Tim Aldrich

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Kier Starmer on the phone at his desk
Painting of line of soldiers, “Gassed” - by John Singer Sargent
“That no-bid contract went to a firm whose ultimate owner is the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust, led by Trump donor John J. Cafaro, whose wife chaired the 2017 International Red Cross Ball at Mar-a-Lago and who lives near Mar-a-Lago at a mansion that is listed as the water treatment company’s address in Florida corporate records. The name of the firm is Greenwater Services.l
Sunrise with shopping trolley upside down down in foreground in a park
Headline in The Guardian: Blair, Kushner and Rubio named for Gaza ‘board of peace’. Accompanying photo of grinning Tony Blair meeting a Saudi official
Listings for Mrs President and Oh, Mary!
Butchers handing out £10 turkeys for Christmas at Smithfield Market
Butcher stands at Smithfield surrounded by an eager crowd
Venn diagram of oysters on the left, mushrooms on the right and oyster mushrooms in the middle
Headline: Can you spot the difference? [two pictures: one of a Canadian lake taken by an iPhone 15 and the same image but with the lake dried up purportedly by an iPhone 92] Text: What will the iPhone 92 look like? We've no idea. But we do know what the planet could look like if fast tech continues to release new “upgrades” year after year.
Five random plastic bollards on a street in London
Ron Howard in 1995 - or is it Jannick Sinner?
Front page of The Guardian with photo of Starmer, Macron and Merz in casual clothing
Outside of Waitrose in Canary Wharf - the ‘a’ in Waitrose is missing
Email ad from Backmarket: “text: Penguin-approved discount, Tariff Special! We can’t stop the US from taxing penguins, but we can offer you £10 off your next order* Use code ELON”
Newspaper front page: THE ONION. Headline: WORLD’S BIGGEST METAPHOR HITS ICE-BERG.
Text from Private Eye: Talking of which, Elon Musk has fathered another child - his 14th, by most reckonings - called Seldon Lycurgus, a brother for Strider, Azure and Arcadia. (Want to know your Elon Musk Child Name? Take a sci-fi or fantasy character and mash it together with a Windows software package, ancient general or US military jet. I'm Gandalf Office 360.
The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich with the Queen Anne’s House and the Royal Observatory in the distance on a misty Spring morning from across the river
Cartoon by James Gilray, The Plum-pudding in danger - William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte sit at a table carving up the globe like a roast joint
Text from The Guardian: “And as the months rolled away, it was possible to view the Chiesa signing as a kind of misplaced opportunism, a bargain for the sake of a bargain, the footballing equivalent of those ready meals with a yellow sticker in the supermarket. You don’t strictly need it. But how wrong can a 39p beef rendang really go?”
Headline from the Guardian columnist Adria Chiles: “I’ve lost all faith in zips”
Two dogs lying on a sofa (and pillows)
Guardian text quote: “As if heralding a Yorkshire invasion, the brewery often re-christened its new purchases: the Tudor Rose became the Rose of York, Henekey’s Long Bar on High Holborn became the Cittie of Yorke.”
Test from the Ft: Taylor Swift by Sheryl Sandberg | Chemena Kamali by Sienna Miller | Sally Rooney by Lena Dunham | Emma Stone by Kathryn Hunter | Elyanna by Arwa Haider | Charli XCX by Gillian Anderson | Adejoké Bakare by Maria Balshaw | Margrethe Vestager by Lina Khan | Rachel Reeves by Mariana Mazzucato | Lisa Su by Tsai Ing-wen | Ursula von der Leyen by Kristalina Georgieva | Kamala Harris by Rana Foroohar | Cristina Junqueira by Luiza Trajano | Fei-Fei Li by Melinda French Gates | Claudia Sheinbaum by Gillian Tett | Christine Lagarde by Minouche Shafik | Julia Hoggett by Sharon White | Ruth Porat by Jane Fraser | Arundhati Roy by Naomi Klein | Bisan Owda by Heba Saleh | Gisèle Pelicot by Leïla Slimani | Yulia Navalnaya by Zhanna Nemtsova | Simone Biles by Anna Wintour | Jasmin Paris by Eilish McColgan | Anne Hidalgo by Leila Abboud
Kitchen counter with a cooked turkey in which two knives are stuck and the words “Turkey meets ninja 🥷 “ below
There is basic lack of viciousness. Later in the half he confronted Bradley again, did at least 40 whiffling stepovers, a man dancing quite near a game of football, then lost the ball.
Mickey the border collie sits and offers his hand to mine
1kg wholewheat sourdough loaf fresh from the over on a resting rack
Two boiled eggs and two buttered crumpets with Marmite
Screen shot of Bluesky feed - with bottom half of a post advertising the next edition of The F-Word edited by Jesse Sheidlower and beneath that the “Shakespeare of Swearing” Ian Martin responding to BBC Radio 3 playing Scott Joplin with the response “please, fuck off”
Live feed from the BBC of the 100 Weddings In One Day event at Old Marylebone Town Hall
The lead gunman had adopted “Salim” as his non de guerre. His real name was Towfiq I Rabin al-Rashidi, and he was an unlikely terrorist: highly intelligent, well educated, multilingual, damaged and determined. He was also volatile and sensitive, capable of self-righteous murder.
Pig sleeping
Same park, different avenue
NYT headline: Kamala Harris’s tan suit was surprising for two reasons, our fashion critic writes. With pic of said Kamala Harris in tan suit waving
The Onion front page for April 16, 1912 - headlined: WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR HIT ICE-BERG
The Danakil Depression is a plain approximately 125 miles long by 35 miles wide that lies at the northern end of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia. Formed by the divergence of three tectonic plates in the Horn of Africa, it lies 410 feet below sea level while year-round temperatures make it the hottest place on Earth.
Poll from the Times on politicians’ popularity showing the Conservative SoS for Health and Social Care as a Labour MP
In 1960, life changed when his distant cousin Heinrich adopted him, making him the heir to the Schwarzenberg family’s main line, and with it, an inheritance of properties and titles across Europe. Karel goes to rest as his serene highness, (twice) Prince Schwarzenberg, Count of Sulz, Princely Landgrave of Klettgau and Duke of Krumlov. Seven years later, he married Countess Therese Hardegg, a doctor, and they had three children.
Robert Peel
Benjamin Disraeli
Arthur Balfour
Stanley Baldwin
Winston Churchill
Photo of Harold Macmillan