Shocking red: behind the scenes on classic horror Don’t Look Now – in pictures

Alabaster figure of the Virgin and Child, probably sculpted in the English Midlands. c. 1350 - 1375. A rare survival, intact and unbroken, with traces of the original polychromy. (British Museum, 2016,8041.1 - for more photos)

The boys at The Stadium of Light

The truth: Russia’s fingerprints are all over Brexit and Reform UK. Farage’s spin machine keeps selling “sovereignty”… while his top lieutenants were literally on Moscow’s payroll. But only the NYT is telling the full story. Why is 🇬🇧 press so quiet on this? archive.ph/2025.09.26-1...

The Madness of Fear https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-madness-of-fear

A major survey of the 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier has just opened at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 2018, Katlijne Van der Stighelen wrote about curating the first ever exhibition dedicated to the Flemish artist

Brigitte Bardot (born #otd) and Leonor Fini on their way to the Surrealist Ball at the Castle of Ferrières, Paris, December 1972.

Trump and Tony Blair to run Gaza- what could go wrong ? Terrifying

youtu.be/VRLj2GdCYcU?... DANNY THOMPSON R.I.P. 🙏 JOHN MARTYN KATHY MATTEA 'May You Never'

Starmer going on about patriotism again. Change the narrative don’t pander to the Right. I was brought up with the concept of internationalism. My grandmother was Irish, other antecedents Scots, I live in the far North with Denmark opposite. Lets talk about who we are in a more intelligent way

Haway the Lads #safc

Surely Man U have got to get rid….

My father was a pharmacist and he told me in the 1960s that doctors would often ease the dying out with the help of something called The Brompton Cocktail and other drugs. It was understood that if someone was dying in acute pain their agony should not be protracted. It was compassionate

If burgundy is the colour of the new season then how about this? Continuing my theme of matchy matchy, here some #1950s vintage Dior comprising an off the shoulder gown with a voluminous matching coat #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Evoking all the glamour of thirties chic, a dress of two halves that combines some sleek black with an inventive bodice, sprinkled with rhinestones. It just needs a smoky, low lit bar and jazz filled dance floor @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

"The act of sewing is a process of emotional repair" - Louis Bourgeois #WomensArt

I still don’t understand why the Democrats aren’t shouting Trump’s perfidy to the roof tops. The passivity is extraordinary. It’s business as usual-except it isn’t. It goes without saying that the GOP is complicit, but IMO the Democrats have a responsibility to formidably challenge what’s going on

Actually, London is a beautiful, fantastic city that has been made better thanks to immigration and clean energy. Mayor Sadiq Khan has improved it substantially while, it turns out, not having any plans to impose Sharia Law.

What a disgrace. The way he spoke about Khan and London, the lies he told. Starmer needs to condemn this immediately. Trump is an absolute scourge. We cannot pretend that this man’s opinions are worth listening to. We have to stand up to him

There must be huge amounts of acorns this year. My squirrel family which run along the wall opposite my house, are back and forth like never before, each clutching part of the acorn bounty

More Early Renaissance soul soothers

“To his fans, McEwan is one of the most thoughtful and enjoyable literary novelists around. To his critics, he is the centrist dad of English fiction.” on.ft.com/4ngAjd4

Big exhibition of Fra Angelico opening in Florence next weekend! www.palazzostrozzi.org/archivio/mos...

Historically our moral character and laws in the UK have been rooted in the precepts of Christianity. Increasing secularisation has left a moral void, which could have been filled with humanitarianism, respect for others,but has instead has been filled with racism and unkindness

Some Early Renaissance art to soothe the soul

I may be naive,but it’s beyond me how the Democrats can watch on as fascism moves a pace and say they are waiting for the Mid Terms. It is too late already , by then God knows

Neil Young started his Farm Aid set with his anti-Trump fascism in the White House song.

“He was talking negatively about me directly… proclaiming I was involved in the great white replacement. Yeah, I’m not honoring that.” – Rep. Jasmine Crockett 👏🏽 This is courage. Period.

Chris Sutton said we were magnificent - blimey

Haway, Sunderland…

Peter, Paul and Mary provided a gateway to Bob Dylan for me in my early teens

The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-temptation-of-st-anthony-1516-1

If you haven’t been to Blackwell House and you are in the Lakes, do go. It is exquisite

Kings message to Trump “ Stand up to tyranny of Putin”. Tell you what why don’t the Gov and monarchy stand up to tyranny of Trump? Let’s stand up to despots wherever we find them§

One to watch

Southbank Centre to ‘galvanise’ nation with Festival of Britain celebration

Starmer should publicly defend Sadiq Khan. Trump has no right to insult the mayor of London in such a disgusting way. The fact that he is allowed to get away with this appalling behaviour again and again without emphatic comeback is part of the problem

Who knew international relations could be so complicated? www.politico.eu/article/denm...

After The Goldrush, the third studio album by Neil Young is released #OTD 1970 on Reprise Records.

'Cambrian Road, Richmond' (1913-1914) by Spencer Gore (Yale Center for British Art)

Zoey Frank, Living Room (oil on linen, 2018)

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Starmer has pulled out all the stops to flatter and impress Trump, but still hasn’t managed to get him to drop his damaging tariffs, take on Putin or tell Netanyahu to stop waging genocide. It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.

I want to watch the Newcastle match-as a neutral of course 😉. I haven’t access to TNT. The dispersal of football coverage is so frustrating

Thank God he is leaving

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‘Security concerns’ the BBC’s euphemism for ‘this is a president so intensely loathed by the British public he has to be kept well away from them.’

Wonderful