This addictive space, for all the valiant folk trying to use it for fun, reflection & information, is now the corrupted plaything of a damaged soul, harmful to everything & everyone I care about. Time to wake up & kick him & his malign orange idiot out of my daily consciousness.

Lecturing tonight for the @TheArtsSociety_ Wilmslow on the passions, personalities (with deep wallets) & patronage over 16+ generations that have formed the Devonshire Collections at @ChatsworthHouse where Rembrandt is in dialogue with Sargent & Freud, Canova with Frink & de Waal

Heading to the @TheArtsSociety_ Lincoln tonight to lecture for them on the life & times of Debo, Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire & (in her own words) 'house-wife' & about the impact she had on @ChatsworthHouse & its visitor businesses with her husband Andrew over more than 50 yrs.

No-one could tell this story better than @FredDeakin

America needs to sit on him until he finally rots away.

Heading across country today, to lecture to @TheArtsSociety_ West Suffolk in the morning on the life & times of Debo, Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire & (in her words) house-wife, and about the impact she had on @ChatsworthHouse with her husband Andrew over more than 50 years.

Grim, but there is much one might be grim about…

A lovely introduction to the genesis of her Firestacks, by the artist @BrookJules - The Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook - terrain.org/2024/arterrain/j… via @terrainorg

A good overview of the fiction-filled world of the obliquely-funded anti-woke crowd seeking to undermine the @nationaltrust as a place of welcome to all. Central to their ‘thinking’ is the bizarre belief that saying nothing about our heritage is neutral/apolitical. Far from it.

Precisely.

If it wasn’t all unfolding in English, do you think it would feel as mystifying & horrific? It’s like witnessing an obscure ‘primitive’ cult from a land & a time far, far away, only there are 70m of them, it’s a country I know & love & it seems as though I understand every word.

One of the people involved in this tweet below is proving to be one of the supreme communicators of our time, articulating what millions believe & care about, always alert, witty & relevant, and they & their organisation are worthy of our support. The other is Nigel Farage.

The pleasure I feel seeing the rich beauty of this at @KedlestonNT is only enhanced by knowing it will infuriate all the right people, those rent-a-gob anti-wokers, the ‘keep our history English & triumphant (& white)’ historical illiterates & the dark-money culture warriors. Ha!

This is going to be a very special cookery book crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sacred-e…

The only possible responses to the rancid punching down that seems to animate the wretched @KemiBadenoch so powerfully. Long may she be rich enough to mitigate & support any ‘differences’ that may arise in her children/loved ones, without recourse to the State she so despises.

Rightfully contemptuous & well-informed reflection from @johnharris1969 (who, like us, has skin in the game) on the wretched need for conservatives like Badenoch to seek out the most vulnerable in society & stomp all over them, with lies, distortion & ugly indifference. Repulsive

Lovely. I’m grateful to any man in public life willing to speak of the heart. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

Though they aren’t named, this is a pretty good explanation of the Trump/Johnson phenomenon in our politics.