Edwin Heathcote
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
UK and US pulp covers were sexy, sexist, sly, a little sleazy. But also cool. Hungarian pulp covers were absolutely terrifying.
Couple more unfortunates holding it all up in the heat. Budapest.
Hot for this kind of thing. Budapest. 37 degrees.
So he was 14 and had threatened to carry out a school shooting when his dad gave him an assault rifle? www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...
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One of my faves in Budapest. Rózsavölgyi ház. Béla Lajta. 1910-11. Contemporary of Adolf Loos. Look at that elevation. Modernism. But nicer.
We have all spent years researching what it means to be alive.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoI’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger
Delighted to dig into some of the works that made Betye Saar such a special artist for the NYT — with gift link! (I actually remembered.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...
7 of Betye Saar’s Most Important Works (Gift Article)
The artist, who died just short of her 100th birthday, subverted racist tropes by turning mammy dolls into warriors and presenting the breadth of the Black experience.
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Budapest modernist apartment blocks. Újlipótváros.
Budapest modernist apartment blocks. Újlipótváros.
Why Glasgow School of Art’s iconic Mackintosh building, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh of architects Honeyman & Keppie between 1896 and 1909, deserves to be fully restored. @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
Why the Glasgow School of Art deserves to be fully restored
Years after two devastating fires, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art nouveau masterpiece faces an uncertain future. It’s time the government stepped up
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So Let me get this right. Trump is pro-Putin but anti-Iran. Iran is anti-Israel but Putin is Pro-Israel and pro-Iran. Zelenskyy now needs to be pro-Israel to show he is anti-Iran. Putin depicts Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, as a Nazi. Meanwhile Israel is ethnically cleansing to create Lebensraum.
«In order [for a Klan member] to wear a clean sheet to a Ku Klux Klan [rally], a Black woman had to wash it» she said. Rest in Tenderness 🍂
Edwin Heathcote@edwinheathcote.bsky.social · last wk.Very sorry to hear about Betye Saar who has died four days short of her 100th birthday. Amazing artist. Saw this recently. The ironing board is printed with the famous Brookes slave ship plan, the sheet monogrammed KKK. A whole history of labour right there.
Very sorry to hear about Betye Saar who has died four days short of her 100th birthday. Amazing artist. Saw this recently. The ironing board is printed with the famous Brookes slave ship plan, the sheet monogrammed KKK. A whole history of labour right there.
Listening to R4 and the endless interviews with Brits escaping their holiday homes and I suddenly thought, are there any French people at all who have holiday homes in the UK? Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a single one.
Anyway don’t worry you’ll be protected from AI generated slop as Amazon limits the number of titles authors can create to 10 BOOKS PER FORMAT PER WEEK
I can’t stand the word ‘poo’. Fine if you’re talking to a 2 year old but not among adults.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.TV tonight: the amazing story of the first animal to poo
It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
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Bit late getting round to The Odyssey but did Christopher Nolan try to make it into a Nam movie at the end there?
Always fascinated by how much hair British PMs have to have. Bald guys don’t get a look in. Seems an uncommented-on bias. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The UK’s first TikTok PM? Andy Burnham channels Zohran Mamdani as he hits social media
From Mo Farah to Bus Aunty, new prime minister makes good on promise to ‘do things differently’ when it comes to communication
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Kinda funny that Christopher Nolan, who always reminds me of Tim Nice But Dim, is now the right’s image of a woke filmmaker. He’s hardly Ken Loach, is he?
Unsurprising news of the day. Arms company boss says Britain complacent about threat of war and needs to buy more arms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK complacent about war threat, warns BAE Systems' boss
The threat of attack has never been higher, the boss of Europe's biggest defence contractor has warned. Dr Charles Woodburn
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This is what happens when editorial standards drop into the toilet.
Pete Apps@peteapps.bsky.social · 2w agoIn November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just to take a break from being cynical, I think Burnham’s addressing of business rates for pubs and venues is excellent. Even if probably too little.