Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘October’ (From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)

Merna Kennedy looking like a Bauhaus student. 1926 portrait to announce her role opposite Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928).

Anne Carson, the new Nobel Laureate in literature, has Icelandic citizenship. We as a nation will become absolutely insufferable about now having TWO Nobel winning writers. Just imagine all the per capita calculations we can drum up with this one!

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong.

Velocipede Brace ca. 1869

"Does the UK want to reopen the bitter Brexit debate?" asks Vicki Young. There is a way of reviewing our relationship with Europe that does not reopen "the bitter Brexit debate", which I think is underpriced. We could all be honest and agree that Brexit was a shit idea.

The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.

Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years.

Unlike other sectors that form part of Labour’s superego, the BBC is cutting 1,800–2,000 jobs, but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone in the government.

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent