*PUPDATE* Portrait of a dog as a young criminal…

The new Anselm Kiefer exhibition at Thaddeus Ropac near Paris did not disappoint

Yeah as pretty much everyone (here) says it’s a poor piece. Sure… prioritise economic growth…I agree…but the how and the what of that is absent.

The new Anselm Kiefer exhibition at Thaddeus Ropac near Paris did not disappoint

*PUPDATE* Portrait of a dog as a young criminal…

That vacancy does not exist because we already have an Empress of the South (and the North, while we're at it)

Who would be the King of the South? (wrong answers only please)

Wait — doesn't the UK suck now as a listing venue? It's place has diminished, but there's so much to being an international finl centre than being a major listing venue. UK is global leader in FX trading, intl banking, rates derivative trading, intl bond issuance etc. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Me, a radical idealist: I shall no longer be posting on X! Me, also a radical idealist: But you can find me on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn!

Huh

And otoh… 🥲

France seem ok at football

PUPDATE (lookalike edition) ! Oliver Reed? or Baloo Bear?

I have a question! What is the difference / correct usage for round vs around?

*PUPDATE* Baloo doing his Oliver Reed impression

*PUPDATE* Baloo doing his Oliver Reed impression

What is an industrial strategy?

*PUPDATE* Baloo is back, yes he’s back (🎵) after a very successful home stay in Normandy away from the worst of the canicule. So nice to see him so happy.

This was prescient, current boiler appears to have conked out. If Bluesky has a resident thermal store/heat battery nerd could they make themselves known?

It occurs to me that the reason why Brits are so prone to sarcasm, snark etc, is that if we took everything seriously (perhaps duly seriously) it would all be too upsetting.

Anyone recommend a bar in Paris where I can take beloved niece to watch the football on July 6th.* * Her requirements are ‘beer’ and ‘frites’. cc @jonhenley.bsky.social @stevenhseggie.bsky.social

At first sight, I don’t buy the RFK -1 and Res +6.

No *you* have been shopping in Nice for pink hair dye

Great piece…

🥵🌩️ Libération à Rennes (et globalement partout en Bretagne), après 4 jours autour de 40 °C : -15 °C en deux heures avec l'arrivée des #orages ! Demain, la maximale y sera de "seulement" 33 °C.

I mean

This is proper absolute scenes

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you try and drag me back to France yourself, you weasel-faced I'm not going to finish that sentence publicly because unfortunately I would like to remain gainfully employed

Or try (in effect) to drag us back to the UK.

I am guessing this is largely not true

This I will take as my particular hill. The markets will be positive at anything even vaguely centrist that keeps Reform out.

UPDATE I have drunk the rosé In the bar across the bridge …

Will no one think of the iPhones in this weather?

And meanwhile people are worrying about the economic consequences of Ed Miliband becoming Chancellor…

With apologies to William Carlos Williams and his plums This is Just to Say I have drunk the rosé that was in the fridge and which you were probably saving for dinner Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold

Interesting rumour re the return of Olly Robbins. Perhaps relatedly, did I read that Sue Gray was advising AB?

I don't mean to excite anyone, but I started writing down all my thoughts about the Paris Metro and 1,500 words in realised I still had so much to say I'd make it a miniseries, and this is just part one. Don't say I do nothing for you

With apologies to William Carlos Williams and his plums This is Just to Say I have drunk the rosé that was in the fridge and which you were probably saving for dinner Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold

On what planet would you want a cabinet reflecting stability of personnel when the PM who appointed that Cabinet has just been defenestrated for gross incompetency.

💯 I do not believe in the new leader ‘bounce’ but given Burnham’s popularity and Reform’s fragility / negative momentum, Labour should be aiming for *at least* polling parity.

*PUPDATE* Little B is off this afternoon to a home stay in Normandy (with aircon). He’s been there before and had a great time. It has huge grounds, rivers and other dogs — what more could a puppy want. We’ll miss him though.

Another good day for Andy Burnham: the last remotely plausible 'could this guy get 81 disparate MPs to sign up for a ridiculous leadership election' says 'what a ridiculous idea', and more importantly, Burnham's new chief of staff appointment further reassures Burnham-sceptical MPs:

Weirdly, and quite despite myself, I do find myself recalling the Johnsonian call for ‘vim and vigour’ and thinkkgn that just on that (and only that) he was right…

Not so much campaign in poetry and given in prose as campaign in prose and govern in a series of contradictory stop signs.

My reflection on the Brexit anniversary is how inextricably tied it is to the widespread perception of national decline.

But isn’t the lesson here that gilt investors actually don’t think so much about British politics (vs the reporting on the gilt market)?

Errrrrrmmmm he wasn’t ’toppled’ by a populist wave.

OK if enough people are up for it, another Bluesky drinks in London, Thurs 16 July, 7pm. Same venue [DM if you don't know it]. RSVP even if you do so I can gauge numbers.

You can buy rolls of foil-backed plastic insulation in the DIY shops. I wrapped the exhaust tube & secured it with gaffer tape to minimise the amount of heat escaping through the tube. I also constructed a window pane out of acrylic sheet & cut a round hole for the tube so the window stays sealed.