One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But… 1/3

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Three Flowers, Paul Klee 1920

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#LetsDoIt25 D10T2 - My Woman - Lew Stone & Monseigneur Band, voc. Al Bowlly - 1932 Yes, the sample, but the song is an absolute banger on its own merits. Third appearance by Nat Gonella so far, although only one credited www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7N...

UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this

Quack medicine stall, Bolton’s open market, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender. Visiting a doctor was expensive, so people relied on such stalls.

Morning! How are we all? Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning. You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘

Just as with pretty much everything else, we should expect the Labour government to learn exactly the wrong lesson from the BBC fiasco.

The Observer’s (editorial) view.

Morning, folks - it's the start of a new week again and here's hoping you all have a good one, wherever it takes you... 😎👍 Photo: Edale, November 2021 #MondayMotivation #PeakDistrict #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin

Lectureship (full-time, permanent) in Economics at the University of York, UK. Good university; strong, supportive department; great place to live. #EconSky

Last week, in the hush of the Romanesque crypt at St Mary’s, Lastingham, I 📸 a 10th-century cross-shaft — Viking interlace entwined with Saxon geometry — a visual and decorative bridge between cultures and continuity.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1677, in Amsterdam, Aert van der Neer. Painter of the cold cold days (& sometimes nights) of Dutch winters.

Now that the dust is settling, read this excellent thread - the opposite of a hot take - by Watson’s biographer (out in a year or so!) You’ll see how complicated a 97 year life can be.

Millbottom, Oldham, c.1931, painting by James Purdy, 1900-72 (Gallery Oldham).

Definitely worth a (re-)watch. Galbraith an excellent and engaging presenter. “On one matter, Smith and the physiocrats did agree: public expenditure, and therewith the burden of taxation, must be kept down… This was not a thought that had occurred strongly to Louis XIV.”

There are many ways to remember the sacrifice of the First World War: a reminder of the 120,000 headstones produced by the Hopton Wood Stone Company in Middleton (Derbyshire), carried by the Cromford and High Peak Railway to Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries. #RemembranceDay

This is brilliant! The memories haunted South London when I was growing up.

'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.

A great story

For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI: Perhaps one day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue. And feel once more I do not live in vain, Although bereft of You

'The Mugabe Suite'

If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it,

something slightly ironic about using a log-scale graph to depict the possibility of collapse to zero

The Parish Church of St Margaret, Eartham in West Sussex. #WestSussex #SteepleSaturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #Churches #Photography

Love the story about Uncle ‘arry’s burglary. What scamps.

Sailing Boat on the Seine at Asnieres, 1887 #postimpressionism #vangogh

Late medieval bead, likely from a rosary, with a skull on one side and a face on the other, indicating just how closely live and death were intertwined. From the Museum of London Docklands exhibition, ‘Secrets of the Thames’

Cool: a medieval 14th c. wooden road was discovered in Antwerp. Photo: Stad Antwerpen

Yorkshire Photo of the Day - A corner of Knaresborough.

The wonderful train stop in Taormina, Sicily.

I am Labour to the core and will always stand up for Labour values, to be a voice for those in need and to seek justice at every opportunity. I will continue to work hard for my constituents in #York as their Labour and Co-operative MP. Full statement on my website, link in comments 👇

no longer sub judice then

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935) 📷 google images

He's seen fire. He's seen rain. The problem is what else he's seen.

Excellent news if you’re unfamiliar with this, Chris Brookmyre’s first book from 1996, and the first of his Jack Parlabane series. Unravel the mystery of the turd on the mantelpiece.

Brook with Aloes (Le ruisseau aux aloès), Henri Matisse 1907

Saint Barbara #TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510 Linden wood, originally painted. “The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

Oldham Street, Manchester, c.1900 (Manchester Libraries).

🌅📸 I took this at sunrise this week – the Rudston Monolith in Yorkshire, England’s largest standing stone. At the heart of a 4,000-year-old ritual landscape of four cursus monuments, it’s a sacred site that influenced the siting of the medieval All Saints Church. #thread

Not really thought about this before but, especially if it gets a bit rowdy, it is quite hard to keep count up to six questions. (Though less so if you’re the one asking them, I suppose.) I wonder if one of the clerks is specifically tasked with doing this?

Baleine d’Or

Food cupboard of oak, English make, 1500-1600 (V&A Museum, London

“A key question could be whether the court determines whether Trump's tariffs are a tax.” Interesting if they decide not. Cue mass re-writing of econ textbooks. Not to mention dictionaries.

Portrait of a Boy aged 11 Jacob van Oost the elder, 1660. (The National Gallery, London)

Guy Fawkes' signature before and after he spent 7 years at Medical School.