Some shitty Chanel watch is the sponsor of tomorrow's Boat Race and their marketing copy is a perfect example of the worst kind of writing out there.

I have never been a huge fan of the sculptural work of Lynn Chadwick, but it was today I realised that the artist is male and not female, and Lynn not Lyn. I am a (respected?) art critic.

Ah, this is why you need a journalist-free newsroom?

God, I'd forgotten about the intolerable & intolerant Starkey. This post reminded me of the time I unexpectedly met him a couple of years ago. He was meant to be talking about Hever Castle but instead rambled incoherently about feminism & Nigel Farage. recessed.space/00213-Hever-...

The new Nederlands Fotomuseum reuses a Rotterdam warehouse & offers the city a new architectural approach by @willjennings.bsky.social recessed.space/00319-Nederl...

Just dipping back into Twitter/X for some meaningful architectural theory.

Just dipping back into Twitter/X for some meaningful architectural theory.

While on the antifash march today I had a look at the paintings for sale along Hyde Park's railings. Wow, what a fascinating mix. My favourites are the incredibly realistic renderings of London, and in particular the Houses of Parliament and red buses.

I see that three of the few remaining major NEOM contracts have been cancelled. What a sad loss for humanity & I hope the firms involved take a cold shower and hard look at themselves. To mark its demise here are some of my words on it from a talk in Vilnius: youtu.be/xwk0UH5vQLY?...

I would say that who cares about this? In the UK we have the names & faces of kings and queens, but really why does it matter in a world that increasingly nobody uses cash because it's cumbersome, filthy and silly. But then I recall that of course the US still uses cash, they still use cheques ffs!

If any publication wants me to write about why as fans we are so so so so fucked off and why this is a bigger story than one club but about how Farage is using old tools to weasel into communities, but why it should not work because we can stand up en mass and tell him to fuck off, DMs open

“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it, it’s the noise, the passion the feeling of belonging." Sir Bobby Robson

On one hand, I'm very concerned about algorithms affecting politics and taste to the benefit of fascists and capitol. On the other hand, this is the stuff meta are targeting at me with their algorithm.

On one hand, I'm very concerned about algorithms affecting politics and taste to the benefit of fascists and capitol. On the other hand, this is the stuff meta are targeting at me with their algorithm.

neat www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/a...

Nick Ames saying what needs to be said @nickames82.bsky.social #itfc www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Thrilled to hear this - put that in your pipe, Timothée 🙃

I'm inside a solicitors to get some legal docs signed for work, and I'm guessing they don't specialise in workplace law as two people here are smoking. It fucking stinks.

This is one of the lowest days in the long and proud history of @ipswichtown.bsky.social, a club built on real community values that chanted down racist songs by Chelsea thugs in the 1980s. I'm ashamed.

Happy @alcs.co.uk day to all who celebrate. A very grateful annual Royalties Statement for my writing over 2025 that goes some way to alleviating the extremely low pay and precarity of freelance writing.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Both these popped up today on my social media and my response to both was that we perhaps shouldn't rely on private cars to be the way we connect places and people.

While he also talks about how much he loves the Doors… Show me the way To the next little girl Oh don′t ask why Oh don't ask why

Gosh, how brave and powerful of Moby to take a stand against a song where absolutely nobody is having a bad time of it at the end of the night. Unlike, say, Natalie Portman when she met Moby www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

I will say about Lola the thing I always say about Lola: nobody is having a bad time at the end of that night. Unlike, say, Natalie Portman's experiences with Moby www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

Oh he's annoying. It's from 1970, not 2026, what does he mean "unevolved"? At the time Davies had gay & trans friends, the song came from a good place. Lola was banned/edited across the world by radio stations & is considered important in acceptance of queer messaging in pop music.

The guy published a booky wook, critics read it, they disagreed fundamentally with quite weird and dangerous messaging in it, but apparently the issue is them not listening, not him badly communicating bad ideas.

As always, these articles dutifully fade out just when you can't take any more...

This is better than Grayson Fucking Perry's bike. 'Cavalry' by Amos Nappo See it here hyphastudios.com/arcade/ Buy it here hyphacurates.com/products/cav...

I'm sure this is how America will want to be remembered

If I ask AI to write an email for me I need to spend the same amount of time it would have taken to edit it & make it personal and sensible. Every day I deal with legal documents, but I'm not getting AI to draft them as I don't have the knowledge to know how to go in to edit & repair them.

This is better than Grayson Fucking Perry's bike. 'Cavalry' by Amos Nappo See it here hyphastudios.com/arcade/ Buy it here hyphacurates.com/products/cav...

Masterful gambit, sir

I am told you can watch online here, if you are board on a Friday afternoon at work! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prokalo-le...

There are only a few other known Will Jennings' - @drjennings.bsky.social on here, the dead Titanic lyricist (who I still sometimes get emails for), and this one:

These paintings are about 68,000 years old, but ok Marc, you know best I guess.

I didn't realise George Nicholson passed recently. For a few years I was a trustee alongside him on a Southwark charity, but didn't get the chance to meet him much. As this article explains he was instrumental in the people-first improvements to London's South Bank. share.google/kfFExl5Wo2tf...

For 5 years I've written countless articles for a variety of art & architecture mags, each one about £150-200 & each from a pitch for which every 'yes please' there are at least ten rejections. For five months I've not been pitching & not a single publication has tried to commission me.

The Irish President:

London meeting venue help please! I have planned a staff training for me and 4 employees of my art charity tomorrow, Wednesday, 10-12. The venue I planned to use at short notice is not available. I would love some recs for free spaces I can use. Or if you have a space and want to help the arts....

Colonisation for the 21st century.

It starts with Buster Keaton's last film, from 1966 and about construction site safety in Canada - filmed a few weeks before he died - and focuses mainly on his 1917-1931 period. I guess now I have spent so long creating an hour-long thing, any other universities want to pay me to talk, DM's open.

I'm not sure that the UK needs a SNL skit-news show, not least because whenever I see clips of SNL it's tedious, but *if* we are creating one to comment on the breadth of news, politics & culture why would it have a cast entirely aged between 26 & 36 years old? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

For those of us old enough to know that there was top-flight football before the Premier League was formed in 1992, I see your Max Dowman and I raise you Jason Dozzell, 16y 57d when he scored for #itfc vs #pusb in 1984.

Building the lecture on Buster Keaton and architecture I am giving at University of Edinburgh next week.

Anything worse in TV/films when a narrative completely fucks up urban or architectural truth? It's like the heaviest fourth wall smashed through. This in in Series 2of The Capture, which I am just catching up on. Within 10 seconds the protagonist warped from Heathrow to Stansted.

I quite dislike Alan Sugar, but at least compared to the US Apprentice dickboss at least he understands percentages...

"come work in the arts," they say, "it's all creative joy & fun." I've spent two hours scraping exhibition vinyl off a wall, & today had a meeting with a billionaire, recycled 300 private view booze bottles, argued with my bookkeeper, had anxiety with legal things & done not a single creative thing.

A week is a long time in politics.

“He should be ashamed and he should resign.” Siân Berry on Keir Starmer’s moral failings in appointing Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador, on #BBCQT.