Bryan Appleyard CBE

So, after tainted blood and sub-postmasters, what will be the next great British attempt to screw things up with fatal consequences and attempt to delay compensation until everybody is dead? My guess is shitty rivers, but there are so many other possibles.

‘The future is hard but not impossible. We should free ourselves of the worship of the tech gods – Musk, Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg, etc – and their money. They are so blinded by their ingenuity that they know very little of value.’ Me on the media engelsbergideas.com/essays/t…

Putin’s nuclear threat has crashed the art market.

So do I

The post Office scndal, “reveals that a wall of obtuse legalism has been used to subdue anybody that cannot afford litigation - about 99% of the population I would guess.” Me on how not to build bad stuff humanise.org/opinions/a-huma…

Thanks, Jordan.

It’s Angela Rayner. Nothing spooky there

Loving is the word.

Honoured but you must be very tired.

Im a good way?

They can’t help it, they have a primitive conception of freedom.

‘To say that photography has lost its innocence – an innocence born of the photographic genius of Julia Margaret Cameron or Eugène Atget – is to wildly understate the issue.’ Me on war and photography in @spectator spectator.co.uk/article/no-o…

‘The robots known as banks, for example, have succeeded in bringing the world to its knees with appalling regularity.’ My review of David Runciman’s The Handover in @EngelsbergIdeas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

‘For the former, Autumn Variations will be yet another occasion to despair at the colossal popularity of such proudly unimaginative, staunchly unoriginal and intellectually bereft music.’ Rachel Aroesti speaks truth to the power of Ed Sheeran theguardian.com/music/2023/s…

I’m afraid I did

‘Any Utopia must be dystopian, for a life of rational harmony is the death of the soul.’ John Gray in The New Leviathans

Tucker Carlson is the only man in the who can make Trump look well dressed. @TuckerCarlson @realDonaldTrump @YSL @PaulSmithDesign Etc