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Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 22d

Now, with thanks to @joshspero.ft.com’s reporting, we have a real life example of this happening. More specifically, where is Fortnum and Mason’s tea from? (According to US customs.)

on.ft.com/4nsssZm Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’

Fortnum & Mason tea sales suffer as Trump’s trade war hits ‘King’s grocer’

Tougher stance on country of origin rules and scrapping of de minimis exemption drives up price in the US

on.ft.com

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · 25d

Scooting in Milan.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · Aug 23

Preston Bus Station is a gorgeous building with real clarity, beauty & function of architecture. The Lingotto of Lancashire.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 23

Also there’s a good café and some farm animals. It’s a good place to visit and is enlivened by children running about and learning (under supervision) how to break rocks.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 23

www.sergiipolezhaka.com/naive-ukrain...

Gallery 3 — Sergii Polezhaka

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 19

and that while he was performing he really thought he looked like Jean Shrimpton or Julie Christie. Which suits the character perfectly.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 19

We watched it last night and it’s great. Moving and funny. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 18

Meanwhile here’s Verdi’s tomb in Milan.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m just there for the first semester, sorry to say. Then back to Vezelay, where you’re welcome should your journey come this way.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 18

Or from next month the University of Milan. 👍🏻

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Aug 18

From What is Architecture? Andrew Ballantyne

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 15

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Jul 30

‘London was in his veins’: Gillian Darley pays tribute to the erudition, wit and open-mindedness of the architectural historian Andrew Saint, who has died at the age of 78.

‘London was in his veins’: Andrew Saint (1946–2025)

Gillian Darley remembers an architectural historian of great wit and erudition who was always keen to share his enthusiasms, which included a deep love of the capital

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 2

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer

A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

observer.co.uk

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 17

Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 15

Augsburg

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Jul 15

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jul 15

Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 14

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.

www.motherjones.com

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 12

Tiepolo at Würzburg.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 4

They’re on their best behaviour outside the National Gallery.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 4

Buttoned up, begloved and hatted with a look that’s complicit and maybe sceptical, while he looks more trusting but quietly dandyish with the waistcoat and cuff links.

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Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 4

I hadn’t seen this picture before. Now I can’t stop looking.

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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · Jun 7

It’s annoying to hear people say that old Damp courses have failed. Because they haven’t.
It’s complete nonsense.

What happens is people interfere, with them, eg filling these breather holes with cement mortar, bridging the DPC.

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