RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025).

On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

Great piece in Vittles on French university canteens www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/welfare-is... 1 euro - 3.30 for a 3 course lunch. Meanwhile, British student unions need to set up food banks...

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

I really enjoyed the vernissage today of the new Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition on print making by the Nabis, Vuillard (the subject of my 2025 book) included. A highlight: a rare test proof in alternative colours of his Pink Interior III, 1896-9. L: the proof; R: the published print.

Paris.

Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.

lol.

Well, well, well ...

I think I’ll watch Arsenal today.

Barcelona 😎

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

😮😮😮 WOW www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

YEP

Hearing Arsenal have won the European Championship. More as we get it.

Wait. Chloe Kelly has scored the winner in two Euro Finals. Has any footballer ever done that?

Chloe Kelly. She has done it again for England. Back-to-back.

Beautiful scenes. Chloe Kelly. Legend.

Forced starvation is an act of genocide. #StopTheGenocide

Beautiful scenes. Chloe Kelly. Legend.

Michelle Agyemang. Legend.

Here we Gyö! ♥️🤍

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

Anas was reporting on elderly collapsing in the streets, as people wander, gaunt and desperate, looking on in desperation.. He broke. We all broke with him. Anas is human, as are all Gazan civilians all Palestinians, enduring this inhuman, unmitigated, unending and worsening catastrophe #SaveGaza

BBC News calls the so called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation "controversial". Israel & the US established the GHF to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation & to control them, move them & kill them. The BBC, where starvation, ethnic cleansing and murder is controversial.

This is Gaza, now, I just watched an elderly man die, collapse, in a food queue, just as he was about to be served. People are, literally, dropping dead of starvation. The world must not stand idly by. Gaza has not known what you call “freedom” in, close to 80 years. The world must act.

UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting.

How do we let this starvation and this killing of civilian people continue ??

My feed on X is filled with images of visibly emaciated adults, children, and infants in Gaza. Some are dead. Israel is starving people to death.

Israel is ‘forcibly’ starving Palestinians in Gaza, advocacy group says, as 116 Palestinians killed on Saturday.

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Portuguese artist who made and exhibited in Paris in the interwar period and was a leader of abstract expressionist group Art Informel. Ought to be better known, of course. Self-Portrait, 1930. Peggy Guggenheim Coll. Figure de ballet, 1948. Galerie Jeanne Bucher.

‘I think we have slightly forgotten the idea of this broader concept of hospitality as being quite necessary to the health of the host society, not just the incoming society.’ Wise words from @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Marina Warner on.ft.com/3Tvd1D1

Louise Bourgeois, The Insomnia Drawings, November 1994 – June 1995.

It’s a Sketches of Spain kinda evening 🎺🔥

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Detail of a Gwen John watercolour with powdery flaking gouache! I’ve been treating this one in the studio by applying a very dilute adhesive made from funori (seaweed) through a medical nebuliser, which turns the adhesive into a fine vapour. Conservation equipment comes from many other disciplines!

I have voted to decriminalise abortion. The 1967 Act really only set out grounds for exceptions from what stayed a criminal offence. Today we start to treat abortion rightly as a regulated healthcare choice. It should be a clear human right to access abortion when you need it.

British MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion, a big step forward for reproductive rights.

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

manufacturing consent machine really kicking in for war in Iran huh

As someone who has written on Van Gogh: the tourist did a dumb thing, but idea of a chair covered in Swarovski crystals as fitting homage to Van Gogh is equally obtuse. Van Gogh, who embraced beauty of simple, rustic objects, would almost certainly have hated it www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

anyone who’s done sustained historical research will recognize the feeling that it just takes soooo long. SO much longer than you’d think when starting the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method

Egregious murderer

Solidarity with the Louvre workers. It is beyond time to move the Mona Lisa to its own building (maybe in a neighbourhood in need of economic investment). Install a travelator in front of the painting for the gawkers en masse. Sorted.

Merci, quel honneur, surtout dans une telle liste ! Et merci @pustrasbourg.bsky.social pour tout le soutien avant, durant et après...

I don't think the old men & their friends have been so stupid about violence since the last time the old men & their friends were so stupid about violence.