Yes, I am colouring in a drawing of Peckham leisure centre

Some London things I enjoyed this time: Edward VII's horrible possessions, Latin Mass at Westminster Cathedral, the memorial modernism of the Guards Chapel, the Casts Gallery at the V&A.

According to my grandfather, a much loved view of Liverpool's Victoria monument.

Very fine, but disloyally still prefer Scott's Anglican one down the road.

Found England on my return an extraordinarily gentle and civilised place dotted by stern blasts against Anti-Social Behaviour.

Among the pop dross in the new museum of Liverpool, many reminders that it was once a startlingly militaristic city.

It royally sucks that the BBC will no longer let me listen to Radio Three on catch up from Vancouver.

Very strange writer

This - on Kriss - could be by him (it is amusingly credited to someone 'writing a PhD on Borges'). metropolitanreview.org/p/the-prophet-…

Delight at getting this for my kid turns to dismay at realizing they've ditched the Anthea Bell translation.

Lovely essay here newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

It’s around that time of year when another unknown John Locke manuscript will be discovered and will forever upend the world of Locke scholarship

Look out for this

When I first visited Saint-Germain-en-Laye some years ago the church was closed, so I was unable to pay my respects at the final resting place of King James II and VII. I corrected that today

Very Vancouver: American school house named after a Victorian hero