Robert Smithson's secrets of the ambulatories....
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Robert Smithson's secrets of the ambulatories....
This was my absolute favourite from the last issue. I walk the dog sometimes across the river Wharfe from Heselden's estate near to Boston Spa. I had heard of his unfortunate demise, but had no idea of his amazing life. What a mensch.
Fascinating insights to the ideological and biographical rumblings in the background of Anthropic/Hegseth fight from @maxread.info open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...
pipeline from @thefence.bsky.social to guardian going strong
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
NOTE THIS novel has twenty-seven sections, temporarily held together by a removable wrapper. Apart from the first and last sections (which are marked as such) the other twenty-five sections are intended to be read in random order. If readers prefer not to accept the random order in which they receive the novel, then they may re-arrange the sections into any other random order before reading.
Quite a find in my local library
Overnight Eurostar to Bourg st Maurice. The door was next my head and incessantly swooshed and stchtumpfed open and shut; a cadre of “lads” were pulling an all-nighter; and a harassed nanny was trying to console a teething baby while the parents slept peacefully in a different carriage. zero zeds.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood citing the work of dystopian cyberpunk author William Gibson to justify more facial recognition vans
looks ace
New episode of Offal. Support underground cloning and pirate AI slop. Macca and Linda, Kenneth Williams reads Richard Milward, Antichrist clone circle jerk plus Manning, Rickman, Burton. All the greats. Keep it locked. steady.page/en/offal/pos...
Train journey to town with the beloved to go see The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and onto drinks party with auld pals means 2 hours with @thefence.bsky.social and the joy of a @williamasclarke.bsky.social quiz
There is not one, but TWO nominations for The Fence in the @financialtimes.com's list of articles of the year!
www.ft.com/content/72d0...
The Fence is extraordinary - funny, brilliant, couldn't be dull if it tried, and read by tastemakers and senior pols alike. I've been very lucky to have pieces in its pages. A sub makes a great xmas present, and this draw has banging prizes.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
I mean, isn't this what informs all the attention algorithms and creates people like those kiwi dickheads who did "boomer memes" for the Leave campaign? And obviously a century more sophistigated than Gustav le Bon, but isn't it broadly the same ideas weaponised for platform capitalism and nudgers?
Following a long email discussion with a devotee of popular behavioural science, who invokes left- and right-brain, and talks of cut-through, opposing emotions to facts, I'm left wondering: has this branch of psychology essentially wound back the Enlightenment? Paging @thatneilmartin.bsky.social
“This will not be business as usual, but rather business unusual, business unconventional,” said the BVI premier at the start of his tenure. But no one knew quite how unusual it would turn out to be.
Today's Guardian long read by @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Stand by for a dose of Mitford Mania, as Rory Macneish meets Ben Treuhaft, the son of Decca, a piano tuner living between Edinburgh and the West Midlands. But does he share his mother's politics?
www.the-fence.com/sent-to-cove...
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"
from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me
further to the quoted section below from one former pupil: The Guardian has acquired a copy of the Dulwich College roll in 1980. It shows (this collage is just an excerpt) how there were 13 pupils that year with the surname Patel, and 12 with the surname Smith.
Tomorrow’s front page:
The God's Fox exhibition runs until January. Trip to Brum?
Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.
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Even if you interpret "the one person who said I directly abused him" the other way - the Guardian has spoken to seven people who say they recall the targeted abuse of Peter Ettedgui.
e.g. Stefan Benarroch: “He was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare,”
Worth adding this is not an accurate representation by Farage of our reporting to date.
Y'day's story: Cyrus Oshidar, described as “rubbish” the claim that the Reform leader did not act with intent to hurt. "Being called a Paki isn’t hurtful?" Oshidar asked.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As Peter reports, that’s absolutely not the case. This minority ethnic pupil was 8 years younger than Farage when he says he was targeted for abuse.
NEW: Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.
Andy was interviewed on the world at one yesterday. He’s a compelling witness. Give a listen and see who you believe.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
