This interview of @hahauenstein.bsky.social with @dirkmoses.bsky.social is probably the most useful and concise discussion and introduction to the moral abyss that is Germany's memory culture, out there.

We're delighted to announce that Nigella Lawson is joining FT Weekend's food & drink pages as a columnist.⁠ Her first monthly column will appear in FT Weekend Magazine on April 4. Until then, you can read what she has already written for the FT here ft.trib.al/Vg2IlEI

hmmmm 🍿

Niche question but my brain and a search of the literature is failing me - what examples do we have of cursus monuments with clusters of arrowheads at the terminus ends? I feel like this is an oft-repeated 'fact' but don't know any sites where this is the case.

A beautiful display of yellow crocuses and white snowdrops are bursting through in Hyde Park 💛 Spring is not far away 🔜

sometimes

🩺 Chimiothérapie "inutile", diabolisation du sucre ou traitements "alternatifs": les fausses informations sur les cancers peuvent nuire aux patients, en provoquant un retard de soin, des complications voire un décès, alertent les professionnels. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2dV

FT exclusive Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

job

Look at these maps! I mean, really look at them:

Exclusive Chatsworth Garden tour with Tom Stuart-Smith for Horatio’s Garden thedirt.news/exclusive-ch... #gardensforgood #horatiosgarden #tomstuartsmith

don't give up

HE RESIGNED

Starmer gets officials to draft legislation to remove Mandelson's peerage, as No 10 asks police to investigate his leaks to Epstein - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

yet more 🍿

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Precisely.

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the long January

please make it happen please

ahahahahaha lakeoswegoreview.com/2026/02/02/l...

The death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.

I think I am going to buy one of these for Pooch.

it's always cocktail time somewhere

PE on the money, again

A trust that provides grants to musicians, dancers, singers and performers whose work is rooted in folk and traditional music and arts of any culture has opened its 2026 round of funding.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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A few snowdrops have the ability to change the colour of their markings. I’ve proposed the name ‘var mutabilis’. This is a lovely robust polyploid mutabilis found in south Norfolk - the inner mark slowly bleeds from green to yellow.

surprise

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I think the chance of free & fair mid-terms are slim to none.

me me me in London

You don't have to believe that the fascists are competent enough to suppress voting everywhere in 2026 or 2028. You just have to believe that they can depress minority turnout in 5-10 cities to affect entire Senate races & the Electoral College. 2024 was decided by 120K votes in 3 states, after all.

This is heartbreaking, especially when combined with the Kennedy Center closure and all of the other terrible news. www.bostonartreview.com/read/mfa-bos...

For years, police in the UK have been using facial recognition technology with no laws in place regulating its use. The public is finally being asked what we think. Don't miss your chance to have your say, here's how we will be responding 👇 www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/facial...

of course he did

“Measles outbreak at the prison for kids” sounds like something out of a Dickens novel

meanwhile Mars

Wall Tile https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.649

May his memory be a blessing.

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a turning point

OH

This Tuesday! Also, I’m doing a little workshop on writing for the public on Wednesday morning, so if you’re in the Ann Arbor area and want to come, let me know!