I had no idea Mitrokhin was on the poolside for the infamous USSR/Hungary water polo match in Melbourne in 1956

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I like this. Up for auction with Rogers Jones and Co.

Not sure if it was just a bad buy or the heat but the synthetic net of the netball hoop we bought six weeks ago is disintegrating

I liked his treatment of the waves off the Dutch coast.

Went to see the Tate’s Whistler exhibition earlier. This is of Southampton Docks.

Maybe all that happened was that neither of them could correctly answer “what’s 13 x 17?” quick enough.

Bizarre centre justification leads to lines like “And David Lammy”

Another splendid Kyffin Williams seascape up for auction

Better angle:

Holiday Fun: make your very own Gianni Infantino with a ping pong ball and a Sharpie

This is extraordinary. You can see why they’ve tried to gag her and why, every single time the gag gets mentioned, she sells a few thousand more copies

From a great piece on ministerial red boxes

The Mancunian Candidate

FT today (left) WSJ (right)

Why, I wonder, was Carney doing that?

French (?or Axis) propaganda depicting French troops covering the British withdrawal from Dunkirk

From a great article on Swiss food in the FT

Spectator leading with Whataboutism this week

Hydration Break

"Coulda sworn I heard a gunshot then"

Hermann Buhl on Nanga Parbat. What pills were these? Benzedrine?

“having lived under both” JFC

Proud to be on this list

I love the way the look of the book is exactly like a Shell Guide to one of the English counties. And there’s a useful appendix showing how much the going rate for porters on the various stages is.

Very happy with this charity shop find.

Professed, surely, not confessed?

I wonder if the king turns to Camilla and says, "another bluddy email from HMRC calling me a customer, when I'm the bluddy king" (pic of His Majesty's Tax Return courtesy of @danneidle.bsky.social)

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