G M Thomas FRSA FRAS
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Fellow Royal Society of Arts. Fellow Royal Asiatic Society.
Possibly better headlined 'Three lame ducks continue to believe they have some influence.'
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Possibly better headlined 'Three lame ducks continue to believe they have some influence.'
I'm looking forward to both combing their outraged angriness at a logarithmic rate of increase until they implode like a supernova.
Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m www.bbc.com/news/article...
Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m www.bbc.com/news/article...
Daily Mail owner agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m
The publisher of the Daily Mail says it is in talks to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £500m.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I'm looking forward to both combing their outraged angriness at a logarithmic rate of increase until they implode like a supernova.
Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m www.bbc.com/news/article...
Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m www.bbc.com/news/article...
These are the forthcoming tour dates:
www.hiromiuehara.com/s/y01en/grou...
www.hiromiuehara.com/s/y01en/grou...
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
These are the forthcoming tour dates:
www.hiromiuehara.com/s/y01en/grou...
www.hiromiuehara.com/s/y01en/grou...
Dirty martini. London Jazz Festival. Amazing gig by Hiromi and her band playing Sonic Wonder. Asian based friends...they're now embarking on a tour in China and Japan. It's the chance of a lifetime to see mind-blowing musicianship.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Dirty martini. London Jazz Festival. Amazing gig by Hiromi and her band playing Sonic Wonder. Asian based friends...they're now embarking on a tour in China and Japan. It's the chance of a lifetime to see mind-blowing musicianship.
Took you recommendation @thatneilmartin.bsky.social and tried the Martini Bar at the Barbican. Good advice.
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Took you recommendation @thatneilmartin.bsky.social and tried the Martini Bar at the Barbican. Good advice.
This is a current phishing ploy. The email comes from a legitimate address (aol) but the reply goes to another address (hotmail), one that's been set up by the spam merchants. This is very easily missed as the understandable assumption is that it goes to the proper inbox.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is a current phishing ploy. The email comes from a legitimate address (aol) but the reply goes to another address (hotmail), one that's been set up by the spam merchants. This is very easily missed as the understandable assumption is that it goes to the proper inbox.
Not sure if the police are the sharpest tools in the shed with their wonky maths. One reason: the Japanese number is the whole population and includes children. Most foreigners living in Japan are single adults. Hence two different, incomparable sets.
The National Police Agency told a cabinet committee that the crime rate of foreigners in Japan, excluding short term visitors, is 1.72x that of Japanese residents. www.sankei.com/article/2025...
外国人の犯罪率は日本人の1.72倍 警察庁が短期滞在者除いた数字を参院内閣委で答弁
昨年の外国人の犯罪率は日本人の1.72倍だったという数字を、警察庁が20日の参院内閣委員会で明らかにした。観光などの短期滞在者を除いた検挙（摘発）人数を比較し…
www.sankei.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Not sure if the police are the sharpest tools in the shed with their wonky maths. One reason: the Japanese number is the whole population and includes children. Most foreigners living in Japan are single adults. Hence two different, incomparable sets.
Watched one of the all time great Japanese films on the big screen. The Life of Oharu 西鶴一代女, Saikaku ichidai onna tells the tragic fate of women mistreated by family, lovers, and society. As relevant today as it ever was - and not just in Japan. (Think Epstein et al.)
youtu.be/2Qxy_dUiRpU?...
youtu.be/2Qxy_dUiRpU?...
Saikaku ichidai onna (The Life of Oharu) 1952 Trailer
YouTube video by Sinemast
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November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Watched one of the all time great Japanese films on the big screen. The Life of Oharu 西鶴一代女, Saikaku ichidai onna tells the tragic fate of women mistreated by family, lovers, and society. As relevant today as it ever was - and not just in Japan. (Think Epstein et al.)
youtu.be/2Qxy_dUiRpU?...
youtu.be/2Qxy_dUiRpU?...
Breaking news. Grok and Musk are a twosome.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Breaking news. Grok and Musk are a twosome.
If you enjoy photography there's an interesting publishing house who sell these rather unusual phonebooks. (And photographers professional and amateur can submit their work.)
www.caferoyalbooks.com/story
www.caferoyalbooks.com/story
About — Café Royal Books
www.caferoyalbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you enjoy photography there's an interesting publishing house who sell these rather unusual phonebooks. (And photographers professional and amateur can submit their work.)
www.caferoyalbooks.com/story
www.caferoyalbooks.com/story
Facebook + AI demonstrate why the AI bubble will burst. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Heroines, not heroin: charity’s Facebook page returns after AI flagged it for drugs
Photography group Hundred Heroines was removed after Meta’s AI tools mistook name for class-A opioid reference
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Facebook + AI demonstrate why the AI bubble will burst. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Marugame. Seto Inland Sea. 2025.
#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Marugame. Seto Inland Sea. 2025.
#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
@bskyphotos.bsky.social
#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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Card From The Cotswolds is a short documentary dating from 1955 and filmed by Eric Owen. These are pub scenes that include a cockerel drinking beer. Gravity pumps and a barrel on the bar.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Card From The Cotswolds is a short documentary dating from 1955 and filmed by Eric Owen. These are pub scenes that include a cockerel drinking beer. Gravity pumps and a barrel on the bar.
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Back Row: Felicity Jones, John Simm, Mark Kermode, Amy Berg and Christopher Frayling. Front Row: Tamsin Greig, Hannah Onslow, Jack Howard and Caroline Goodall in seats before Mark Kermode in 3D on Monday 17 November 2025 at BFI Southbank,
#teamphoto
#mk3d with @kermodedodge at the @bfi
#teamphoto
#mk3d with @kermodedodge at the @bfi
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Back Row: Felicity Jones, John Simm, Mark Kermode, Amy Berg and Christopher Frayling. Front Row: Tamsin Greig, Hannah Onslow, Jack Howard and Caroline Goodall in seats before Mark Kermode in 3D on Monday 17 November 2025 at BFI Southbank,
#teamphoto
#mk3d with @kermodedodge at the @bfi
#teamphoto
#mk3d with @kermodedodge at the @bfi
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Shrine cat. Marugame. Japan. 2024.
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@bskyphotos.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Shrine cat. Marugame. Japan. 2024.
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@bskyphotos.bsky.social
One of the most iconic British ads of the 1990s was Tango. (Link to ad in comments.) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads
‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One of the most iconic British ads of the 1990s was Tango. (Link to ad in comments.) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Well we now know the immediate impact of the Chinese government's exhortation that its citizens refrain from travelling to Japan. The South China Morning Post reports that over the last few days there have been over 400,000 flight cancellations by Chinese tourists. (Image by Cecil Beaton.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well we now know the immediate impact of the Chinese government's exhortation that its citizens refrain from travelling to Japan. The South China Morning Post reports that over the last few days there have been over 400,000 flight cancellations by Chinese tourists. (Image by Cecil Beaton.)
Rewatched this the other night. Brilliant!
Onibaba 鬼婆. Simply one of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and guttural yells, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
Onibaba 鬼婆. Simply one of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and guttural yells, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Rewatched this the other night. Brilliant!
Onibaba 鬼婆. Simply one of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and guttural yells, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
Onibaba 鬼婆. Simply one of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and guttural yells, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
Inbound tourism represents a growing 8% of Japan's GDP. Chinese nationals currently account for 1/3rd of visitors. If their numbers fall there could be another 1% contraction on top of the 2% contraction in total GDP recently seen because of Trump's tariffs.
China travel warning for Japan sends shares in tourism and retail companies plunging
China travel warning for Japan sends shares in tourism and retail companies plunging
China warned its citizens not to travel to Japan amid an escalating row over comments made by prime minister Sanae Takaichi about Taiwan
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Inbound tourism represents a growing 8% of Japan's GDP. Chinese nationals currently account for 1/3rd of visitors. If their numbers fall there could be another 1% contraction on top of the 2% contraction in total GDP recently seen because of Trump's tariffs.
I was at the BFI a few weeks ago when Russell Tovey was interviewed - a powerful and inspiring speaker.
Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’
Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’
One of the most prolific and popular actors of his generation, he reflects on therapy, homophobia, why he suspects now is the worst time in history for trans people, and his secret life as a geek
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I was at the BFI a few weeks ago when Russell Tovey was interviewed - a powerful and inspiring speaker.
This is usually a sleeper, something that I wrote that gets little attention. Recently interest has perked up and more visitors are reading it. grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/r...
Rasputin and the extraordinary tale of an English family in Moscow
Introduction A little while ago I was involved with trying to uncover the story of a set of photographs and materials that had been collected in Russia during the 1910s. Initially their provenance …
grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is usually a sleeper, something that I wrote that gets little attention. Recently interest has perked up and more visitors are reading it. grahamthomasauthor.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/r...
Seto Ohashi Bridge. 2024. #SetoInlandSea #Setouchi #瀬戸大橋 #SetoŌhashi #classicmonochrome #Stunday #architecture #Japan
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November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Seto Ohashi Bridge. 2024. #SetoInlandSea #Setouchi #瀬戸大橋 #SetoŌhashi #classicmonochrome #Stunday #architecture #Japan
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Born to a wealthy family in London, Yevonde Middleton - known as Madame Yevonde - is regarded as one of the best British portrait photographers; she pioneered the use of colour photography, at a time when the technology around it was still in its nascent stage. www.instagram.com/p/DRCXSMOD9G...
Hundred Heroines - Women in Photography on Instagram: "“Be original or die would be a good motto for photographers to adopt…”
Born to a wealthy family in London, Yevonde Middleton – better known a...
20 likes, 4 comments - hundredheroines on November 14, 2025: "“Be original or die would be a good motto for photographers to adopt…”
Born to a wealthy family in London, Yevonde Middleton – better ...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Born to a wealthy family in London, Yevonde Middleton - known as Madame Yevonde - is regarded as one of the best British portrait photographers; she pioneered the use of colour photography, at a time when the technology around it was still in its nascent stage. www.instagram.com/p/DRCXSMOD9G...
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This is very sad. Rachel Cooke gone much much too young. A lovely touching tribute from @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is very sad. Rachel Cooke gone much much too young. A lovely touching tribute from @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Seto Inland Sea. A view from Megijima. July 2025.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seto Inland Sea. A view from Megijima. July 2025.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
@bskyphotos.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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