Extremely funny to go "I can't believe the Poles didn't insitute reforms that would have upset Moscow" with a header image of What Happens When You Upset Moscow
In October 1956, a protest movement in Poland brought a reform-minded communist leadership to power.
Unlike Hungary, Poland managed to avoid Soviet intervention, but the opportunity to democratize its political and economic structures was missed.
Breaking news: The US and Russia are discussing a potential return by American companies to the Russian oil market as part of wider talks to end Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine ft.trib.al/SjApBew
Top states to watch for Republican lame-duck gerrymanders:
Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida.
NC’s GOP already adopted a resolution to enable passing new lame-duck power grabs and gerrymanders
But if Dems break the Texas GOP trifecta, they could block lame duck power grabs by denying a quorum
"Sadly, it’s distracting, and it’s going to distract for a long period of time"
For The House mag, @zoecrowther.bsky.social & @matildamartin.bsky.social look at the "split and a significant rift" caused by the Greens' Zionism motion and what different parts of the party believe should happen next
Copenhagen nerds - I'm gonna be in your city next year - does anyone want to hear me give a paper? I got a little number using Marina Vishmidt's notion of 'infrastructure' alongside Samuel Delany's writing and his infrastructures of waste and desire. interested?
I wonder if there's a case for government acting as buyer of last resort, promising to absorb any new homes the market can't to create stability of demand?
This is what left the visible physical world at about 3pm yesterday. The two concrete spiral staircases were my favourite bit. Going to do a run of C-Type prints of this if anyone is interested. Not my best in terms of quality, but it’s does that thing it needs to do.
The reason it’s not up to my usual standard are several. It was midnight, I was trespassing, I had been in the pub for ‘a while’ beforehand. I was out of puff because I am portly and I had to climb over barriers. Shortly afterwards security told me to go away, which was funny.
Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory.
Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry.
Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
UK offering Freedom of Movement would be the game changer for conversations with the EU, one of the trio of people, pounds and positivity I identified earlier this year as crucial to any significant move to removing barriers.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Found at auction, it turns out you can actually buy an abstract noun. For "irony" may I suggest the Hermès Sac à Malice bicentenary french revolution edition?
Busy all the morning about Mr. Gauden’s account, and at noon to dinner with him at the Dolphin, where mighty merry by pleasant stories of Mr. Coventry’s and Sir J. Minnes’s, which I have put down some of in my book of tales.
Wondering how much people would hate me for a column about the terrible woes of Gen X homeowners who aspire to Boomer levels of housing but can't quite afford the handymen. Probably quite a lot?
@rhymerrigby.bsky.social the biggest crime for the lewi dev cancelation is that you are denied the opportunity for some grainy B&W pics of Shoezone getting chomped by the big chomping machine
A few more from the demolition of Anglia Square from the day before yesterday. Two wings left now. It’s a very strange and quite a sad sight for anyone who lives in this area and even vaguely understands the community.
A few more from the demolition of Anglia Square from the day before yesterday. Two wings left now. It’s a very strange and quite a sad sight for anyone who lives in this area and even vaguely understands the community.
Goldsmiths University has scrapped plans to move 600 fine art and design students to Catford – only nine months after a deal was announced with Lewisham Council.
The Green-led council said it was “surprised and frustrated".
greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/10/24/g...
So the new Reform newspaper - The Reformer - is under the "Editorial Leadership" of Mick Hume - former leading light in the Revolutionary Communist Party, Editor of Living Marxism until it folded after that ITV libel case.
As I've said many times ... Farage’s various parties always attract the RCP
I've written to the Mayor of Lewisham after Landsec deprioritised the Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment.
The scheme wasn't perfect, but losing a once-in-a-generation £1.5bn investment in our town centre raises serious questions.
We need to know what happens now.
I've written to the Mayor of Lewisham after Landsec deprioritised the Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment.
The scheme wasn't perfect, but losing a once-in-a-generation £1.5bn investment in our town centre raises serious questions.
We need to know what happens now.
He tells me that there is no doubt but that all my slyme do come away in my water, and therefore no fear of the stone; but that my water being so slymy is a good sign.
"Acton's campaign provided the media with documents corroborating the account, set out in public records, showing her stepfather was charged with raping her, while her younger brother recorded a video supporting his sister, accusing Ramaswamy’s campaign of sinking to “a despicable low”."