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The ‘dance of mutual delusion’: ‘How Saudi Arabia’s Neom Megacity Dream Collapsed‘.

Two great stories from The Londonder: Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved – then sank – London’s newspaper and an exploration of the Heygate, London’s lost Brutalist estate / a huge repository of live music at Moshpit (via Paste Magazine) … Contin…

The dark forest.

Mix and match for May and June.

Media.

Architecture and Design.

Architecture and urbanism: 2026 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Níall McLaughlin / an abandoned village in Wales / How the Aylesbury Estate became London’s theatre of stigma / Then and now: one year on from the Los Angeles wildfires / … Continue reading →

In no particular order.

Art and photography / a long-running project by the late artist Tom Phillips, 20 Sites’n’Years / paintings by Claire Sherman / lino cuts by Annie Soudain / ‘Nieves González paints Lily Allen at a turning point’ / the art of … Continue reading →

Architecture things.

Other things.

Broken Veil is a new podcast that dips into the weird/psychogeographic/quasi-non-fictional realm / a sad farewell to publishers Unbound / Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library / The Social Media Sea Change, … Cont…

The Inconvenient Astrologer Of MI5 / Twin Peaks donut supercut (via Andrew Womack) / Arcade Marquees, a book that ‘showcases a collection of 600 arcade video game marquees from 1980 to 2020′ / see also this huge digitised library of … Continue reading →

Where have all the flowers gone?

All about Elite, including Elite on the 6502, which meticulously pores through the source code of the original BBC Micro game / sort of related, the ISS offers a live-streamed view of Earth / also sort of related, For the … Continue reading →

Utter December randomness follows.

We all deserve and need random, enjoyable links.

Present and Correct is not just a meticulously presented stationery store, but also a fantastic old school blog, a curatorial treasure trove of the kind that was practically extinguished by the rise of social media.

Posting is very sporadic right now, apologies.

Here, there, and everywhere.

Design and culture things.

So, we’re now secure.

Thor, begone!

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