I wasn’t permitted to visit my mum in her care home while this scumbag enjoyed parties in 10 Downing Street.

Why exclude ageing Tory voters, the very group to whom the policy is intended to appeal, from belatedly doing their National Service? Bring back the Home Guard.

EXCL: Greg Hands triggers backlash after spamming Whatsapp group of parents of boys at elite St Paul's School - alma mater of George Osborne, etc. - about Labour's private school plans.

Trade minister told 'stop assuming everyone's a Tory' and that some feel it is 'hard to

Happy 100th birthday to Marhsall Allen, born in the same year as James Baldwin and Max Roach and living to tell it. Really a legend.

Always loved this pic. So modernist looking. Augustus Pablo and friends near the World Trade Center, 1976.

Great review by Helen Barrett of The Secret Public in the print edition of the Financial Times today

Wait. I can't. It's just too stupid.

The sorry state of Simpsons Tavern this morning. The Landlord, developers and Hartnell Taylor Cook should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this historic building (grade II listed by Historic England no less) to fall in disrepair.

Only when Thames Water has bankrupted itself and half of London are barfing, will the tax payer be required to step in and save it. It should be nationalised without compensation. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The Modernist Book Fair at Vitsœ
Explore the work of independent publishers who are passionate about modernist architecture and design - a unique two-day event held at the Vitsœ shop as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2024.
21.06.24 & 22.06.24
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📰 “One story – which may be apocryphal but is wonderful – is that the tessellating triangular glazing was an intentional nod to the leaded windows of City churches”

C20 speaks to Helen Barrett for the The Telegraph on the Gherkin at 25, and why it remains arguably the most

How did Cilla get on when Silly Boy didn’t trouble the charts? #totp

Nine year old me, taping What a Waste off the radio and learning to recite it all. Can still recite it. #totp

It’s no Paranoid, is it? #totp

She’s off now to scrub the sink #totp

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*Someone* I know was at a party in 1988 when Don’t Go came on. She was rushing so quickly to leave, she fell down a flight of steps. #totp

“You weren’t supposed to say anything about Ireland in the 1980s. Nobody wanted to hear it”. Fascinating interview with Kevin Rowland by Helen Barrett.
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The most streamed #Beatles songs on Spotify.