I don’t even know how to articulate how earnestly in the bottom of my soul I want this man to take his cousin’s place. His politics are all over the shop, and he’s got plenty of inexplicable bigotries, but Keir Starmer has never said one thing even half as interesting as this.

I honestly think that Keir Starmer’s cousin is one of the most interesting people I have ever come across in my life, just completely random number generated opinions. He’s Peter Hitchens with cannabis-induced psychosis.

Papua New Guinea's prime minister has accused Joe Biden of insulting his country after the US president implied his uncle had been eaten by cannibals on the island in the 1940s trib.al/TX77hL6

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#AsAnAuthor This evening, I shall sup on loganberries with just a sprinkling of sugar, accompanied by a glass of chilled Sancerre, while I watch Felka, my assistant, Marie Kondo my pants.

'Sorrow comes in so many ways. Two years ago I had no notion of that -- I mean of the unexpected way in which trouble comes, and ties our hands, and makes us silent when we long to speak.' -- George Eliot, Middlemarch

Coppery void protected by CCTV, Aldgate East

About the East End, in the East End - I'll be talking about Winston Churchill, Peter the Painter and the 1911 Siege of Sidney St at the wonderful The Wanstead Tap on Thursday. Do get a ticket + come along! eventbrite.co.uk/e/andrew-white…

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë, born # OnThisDay in 1816, was a writer whose novels challenged Victorian norms on love and desire.

⭐ You can see this portrait in Room 21 on Floor 2 ⭐

Invitations have now been sent out by email for the next Our Society dinner (paper invitations will follow for those members who prefer them). Any prospective members who would like to join us may apply by direct message to this account.

Giacomo Balla, “Street Light” (1910)

The Hole in the Wall ’pub' on the westbound platform of Sloane Square station with its ‘buffet cat’ called Kim. It was open to passengers but also the general public if they purchased a platform ticket. It closed in 1985. Photo John F. Stephenson, 1938.

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Gare Saint-Lazare vue du pont de l'Europe
1932. Paris

Find myself astonished, yet again, by the fact that John Dickens ended up in debtor's gaol in 1824, when he had a £350 salary, which was very very decent for a middle-class family of the time. For example, his rent was, I think, <£25 p.a. What *was* he spending it on?

Dithering policemen here seem to have suddenly lost their enthusiasm for arresting a small but alarmingly capable suffragette (1910) artinsociety.com/from-the-rokeb…

Mike Always wanted to say this to someone...

#OTD Postwar Housing In Poplar
A slum clearance operation in Poplar, East London, 19th April 1951. The workers are standing on the ruins of Trinity Church, largely destroyed in the Blitz.

London: Clearance of debris between Gresham Street and St. Paul's by Denis Flanders. 1941 for the War Artists Advisory Committee, from my post exploring their work at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas/l…