Lovely. Here is a guide to his extraordinary work on the Portal of Paradise at St John the Divine, Manhattan. citybeautifulblog.com/2023/10/23/por…

This this this…so totally made my day. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Scenes of Father Basil Lee Jellicoe, clergyman of the Church of England, at the Anchor pub, Somers Town (now Chalton St, St Pancras, NW) explaining why people gather in a pub. Whitbread’s brewery had given Jellicoe the control of

Howard Anglin That may be the first time a CT-114 Tutor has been referred to as a "devastating machine of warfare".

An Italian Serie D Football Team, Boreale Calcio, has mad a uniform themed on the Roman Empire and Constantine the Great

'I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work ...'

Their home kit is a 16th century painting of the Battle of Milvian Bridge (also featuring Constantine).

Quite a few provinces have their own representation abroad. Though most have given up their lovely old buildings.

Mentally strikes: Anna Karenina War and Peace Pride and Prejudice The Odyssey The Iliad Madame Bovary The Age of Innocence The Portrait of a Lady Hamlet King Lear Julius Caesar The Henriad In Search of Lost Time The Leopard Brideshead Revisited off the reading list.

My favourite is a conversation I overhead at Kim’s video store, which was staffed by NYU film students. Client: Do you have Die Hard II? Clerk: The films are arranged by director. Client: Who directed Die Hard II? Clerk: Does it matter?

Howard Anglin Bring it back! andrewcusack.com/2019/british-c… For what it’s worth, pre 1782 many of the American colonies had Agents — effectively domestic ambassadors — representing them in London. Edmund Burke was Agent-General for the Province of New-York.

Put him on the $20.

I described the education that the men who ran the moon landing program would have received at school, not how NASA operated. A little less Ted talking and a little more reading comprehension (which - bonus - doesn't require expensive technology) is in order.

“My view is that conservatism has nothing intrinsically to do with big business but with moral and political values. And if business is antipathetic to those values, you have to fight it, with all the methods that are available.” Sir Roger Scruton

.Howard Anglin: Canada’s government is unaccountable and broken. But is it beyond repair? thehub.ca/2024/09/06/how…

The sad thing about chatgpt killing essays is that essay writing is a very effective way to learn. I remember the main ideas of every research essay I wrote in undergrad but only a fraction of what I was tested on.

Bloat in bureaucracy is not just a waste of money, it makes it all but impossible to hold the system to account for failure. The next government needs to smash the unaccountability machine and restore proper incentives for good government. My latest: