Oh this is an enjoyable read! Andrew o'Hagan on top form.
11.03.2026 18:31
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Oh this is an enjoyable read! Andrew o'Hagan on top form.
Exactly.
Characteristically detailed and humanising report on what's happening to people in Beirut on C4 News this eve. 'Displacement' tends to sound benign but it is brutal and devastating. Heart-breaking.
"Until Glasgow treats its built fabric as part of its social fabric, these crises will keep happening".
What the Central station fire tells us about how the city manages its built heritage by myself and @severincarrell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Thinking about this film a lot at the moment - for obvious reasons. youtube.com/watch?v=y5km...
We've watched this unfold tonight in disbelief at how it has spread. Amazingly no casualties but what a loss of buildings. Just hope it doesn't spread to the station now.
Totally sickening.
Really shocking.
What a loss
Read it and weep.
The loss of cultural grants to a whole raft of independent organisations in the city c. 5 years ago was the canary in the coal mine. It was not just about the loss of funding - also and almost more
Importantly it signalled a loss of connection between the City and cultural organisations.
CCA and T103 are both heritage buildings that benefitted from significant lottery funding back when that was a thing. Remember capital projects? 😫
CCA and T103 are both heritage buildings that benefited from significant lottery funding when that was a thing - remember capital projects? Sorry state of affairs
Sorry state of affairs. You will remember c. 5 years ago when a whole raft of independent cultural organisations lost city council grant support - that was the canary in the coal mine. The loss of funding also meant a loss of connection between the City and its cultural sector.
Totally agree.
Lovely to read this @sorchadallas.bsky.social
Amazing what a couple of days of sunlight and clear skies can do.
Love that place.
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, was honoured to write the @theguardian.com obituary for sculptor and educator David Harding. As town artist in Glenrothes he embedded sculpture in everyday spaces, shaping a vision of public art that lives with the weather and the street.
Glasgow posters aboot toon for the film. Try and see it because it’s dead good.
It really shouldn't
Within hours of Oman's Foreign Minister saying "Iran agreed to zero enriched uranium stockpiling", Israel immediately bombs Tehran & the US promptly joins
This can only mean it was NEVER about nuclear weapons & Trump is either compromised by Netanyahu or is using war to shape the midterm elections
1.9% of votes in that by-election.
So true. And esp. for our generation who grew up with so much American art / music / films / literature ...
And housing benefit.
5 authors I've read at least 5 books by:
Ali Smith
Jeanette Winterson
Zadie Smith
Ian McEwan
Virginia Woolf
Spoken like a man who would use you as a battery if he could
(Pic is from GI opening in 2010 - posted recently to cheer Sam Ainsley, but such a characteristic shot of David)
RIP , the great David Harding. Always a cheering force, a welcome sight at any event and life-long advocate of singing - not just for the joy, but as a way of taking (asserting) place in society. So glad to have known him. ❤️
Such a great view.