tim abrahams
@timabrahams
modernist
This is very good on one of our era's emblematic intellectual mountebanks; someone who will destroy almost anything to satisfy his own moral vanity.
“The narrative barely maintains the distinction between evidence-based fact and material drawn from hearsay and opinion” — @verdur_in is unconvinced by a case for decolonisation thecritic.co.uk/the-dead-hand-…
He is right though isn't he? Swift's words *led* to the callous attitude of the British aristocracy to the Irish famine. Let's stop labouring under the misconception that he was satirising it when he was prepping them for it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I have read that premodern Chinese cities were mostly single-storey, unlike those elsewhere in Asia and Europe. This puzzles me, since they must have foregone considerable agglomeration effects thereby.
I have read that premodern Chinese cities were mostly single-storey, unlike those elsewhere in Asia and Europe. This puzzles me, since they must have foregone considerable agglomeration effects thereby.
It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project (scmp.com/news/china/dip…). It'll be by far the world’s largest hydroelectric facility, generating 3 times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam, 300 billion kilowatt-hours. This dam project…
Giorgio de Chirico painting for the cover of Thelonious Monk's Misterioso
Statement on Layla Khoo's Artwork at Hardwick Hall
Vanburgh's Castle Howard. 1725 Engraving by Hendrik Hulsbergh
NEWS: The Bernat Klein Studio, located in the Scottish borders near Selkirk, has recently been advertised for sale at auction. Designed by Peter Womersley in 1972, the Category A listed modernist masterpiece has lain empty and semi-derelict for more then 20 years. C20 has since…
it is an absoultely brilliant book. read the review and listen to my interview with @tiffanyjenkins here. machinebooks.co.uk/tiffany-jenkin…
A fascinating new book lays out how thinking about privacy has evolved. “Strangers and Intimates” is one of those rare works that changes how you see the world econ.st/4ngZrkn
This is how the council takeover by reclaim the streets types plays out. A scheme designed with a negative intention (making a road difficult to navigate by traffic) plays out its negativity for all users of the public realm. It's worse than amateur, because amateurs would care.
Every gardener knows that it doesn't just stop at planting trees, you need to water and maintain them. Sadly, all the trees on Broad Street in the funny wooden tubs have died due to council neglect.
Tebbit's words on British nationals supporting Pakistan is not a Test, it is a valuable observation. To engineer it into one is reactionary and stupid.
The reason why we have lots of shit housing in this country is that we have created the perfect conditions for a monopoly. Destroy the monopoly.
Seven of the UK’s biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m to affordable housing schemes after an investigation by @CMAgovUK unearthed evidence that the companies may have been sharing commercially sensitive information with each other theguardian.com/business/2025/…
I was once invited to a book club to discuss one of my books. At the end they took it in turns to give the book a mark out of 10, to my face. I reckon the average score was about 3.5.
This entertaining piece in @The_Fence_Mag reminds me of the time I was invited by a book club to discuss my own book; only 2 people turned up ("loads more" had RSVP'd apparently) and neither had read the book. the-fence.com/turn-up-for-th…