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We need planning reform to drop the requirement that every 5000 acre estate has to include affordable country houses for low-paid people who only won 12 or 15 million quid on the Lottery.

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Sleaford Mods

GEVAARLIJKE MAN (dangerous man) Plenty dangerous men running the show of destruction right now. Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Bob Fosko issued this warning in 2003. Out now, first ever digital EP release on Bandcamp exclusively: amsterdamklezmerband.bandcamp.com

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The Envelope Theorem is about stationery points.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? ceteris paribus

Repeat tonight of this, on Bletchley Park geniuses Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers. Tutte was later awarded a Fellowship of @royalsociety.org. The programme stressed the rigorous and demanding selection process/criteria, and the illustrious roll of past recipients. Correct when first broadcast in 2011.

Giacometti exhibition, Barbican Centre (London)

Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...

MAGA guys will never learn.

can’t quite believe I’m actually seeing this

Fifty years ago today saw Australia meet West Indies at The Oval in the last round of Group matches at the inaugural World Cup. Those of us of a certain age will remember Alvin Kallicharran's onslaught on Dennis Lillee (Patrick Eagar)

Yes to this by Thomas Aubrey on.ft.com/4jSU1sK Lessons from the Victorians for funding big projects

Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...

The Pentagon Pizza Report never fails

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Head of a man wearing a hat, 1510-1515, Lucas Cranach the Elder (British Museum)

Here's a selection of Anglo Saxon buildings for your delectation and delight: The remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. Worth cracking the photo open to see. #thread #throwbackthursday

A small simple building of national significance. Farfield Friends Meeting House in West Yorkshire is one of the four places of worship that we recently acquired from the Historic Chapels Trust.

@gideonrachman.bsky.social shrewd on why Trump will beat Musk. But he’s wrong that this is a ‘surprise’ for Marxists. He should read Lenin and Gramsci. As Adam Tooze acknowledges, they are very relevant to understanding our era.

A group of mill girls stop to watch workmen asphalting in Chorley Old Road, Bolton, 1956 (Bolton News).

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#dobranotch #manuchao

This whole thread is excellent. As Patton said “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity”

It’s a thought

Thelonious Monk ~ Monk's Mood, New York, NY, ca. 1956-1957