Richard Brown
@richardbrown
Cities, urban economics, housing, puns, poetry and pop music. Views are mine.
Fuzzy Kevin Morby at Chalk in Brighton last night. Expansive and thrilling.
Happy birthday yesterday to the USA, despite everything. Always love the mid century zippiness of this Wedgwood mug, designed by Richard Guyatt for the 200th.
Great detail in this piece. It’s been years since I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with London letting agents, but this would have set alarm bells ringing.
London looks so good from a train running through Blackfriars at sunset.
I see Johnny Depp and Boy George are following Bob Dylan and Ronnie Wood in becoming indifferent painters as well as ground breaking performers. #leaveit
I know the context is different, but this by @stephenkb.bsky.social (together with Roy Hattersley's death) reminds me of another Labour leader's views on "impossible promises". www.ft.com/content/4541...
This was wonderfully Dyer-esque. Funny and surprisingly moving. 3/5
This was absorbing (I read it in a day) and bleak as you like but not sure I really get the fuss. 2/5
Holiday reading notes: this is great, needs to be read while listening to Lou Reed’s ‘New York’ or after watching ‘Do the Right Thing’ for an immersive plunge in the “smelly essence of New York”. 1/5
In a bar. With a barman making drinks. Next to a screen showing a looped video of a barman making drinks.
Reading ‘A Month in the Country’ - on advice from someone on here I think. Some really lovely lyric writing.
And the "art". Vaguely smudged images of generic modern buildings. Like someone has read about Gerhard Richter in a book.
Patrick Cockburn clearly loving the photo shoot for his @theipaper.com byline.
The contrast between the 17 years before and after the crash is striking. The chart shows the median change for each quintile (20%) of population. Notable that top incomes have seen a bigger drop since crash, which means that inequality is stable or falling even as living standards stagnate. 2/2