Becoming Prime Minister is a huge personal moment, says BBC TV news.
Fatema Ahmed
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Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
We are all being punished for yesterday being thrilling when it shouldn’t have been.
World finally ready for Sky booking The Shamen to perform Ebenezer Goode at half-time at Highbury.
Don’t be responsible for making Patrick Vieira sound this disappointed (and rightly so).
Me on "Backrooms" and "Exit 8" (and, tangentially, on "The Way Inn"): apollo-magazine.com/backrooms-fi...
Backrooms: a haunted house movie for the modern age
Kane Parsons’s debut horror film takes an internet meme about unsettling, utterly mundane spaces and gives it a gothic twist, writes Will Wiles
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It's the Feast of the Ascension! This time last year, I wrote about the flagrant silliness of paintings of disappearing feet in paintings for @apollo-magazine.com, and why their silliness (believe this non-sense if you can!) is the point. apollo-magazine.com/ascension-fe...
Labour-run Barnet has voted for exquisite agony: no overall control with LAB 31; CON 31; GREEN 1. Almost proud. lbbcommunicationsexternal.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gkrhud...
Barnet First - Local election results special
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‘I was enjoying my precarious freedom by studying the history of art – what was there better to do while this respite lasted?’ (Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary)
Rewatching The Bureau and the work canteen is absolutely the most appealing element of being a French spy.
Ministers being sent out on the media round for matters Mandelsonian. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YW...
Beyond the Fringe - from the 'Aftermyth of War' sketch.
YouTube video by frogandpeach1
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‘In lieu of flowers, the family and Zipporah Films kindly request that you support your local PBS affiliate or independent bookstore in Frederick Wiseman’s memory’ zipporahfilms.com
ZipporahFilms | Discover Frederick Wiseman Documentaries
Explore award-winning documentaries by Frederick Wiseman, showcasing the intricate tapestry of American institutions and social dynamics.
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We don’t need to grant online attention to every egregiously racist utterance in 2026
Would absolutely listen to test match commentary by the groundsmen.
‘Palestine 36’ has an astonishingly graceful disclaimer at the end of the credits. Also, good to see Orde Wingate played as a psychopath, though the long hair was unnecessary.
The people with the wheelie suitcases have left. London is mine.
The tone of The Odyssey trailer suggests that Matt Damon won’t be spending much time chez Calypso or with the Phaeacians. But that’s okay; I felt very relaxed about Briseis (Rose Byrne) killing Agamemnon during the sack of Troy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...
The Odyssey | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them” @hekale.bsky.social on Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec 🎂🧵 💙📚 1/8 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
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This is very good, via @marta-zboralska.bsky.social (and I say that as the daughter of someone who was learning the King’s English in the 1930s.) open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically". apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...
Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged
The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools
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The number of children homeless in England is the highest since records began. england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
Number of children homeless in England the highest since records began - Shelter England
Number of children homeless in England the highest since records began
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This is really important on housing in London (and the FT has also reported on the government thinking about letting developers off the 35% affordable housing requirement) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Where do objects come from? No, where do they *really* come from? I spoke to Hew Locke for the October issue of @apollo-magazine.com about small boats, decorating statues and why Empire needs new clothes. apollo-magazine.com/hew-locke-pa...
Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Fatema Ahmed about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
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In which Isaac Chotiner interviews a bowl of jelly and the bowl of jelly has a small realisation at the end. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
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