... www.theguardian.com/food/comment...