Wood turner.
Sussex now Norfolk
Joined February 2022
- Tweets13.2K
- Following424
- Followers547
- Likes21.7K
Pinned Tweet
Also from the Colburne in Bath. Masterful use of paint, colour and light. The hair texture (see replies) is stunning. Can't underestimate what the gold frame does for it, too. Visit and see it close up.
Downlandia retweeted
“In the early 2060s, the white British will become a minority within the United Kingdom,” if immigration trends continue, warns demographer @MorlandDemog.
He says Britain has changed more in his adult lifetime “than in the preceding thousand years”. In Brent, where he grew up, white Britons are now “perhaps 15% of the population”.
“This is completely unprecedented.”
Watch the full interview: youtu.be/Z2tplmZlhQU?si=fmGD…
Downlandia retweeted
"It's not for you; it's for me"
Horowitz in Rehearsal at Carnegie Hall
January 7, 1965
Horowitz had not appeared in public since 1953. His great comeback concert at Carnegie Hall would be on May 9, 1965. I love this rather intimate recording of Horowitz in rehearsal at Carnegie Hall on January 7, 1965. Enjoy!
0:00 Horowitz improvising I
3:24 Conversation I and Horowitz testing the piano
5:24 Horowitz improvising II
10:31 Conversation II
11:28 Bach/Busoni, Toccata Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564, I Preludio
17:57 II Intermezzo Adagio
22:15 III Fuga Moderamente scherzando un poco umoristico
27:19 Conversation III
28:15 Chopin - Polonaise Fantaisie in A Flat Major Op. 61
41:19 Conversation IV
41:42 Debussy : Etudes Livre II No. 11 Pour les arpèges composés
45:45 Conversation V
47:12 Schumann : Fantasie in C Major Op. 17 Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen (first movement)
58:08 Conversation VI
58:24 Chopin : Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor Op. 55 No. 1
Downlandia retweeted
My pleasure, Ian @longitch & I'm very glad to hear that yesterday was just "complicated" rather than being problematic! Here's one that I hope you'll like this #SundayMorning: "St Mark's Church" by Harold Steggles from 1932. His view was taken from Wick Lane as you'll see.
"At its core, Bioleninism proposes a simple mechanism: grant symbolic or material advantage to marginalised groups, creating existential dependency on the order that empowered them."
For the uninitiated, an essay explaining @spandrell4’s Bioleninism, in @ReinersProject: reiners.org.uk/bioleninism-1…
Downlandia retweeted
The term bioleninsm appears to have fallen out of fashion in online right circles, but it remains a valid descriptor for obvious reasons.
🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”
She says the left should not try to beat fascists “at their own game” by becoming “fitter, more eugenic.”
“In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.”
She closes by arguing that revolution is not “a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies” and that the very idea is itself fascist.
Downlandia retweeted
i never knew there was an actual term for this:
epistemic loneliness is a cognitive form of isolation that happens when you cannot share complex ideas, inner thoughts, or meaningful perspectives because you lack a willing, able, or understanding conversational partner.
Downlandia retweeted
This is a must watch if you really want to understand what Labour are doing to our economy..
Downlandia retweeted
Things that are now rightwing:
Investigative journalism
Academic rigour
Scientific dissent
Nature
Facts
Biology
Politeness
Punctuality
Normality
Free speech
Individual rights
Rationality
Objectivity
Self-reliance
Emotional restraint
Delayed gratification
