Michael Ledger-Lomas
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC
A Sorel Barbour collaboration feel very Carney's Canada (not least as it doesn't look as good as it sounds on paper)
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A Sorel Barbour collaboration feel very Carney's Canada (not least as it doesn't look as good as it sounds on paper)
Fowler's abhorred elegant variation in the Globe's ostrich piece
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fowler's abhorred elegant variation in the Globe's ostrich piece
Reading that there's a big rainstorm timetabled for Halloween.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reading that there's a big rainstorm timetabled for Halloween.
Writing about this
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Writing about this
A box of books from Renaud Bray
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A box of books from Renaud Bray
Biology rather than democracy strikes me as the main reason why this is fairly unlikely to happen
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Biology rather than democracy strikes me as the main reason why this is fairly unlikely to happen
What was Ford thinking in commissioning this?
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
What was Ford thinking in commissioning this?
Spend a hundred bucks at Macleods to get thirty percent off - not a very difficult challenge.
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Spend a hundred bucks at Macleods to get thirty percent off - not a very difficult challenge.
I like to imagine Jesus popping up like Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall: I'm the Risen Christ and you know nothing of my work.
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I like to imagine Jesus popping up like Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall: I'm the Risen Christ and you know nothing of my work.
Aloysius O'Kelly, Mass in a Connemara Cabin (1883)
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Aloysius O'Kelly, Mass in a Connemara Cabin (1883)
Just catching up with that AI Trump video
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just catching up with that AI Trump video
Very special to catch the very end of the age of sail in North Vancouver: Kipling's world and Joseph Conrad's.
October 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Very special to catch the very end of the age of sail in North Vancouver: Kipling's world and Joseph Conrad's.
In the Globe and Mail every Friday, Kerry Gold explains to you why we don't need to build more houses in Vancouver and then on the next page a couple explains to you why their 2500sq ft second home was too small.
September 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In the Globe and Mail every Friday, Kerry Gold explains to you why we don't need to build more houses in Vancouver and then on the next page a couple explains to you why their 2500sq ft second home was too small.
I suppose it's the logic of politics that if Starmer shows pained tolerance for mass murder, Badenoch differentiates herself through grinning enthusiasm. Still, when I was younger, Conservatives in Britain believed in the rule of law.
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I suppose it's the logic of politics that if Starmer shows pained tolerance for mass murder, Badenoch differentiates herself through grinning enthusiasm. Still, when I was younger, Conservatives in Britain believed in the rule of law.
At Menya Raizo
August 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
At Menya Raizo
In the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Cheetham Hill
August 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Cheetham Hill
MOA looks quite splendid today
July 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
MOA looks quite splendid today
Swimming (Canada Day)
July 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Swimming (Canada Day)
Canadian Catholicism in one window
June 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Canadian Catholicism in one window
Swimming (Mad Dog hour)
June 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Swimming (Mad Dog hour)
Swimming (9pm)
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Swimming (9pm)
Took my daughter to some excellent pottery shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery and got home to news that its receipts are down and it <must> therefore shed a lot of staff. Leaving it to the rich to fund the arts doesn't work in a town where they'd rather spend on rebuilding their statement homes.
June 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Took my daughter to some excellent pottery shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery and got home to news that its receipts are down and it <must> therefore shed a lot of staff. Leaving it to the rich to fund the arts doesn't work in a town where they'd rather spend on rebuilding their statement homes.