So much going on here!
Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes!
Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes!
September 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So much going on here!
Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes!
Skyscrapers and steam locos—Platelayers in moleskin jackets next to live and "live" lines—Light signals and 80-year old head codes!
Cruising the zero-waste shop (all the customers are gay boys)
June 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Cruising the zero-waste shop (all the customers are gay boys)
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Boomers REACT to the Transport select committee !!
May 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Boomers REACT to the Transport select committee !!
“there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population. … twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers, … Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jack Shenker · Renters v. Rentiers
Housing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population. … twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers, … Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
My three moods: old, mild and bitter.
April 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My three moods: old, mild and bitter.
Watching "The Graduate" (1968) for the men's wear
April 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Watching "The Graduate" (1968) for the men's wear
Reposted by Fergus
It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 AM
It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989
The Irish Reunification of 2024?
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Irish Reunification of 2024?
Continuing the rudiments of my legal education.
January 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Continuing the rudiments of my legal education.
More deranged FT comments
January 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
More deranged FT comments
Do the police have a special duty to act where there is a known danger? The Supreme Court says no.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Do the police have a special duty to act where there is a known danger? The Supreme Court says no.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...
I should start a thread of deranged FT comments
June 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM
I should start a thread of deranged FT comments
Reposted by Fergus
New favourite bot
gandy strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1906
February 8, 2024 at 12:10 PM
New favourite bot
It's an exciting time for English morphology too!
January 31, 2024 at 10:34 AM
It's an exciting time for English morphology too!
"Let those who noticed faults in the first edition know that they alone are answerable if those faults are repeated in the second."
January 15, 2024 at 10:35 AM
"Let those who noticed faults in the first edition know that they alone are answerable if those faults are repeated in the second."
My 2023 reading wrap up courtesy of StoryGraph
January 4, 2024 at 9:18 PM
My 2023 reading wrap up courtesy of StoryGraph
“What little predictions can we make about a boy at ease with opera stars and celestial bodies?”
— Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat”
— Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat”
January 2, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“What little predictions can we make about a boy at ease with opera stars and celestial bodies?”
— Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat”
— Wayne Koestenbaum “The Queen’s Throat”
January 2, 2024 at 12:34 PM