Or these puppets yesterday at the puppet museum in Ortigia, Sicily.

Not that you'd ever know.

Great newsletter from @jim.londoncentric.media with this striking stat about the iniquity of local govt finance: open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Visited National Trust Coughton Court for the first, and probably last time today. Aristocrats who live there will charge NT members to visit from next year. This is why and the sign outside their church tells a lot about them share.google/61IuC2AMTRNk...

These well-spoken ladies in Chipping Camden today said they were waiting to be arrested. No Palestinian Action posters but their polite demo says something about the English sense of fair play.

I always think when I come to the Barbican that if it was anywhere else in the UK it would be a distopian urban hell hole. Marvellous what money can do.

35 years since I left Halifax and the post-industrial grimness has finally been shaken off. Traffic free streets, a fabulous new-look Piece Hall and all those great Victoria buildings, somehow saved from the Sixties wrecking balls, look better than ever.

@helenmiller.bsky.social is this really true from today's Times?

Terrific night watching Ghost Stories at Liverpool Playhouse at the start of UK tour. The show premiered at the same place in 2010. Theatre at its best. Bound to be hot tickets:
ghoststoriesplay.com

Great comment in FT on Trump's tariffs...

Regulators never change. 1578 and bad news for the vicar of Ingleton when the commissioners visit from Chester.

@steverichards.bsky.social Sound familiar ...? www.theguardian.com/business/202... #thameswater