Lots to like about a set of sartorial strollers

A mother refuses to allow her son's dead body to be covered. 'The nurses and other doctors who were in the I.C.U. that day said that Karam died of complications from malnutrition' writes Nicholas Kristof simply, laying bare a shameful state of affairs nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opi…

This is great. One for Kay Buxton

A lovely touch National Theatre Thank you

This is a great exhibition exploring and inverting the stories that sit, and once celebrated, across the RIBA's HQ. Thanks to Arinjoy Sen for explaining his painstaking work that turns the symbolism on its head & Neal Shasore for your knowledge and inspiration guiding this show

'Please don't stop. Don't believe that retirement is even on your horizon.' - Dr Margaret Nkrumah, African Future Institute

🏅 The countdown is on. Tonight we award Professor Lesley Lokko the #RoyalGoldMedal 2024.

📽️ Watch our full #RoyalGoldMedal film: ow.ly/GME150RtyMG

I don’t have to be a clairvoyant to predict a “When it hits the fan” episode on the perils of naming rights. David Yelland

Such a splendid occasion and a wonderful acceptance speech from Lesley Lokko, her eloquent and illuminating 'love letter to architecture'.

When I moved to London in the mid 1980s I loved how it had the Trafaglar Square 24 hour post office - sadly now a Pret. It was up there with buying the Sunday papers outside Leicester Square tube station on the way home from a Saturday night out to make me feel London was special

The early worm catches the ... er... post. Over recent weeks I've been staggered by the number of central London Royal Mail post boxes that have theirr 'last' collection at 9am. Now this is Covent Garden. How can a single very early collection be classed as the 'last'. Ofcom?

I'm with edwin heathcote on the impact of Paul Auster's writing. His penmanship and on-point presence in both literary and New York life were immense.

I am using this lovely photo to express my great sadness on hearing of the death of Rosemarie MacQueen. She had an amazing mind and brought great insight - on heritage, planning, place - to all her roles. RIP Rosemarie - you will be missed. Jackie Sadek Susan Freeman Victoria Hills MRTPI

Bermondsey blue sky and a sea of ceanothus

Great example of how video games might 'up skill' navigation. Lots of mass online games now really do push navigation skills. Level design is a huge impressive art. See Max Pears amazing podcast on level design.

A very different Tooley Street. London SE1 Community Website

This is simply horrible

After years of off-shoring this is a small but important piece of good news for UK fashion and manufacturing as ⁦Derbyshire heritage brand John Smedley⁩ scales up to manufacture for other brands. The first sign up is DAKS London⁩
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One photo, three enduring classics. (I'm counting the gas lamp Tyler Goodwin )

In a departure for Lunch with the FT, a duo: the Pet Shop Boys. The “East End Boys” chose a West End venue and took me to their wonderful whizz thru 80s London, including a gloriously uncluttered Waterloo Station, where the typography shines out
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A day to honour the artist, designer and art director, Clarice Cliff with a blue plaque Historic England Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Stoke-on-Trent is rightly proud of the work, international influence and creative force of Cliff. Thank you Stoke-on-Trent CC Jane Ashworth The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery V&A Wedgwood Collection