Friday! Lunchtime! Something to read to distract you from all the very, very boring chat about What The Burnham Win Means! Web Curios! So many links, so little Tedious Westminster Psychodrama! Click! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

The White Hotel is a special and rare thing. DIY, avant garde, unapologetic, hedonistic and mischievous, everything corporate places can never be but would love to be. I was grateful to have the opportunity to celebrate its decade of achievement and to break the news of its mutation into new arenas.

Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue

wonder at the timing of the future king selling off 20% of the duchy of Cornwall. were I an incoming PM with a big debt bill and a desire to renationalise crucial services, I’d see the disputed duchies as a potential target. windsors not popular, their medieval income clearly unjust. Let’s have it.

I was very excited about The Groucho snapping up Breton Hall, which has been falling into ruin for years, and wrote it up for Off the Fence. But nothing has happened there, and this brilliant piece of reporting begins to explain why.

I love italy so much. I'm going to Bologna on 17th June and I've just had an email back form a restaurant at which i tried to book a table saying it was way too early to reserve and suggesting I get back in touch "a metà giugno"

I do so enjoy a shit cocktail.

The 90s: Art & Fashion at Tate Britain Oct 26 — Feb 27 Featuring images by @stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social As seen in the two Linden Archives publications so far. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... #photography #photographyexhibition #booksky

Oh deary me this thread has me cackling through tears

great piece

“How the World Declared War on America” In the wilderness of America, JG Ballard foresaw the gangster imperialism of Donald Trump By Mark Blacklock ( @drblacklock.bsky.social ) archive.ph/8T8qc

“How the World Declared War on America” In the wilderness of America, JG Ballard foresaw the gangster imperialism of Donald Trump By Mark Blacklock

Fantastic video podcast with @helenpidd.bsky.social and the Today in Focus team talking about Farage on Cameo. Really brilliant editing and presentation of the material we’ve analysed. www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

whenever these stories come around i wonder what my former editor Jo lamb thinks. We identified Banksy in Bizarre magazine in 2001 in a piece by Jamaican snapper Peter dean rickards. @admiralbooth.bsky.social will back me up on this www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“Nine of Farage’s Cameo videos appear to have been recorded on Christmas Day. Four were seemingly recorded on the day of the queen’s funeral, including one produced for a stag do, and another in which Farage made a vulgar sexual reference to “shenanigans” in a cabin and “Deez Nuts”.”

Guy Debord and Asger Jorn Mémoires, 1959 Famously wrapped in a détournement of sandpaper to rub any books near to it, up the wrong way.

Robert Smithson's secrets of the ambulatories....

This was my absolute favourite from the last issue. I walk the dog sometimes across the river Wharfe from Heselden's estate near to Boston Spa. I had heard of his unfortunate demise, but had no idea of his amazing life. What a mensch.

Fascinating insights to the ideological and biographical rumblings in the background of Anthropic/Hegseth fight from @maxread.info open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

pipeline from @thefence.bsky.social to guardian going strong

A bandcamp debut! offalindustries.bandcamp.com/album/an-alb...

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood citing the work of dystopian cyberpunk author William Gibson to justify more facial recognition vans

Updated again: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Train journey to town with the beloved to go see The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and onto drinks party with auld pals means 2 hours with @thefence.bsky.social and the joy of a @williamasclarke.bsky.social quiz

There is not one, but TWO nominations for The Fence in the @financialtimes.com's list of articles of the year! www.ft.com/content/72d0...

The Fence is extraordinary - funny, brilliant, couldn't be dull if it tried, and read by tastemakers and senior pols alike. I've been very lucky to have pieces in its pages. A sub makes a great xmas present, and this draw has banging prizes. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...

Following a long email discussion with a devotee of popular behavioural science, who invokes left- and right-brain, and talks of cut-through, opposing emotions to facts, I'm left wondering: has this branch of psychology essentially wound back the Enlightenment? Paging @thatneilmartin.bsky.social

“This will not be business as usual, but rather business unusual, business unconventional,” said the BVI premier at the start of his tenure. But no one knew quite how unusual it would turn out to be. Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Stand by for a dose of Mitford Mania, as Rory Macneish meets Ben Treuhaft, the son of Decca, a piano tuner living between Edinburgh and the West Midlands. But does he share his mother's politics? www.the-fence.com/sent-to-cove...

On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.

EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa" from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me

further to the quoted section below from one former pupil: The Guardian has acquired a copy of the Dulwich College roll in 1980. It shows (this collage is just an excerpt) how there were 13 pupils that year with the surname Patel, and 12 with the surname Smith.

Tomorrow’s front page:

The God's Fox exhibition runs until January. Trip to Brum?

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Even if you interpret "the one person who said I directly abused him" the other way - the Guardian has spoken to seven people who say they recall the targeted abuse of Peter Ettedgui. e.g. Stefan Benarroch: “He was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare,”

Worth adding this is not an accurate representation by Farage of our reporting to date. Y'day's story: Cyrus Oshidar, described as “rubbish” the claim that the Reform leader did not act with intent to hurt. "Being called a Paki isn’t hurtful?" Oshidar asked. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As Peter reports, that’s absolutely not the case. This minority ethnic pupil was 8 years younger than Farage when he says he was targeted for abuse.

NEW: Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.

In light of Farage’s reversal to outright denial, and insistence that what we reported happened “50 years ago” when he was “just entering my teens”, it is worth highlighting the testimony of Andy Field, who started the ball rolling. Farage abused his position as a prefect at Dulwich to be racist.

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New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui. w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social

This timelline shows not only how all over the place he is, but also how Farage initially tried to stop us reporting the testimony of 20 of his peers: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... from @direthoughts.com and Dan Boffey

NEW: Lord Dannatt and Lord David Evans of Watford face suspension of 4mo/5mo respectively from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled they had broken lobbying rules. Reports from the conduct committee follows Guardian investigations into the peers. w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social

Two more former Dulwich College pupils have come forward, on the record, to say they heard Farage racially abusing Peter Ettedgui, Latest story with Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

There is no one on the internet wot knows their marbles like Matt. This is the highest praise for OFFAL.

Farage’s wholesale denial of detailed racism claims is ‘troubling’, says former extremism adviser