If Fred had played the same number of games as Anderson he would have taken 861 wickets. Let that sink in.

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Sheffield's interwar council housing. The council built 28,000 council homes between the wars and was the first major city, in 1926, to come under Labour control: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/sheffields-i…

It’s Battle of Britain Day, when the world pauses to remember the huge debt it owes to the Hawker Hurricane. Repeat please.

Pics from a hugely successful First-ever Shanghai Highland Games. On a personal note, helping organize it was a rehabilitation of my life here after the trauma and frustration of the Shanghai lockdown. Time only goes in one direction, and that's forward. m.alltuu.com/album/22121365…

Ahead of Chequers, a reminder of when Boris Yeltsin crashed the local pub in 1994:

The end of an era. The Hing Lung opened on Sharrow Vale Road in 1974, now there's a sign saying they have closed indefinitely. #Sheffield

Very sad to hear the news about my friend Dickie...

Karl Starmer says he’s currently on the biggest ever trade mission to India. But that’s not strictly accurate is it. IYKYK

Should be one of Europe’s most famous buildings. That it is not says much about our cultural and economic geography in the UK.

An amazing show at Durham Cathedral tonight: treasures from its library lighting up its walls

It's not nowdays we have dodgy presidents ... US Vice President Richard Nixon holding cricket bat at Melbourne Cricket Ground during visit leading up to the 1956 Olympics

In the 1950s, an average working class man could buy this house, support motel guests and a stay-at-home mom.

The final word.

Interview with a 16-year-old bomber gunner. He carried out 22 combat missions before the army found out his real age and was honourably discharged.

Recently discovered rare footage of Willie Nelson and Keith Richards helping build the pyramids in Egypt.

Misty cathedral views 📷 @ kiwigretchen

“The Vanishing of Imran Khan” — a must-read essay in the long form by journalist Osman Samiuddin for the Pulitzer Center: pulitzercenter.org/stories/commen… “What happens when a state erases its most famous public figure?  “This is what Pakistan has been trying to do with the

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, two former ‘Wrecking Crew’ legends, reminiscing about past sessions, before gliding effortlessly into an exquisite You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling. In Session. 1983.