Architectural prizes shouldn't be awarded till 10 years after buildings open - then ask folk who use, maintain & operate it how successful it is. I work in a shiny building that won prizes 10 yrs ago & it's a maintenance nightmare with no storage that costs fortune to run
This 'One Pair Of Eyes' on BBC Four featuring Marty Feldman is STUNNING even if you're not that familiar with Feldman's work. Plenty of location shots with historical interest especially as it's from 1969.
Welcome to Bluesky. Please remember these four things:
1.) DuJour means friendship
2.) DuJour means family
3.) DuJour means seat belts
4.) DuJour means crash positions
Welcome to Bluesky. You're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life.
One: don't do that.
And two: You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.
Considering it, my favourite line of the night was probably @cooraysmith.bsky.social describing Penny Mordaunt as looking like “Catherine Deneuve, if she worked in a big M&S.”
People complained that Chengdu zoo was letting their clouded leopard get fat, their expert explained "This cat is like thirty years old, that's twice as old clouded leopards GET, and he's just had major surgery. Making him lose weight would do WAY more harm, just let him have this."
I think misplaced cynicism about election promises is causing a lot of people to work too hard on “why did the Tories lose so badly?” It’s not that deep: most parties keep at least 80 per cent of their pledges. This one…really the only one is that they didn’t raise VAT. How else was it gonna end?
The clear lesson Farage needs to learn from the Lib Dems is that you get more seats by doing stunts. But because his voters are rock hard, unlike those woke yoghurt drinkers, the stunts he does should all be exceptionally dangerous
As the Forest of Dean goes Labour, I remember a friend there phoning & asking me to post him that day’s Observer because of an interview in it. I asked why he couldn’t just buy it and he said “It’s the Forest, mate. We only have the Daily Mail and Badger Gasser’s Weekly”.
1999 this was.
- Labour's vote spread was way more efficient than under Corbyn. Brilliant groundgame
- Tory vote was cannibilized by Reform
- soft tories stayed at home, unlike with Corbyn
- Labour will need to win back the votes lost due to terrible trans and gaza policies
ALL THESE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE
The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats.
Tired: The Blue Wall
Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE
