Sanjiv Sachdev
@sanjivsachdev
Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.
This beauty arrived today courtesy of @humanaqvi.bsky.social and the offices of @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - thanks to both
The language here is so overblown. No one was sent to a gulag & shot. No one is in emergency A&E.
It has a slogan! ‘Cherishing, liberty, and identity - One page at a time’. Grammar, not so much.
And Roger Scruton’s estate loaned her some books. I suspect that The Hungarian Conservative that she proudly sells is not long for this world.
Well, that bookshop is quite something. ‘Britain’s ONLY fully licensed, common sense bookshop’ where an old Enoch Powell biography is a best seller…
Not related to the above but I saw this at the current Marilyn Monroe show at the National Portrait Gallery - may interest you. Arthur Miller is cycling with her (in England)
A fabulous display of Jane’s Aircraft books (from 1949 onwards) at the FARA charity bookshop in Teddington
This was the prescient response by (the very colourful) Edwin Edwards after he defeated Duke (quoted in the excellent’When the Clock Broke’ by John Ganz
From an old New Yorker piece (2020) by Alex Ross. This quote by Thomas Mann has so much salience today:
This Carlyle quote in Tony Judt’s 2005 ‘Postwar’ seems especially apposite at the moment
Saw this at the National Portrait Gallery. Leigh Bowery at peace, perhaps asleep. Goodnight all.
Aside from the use of ‘expat’ (as, heaven forbid, Brits could never, ever be ‘migrants’), might Brexit be a teeny-weeny factor in this?
Saw the Lucien Freud show at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday. Many marvels but it also had this drawing of Stephen Spender that looks uncannily like Elon Musk.