Lot of ppl ready to knock wealth taxation: if it were just a low blow against wealth creators rather than a tiny act of redress for the truly gruesome asset grab perpetrated by the managerial/landlord/speculator classes since c. 1984 then yes, the knockers would have a point

On the P4 somewhere between Brixton and Catford like

'Amid the febrile claustrophobia of the Covid lockdown, the compelling strangeness of Kinski’s performance, and Kinski more generally, takes up residence in Myers’s head.' Keith Miller (Keith Miller) on a would-be messiah the-tls.com/literature/fic…

The monumental religious paintings Hogarth made for St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which have recently been restored, reveal the satirist’s excellent bedside manner, writes Kirsten Tambling

A golden oldie, mysteriously unpaywalled: Adrian Gill at Sand's End, sexist, snobbish and supercilious but baroquely brilliant. The place is long gone, having been declared structurally unsound after the publication of this review: thetimes.com/travel/destina…

couldn't help noticing that the pope put C&C under the Damned

Someone perhaps Andrew Baker should do a topical quiz question about these lads

Meanwhile somewhere in Japan the British ambassador nibbles politely at a 17-course omakase menu, a small totoro beside him

still a no from me

they should replace it with something uncompromisingly modernist in flavour, ideally from the pockmarked mid-century municipal school

‘a sadly overlooked sword dance in Oman’ - VG by this spunky nrw voice on the scene

a skillful if slightly anodyne warehouse conversion, yours for £2.25m, chiefly remarkable for unrivalled views of Michael Hopkins's David Mellor (not that one) miniblock at Shad Thames, surely one of the best buildings in London themodernhouse.com/sales-list/new…

Trump constantly reminds us of Freud's equation of money with shit

This is pretty much what the current care system does (and all the money goes to let’s say tax-efficient private providers rather than decent terms of employment for the actual carers )