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Yorkshire list for RIBA awards announced. Looking forward to three days judging.

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Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’

'Writing Is a Dog's Life' and Other Thoughts open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Milan soon. Tips? Treats?

September 5. How to make a film and leave it resonating. Bullseye.

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A brilliant event last night with @c20society.bsky.social to launch our 70th anniversary edition of Outrage by Ian Nairn, with @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social, @gmdarksky.bsky.social and Travis Elborough (also featuring @gardnergareth.bsky.social). Always lovely to see a packed room!

The humanities risk becoming “ornaments” on science-focused university course portfolios as they take a “disproportionate” hit from the UK sector funding crisis, public historian @davidolusoga.bsky.social has warned. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports #highered #EduSky

Great lecture from David Olusoga tonight, inaugural National Humanities Lecture. #SchoolofAdvancedStudies. Catch it on YouTube.

John Soane (here at Dulwich). Melvyn Bragg’s In our Time this week

Looking forward to hearing this week’s In our Time. John Soane. It felt like a good conversation.

Glorious Looks Delicious exhibition at #JapanHouse

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Wish we could have had more than just this at #RA.

What winding path led this swish Brazilian ‘modernist’ painting, on show at #RA, to the art gallery in Swindon?

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

Excellent #BBCWorld service in these days of heavy-duty news.

Lines from #GeorgeEliot in #Middlemarch jump out at every turn. ‘Mr Vincy …. had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister,’

Glitter in Fitzrovia. It helps.

Two grand Italians, Renato Guttoso and Leonardo Sciascia photographed by Letizia Battaglia. Photographers Gallery. Her Palermo stops you dead.

Just because …

When you're the younger son of the duke, your future is pretty much cut out for you. But he laid down his red hat in 1642 to marry his niece, Ludovica di Savoia, for reasons of intra-dynastic politics. Probably no one saw that coming when this portrait was painted.

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