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Daffodil disco, Regent’s Park today.
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Daffodil disco, Regent’s Park today.
This happens to me pretty much every day. Although the majority of culprits are men, younger women do it too. My sense is it’s a London thing. People are stretched so thin with exorbitant rents, work stress, rammed rush hours. I don’t experience it anywhere else. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson
Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:28 AM
This happens to me pretty much every day. Although the majority of culprits are men, younger women do it too. My sense is it’s a London thing. People are stretched so thin with exorbitant rents, work stress, rammed rush hours. I don’t experience it anywhere else. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Daffodil disco, Regent’s Park today.
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Daffodil disco, Regent’s Park today.
And lo, it raineth again…
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
And lo, it raineth again…
Oh, I wish it would rain. Said absolutely no one in the U.K.
February 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Oh, I wish it would rain. Said absolutely no one in the U.K.
Cracking Tracey Emin piece by Charlotte Higgins ahead of Tate show. In 1995, I interviewed her at the wee gallery she ran in Waterloo. I fell in love with an ink drawing of the Margate big wheel. She offered it to me for £800. Sadly, I didn’t have the money. Sigh. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Cracking Tracey Emin piece by Charlotte Higgins ahead of Tate show. In 1995, I interviewed her at the wee gallery she ran in Waterloo. I fell in love with an ink drawing of the Margate big wheel. She offered it to me for £800. Sadly, I didn’t have the money. Sigh. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
And the prize for reductive and irrelevant headline of the week goes to… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gwen John: The 'reclusive spinster' artist who shunned conformity
On her 150th birthday, a new exhibition reveals the full power of the once-overshadowed painter.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
And the prize for reductive and irrelevant headline of the week goes to… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OK, nothing else for it, I’m having cake.
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
OK, nothing else for it, I’m having cake.
Apparently the U.K. has seen the longest spell of rainy days since 1908. Good for photos though.
February 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Apparently the U.K. has seen the longest spell of rainy days since 1908. Good for photos though.
How is everyone on this 97th day of Janebruary?
February 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
How is everyone on this 97th day of Janebruary?
Oh, and not forgetting the books section. No point in having actual book reviews when you own Earth’s largest bookstore is there?
February 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Oh, and not forgetting the books section. No point in having actual book reviews when you own Earth’s largest bookstore is there?
Sooo, let’s axe the entire sports desk, and all of the Middle East correspondents because who the hell needs any of those right now. No money to pay for journalists but somehow found $75 million to fund Melania the zero-starred movie?
February 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Sooo, let’s axe the entire sports desk, and all of the Middle East correspondents because who the hell needs any of those right now. No money to pay for journalists but somehow found $75 million to fund Melania the zero-starred movie?
Shame on The Washington Post. Anyone would think the paper was owned by a… oh wait. Hopefully another paper will snap up brilliant Ukraine correspondent, Lizzie Johnson, immediately.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Shame on The Washington Post. Anyone would think the paper was owned by a… oh wait. Hopefully another paper will snap up brilliant Ukraine correspondent, Lizzie Johnson, immediately.
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
If you’re a photography fan and in London any time soon, there are two brilliant free exhibitions on at Gagosian galleries. Nan Goldin’s era-defining photobook in its entirety, and also Avedon’s incredible portrait series Facing West. gagosian.com/exhibitions/...
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
If you’re a photography fan and in London any time soon, there are two brilliant free exhibitions on at Gagosian galleries. Nan Goldin’s era-defining photobook in its entirety, and also Avedon’s incredible portrait series Facing West. gagosian.com/exhibitions/...
January 28, 2026 at 5:22 PM
This prompted me to check demand for Melania: the Movie at my local London cinema for Saturday. I don’t know what’s funnier - that not a single ticket had been sold or the tiny space it’s being screened in.
January 28, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This prompted me to check demand for Melania: the Movie at my local London cinema for Saturday. I don’t know what’s funnier - that not a single ticket had been sold or the tiny space it’s being screened in.
For anyone questioning what Nigella knows about baking, I refer you to her recipe for gingerbread with lemon icing. Genius www.nigella.com/recipes/fres...
Fresh Gingerbread With Lemon Icing
I’ve been making this gingerbread since the turn of the century — it was one of my go-to recipes for the countless bake sales at my children’s schools when they were little — and my love for it never ...
www.nigella.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
For anyone questioning what Nigella knows about baking, I refer you to her recipe for gingerbread with lemon icing. Genius www.nigella.com/recipes/fres...
January 26, 2026 at 8:04 PM
A wee gem for today #BurnsNight youtu.be/3ouZuzOpCF8
Alasdair Roberts - Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon
YouTube video by Demighoul
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January 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM
A wee gem for today #BurnsNight youtu.be/3ouZuzOpCF8
For the love of all the gods, do NOT upgrade your phone to iOS 26.2
January 22, 2026 at 9:08 AM
For the love of all the gods, do NOT upgrade your phone to iOS 26.2
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and... just in time before mailorder signs off - a gorgeous reissue.
Love and Devotion brings together two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s finest recordings, the first time they have been available on vinyl in 40 yrs. A true defining figure in qawwali music.
monorailmusic.com/product/love...
Love and Devotion brings together two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s finest recordings, the first time they have been available on vinyl in 40 yrs. A true defining figure in qawwali music.
monorailmusic.com/product/love...
January 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM
and... just in time before mailorder signs off - a gorgeous reissue.
Love and Devotion brings together two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s finest recordings, the first time they have been available on vinyl in 40 yrs. A true defining figure in qawwali music.
monorailmusic.com/product/love...
Love and Devotion brings together two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s finest recordings, the first time they have been available on vinyl in 40 yrs. A true defining figure in qawwali music.
monorailmusic.com/product/love...
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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More rainy night vibes in Londontown.
January 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
More rainy night vibes in Londontown.