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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 8h
Missing Sheep www.newyorker.com/books/flash-...
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“Missing Sheep,” by Anne Carson
We all play a bit of a game when in love, don’t we?
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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Luz silenciosa, Carlos Reygadas (2007)
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, controlled by the Greens, wrote to some Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them. I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety. www.jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-re...
Dear Mark Thank you for your emails to us. We take it from both the tone and the content of your email that you are deeply embarrassed with the decision taken by your party to not only brand Zionism as racism but to call for the eradication by any means necessary including violence, of the only Jewish state, the only practising democracy in the Middle East, and also home to half of the world’s Jewish population.  We are not surprised you are embarrassed. The policy decision which has not just been endorsed by but was publicly celebrated by the Haringey branch of the Green Party, of which we assume you are a member, is thus aligning itself with Hamas, a genocidal, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist terrorist organisation not only responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but countless murders and torture of its own people. You may not be aware that members of our synagogue have close relatives and friends who perished in that pogrom - of which today is the third anniversary - not to mention other horrendous terrorist atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance that your party supports. We also adopted Emily Damari, a British Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, suffered terribly at the hands of her Hamas jailers and had to keep her sexual orientation secret from her kidnappers or else would have been murdered, along with 87 others including the Bibas children, four year old Arieh and nine month old Kfir who were killed in cold blood for the sole crime of being Jewish children born in their ancestral homeland.  Our synagogue along with the majority of British synagogues recites weekly Sabbath prayers for both the Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the State of Israel and will continue to do so, irrespective of what you or other Green Party members think. 

 Love of Zion and a hope to be able to return to live in our ancestral homeland is integral to all streams of Judaism, as, it so happens,Earlier this year we hosted at Highgate Synagogue a noted Palestinian campaigner Ahmed Fouad AlKhatib who lost more than 30 family members in Gaza. He told a packed synagogue - and it was really packed -- how he as a Gazan and a Palestinian believed that Hamas had brought nothing but disaster on the Palestinian people, and that those keffiyeh wearing sympathizers in the West who cheer for Hamas are doing more harm than good.   He was no shill for Israel or its Prime Minister, but he at least acknowledged the attachment of Jews to this land, and the fact that non-Jews in Israel have rights that no-one, certainly not Jews or Christians, let alone Muslims can aspire to anywhere else in the Middle East. So no, we don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch. You may see no connection between the ceaseless vilification of Israel, the blood libels that you and your party regularly trot out, and the hostility to Jews in this country, but we do. If this motion does not mean that Jews in Haringey who have family or friends in Israel, or who attend our synagogue, or who maybe aren’t religious but believe that there is a place for a haven for the tattered remnant of the most persecuted race on earth, are considered by you and your party as racists and by implication fair game for ostracism, intimidation, violence or worse, please explain to us what else it means. And if that is indeed what it means, and we are pretty sure that those who voted for it believe that is precisely what it means, how can we as Jews feel safe when the largest party of the borough we live in, entirely peacefully up to now, publicly align yourself with the most virulent jew-hating racists of all, Hamas and the Nazis. As it is, despite living in one of the most peaceful and crime free parts of the borough, we have had as a synagogue to invest substantial sums in building terrorism-proof fences round our premises, and employ both volunteers and professional security with stab vests to enSo your embarrassment is not enough. If you really want us to feel you do not agree with the racist and genocidal implications of your party’s policy, the least we can expect is for you to publicly resile yourself from that policy and commit yourself and your party colleagues to reverse that policy and to educate themselves about the realities of the Middle East conflict, and about Jewish life, before you pronounce on these matters with such unshakeable certainty again.  Yours sincerely,
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Seine, the Dordogne, and the Garonne from seat 5A on the way to Madrid this morning.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last Friday’s Turner skies.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m sorry, what?
Titre d’une partie de livre «  la ville haussmanienne » 1770-1880
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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#everydaysurrealism
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
”There is always one moment in childhood, when the door opens and lets the future in." The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene, English writer, born #OTD 1904. Portrait Photograph 1939, National Portrait Gallery London
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
True that. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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At least Burnham doesn’t pretend to care about growth
Unlike his predecessors, Britain’s prime minister is a fairly honest stagnation-ist
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My acers already on the turn. 🍁
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “De Gaulle - Résistance” at Ciné Lumière. The director and cast turned up too. 🇫🇷
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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A joy forever. Even when you know what’s coming. Maybe *because* you know what’s coming.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or to push up daisies…
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Refreshed free link giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Trump is checking out of his presidency
With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Paul Bowles’ typewriter, score and specs, passport, and driving licence #tangier #tangieramericanlegation
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
- Bonjour monsieur. - You speak English? - Yes, of course. - Such beautiful tiles. The American runs his right hand over the wall, turns left when we get to the top of the stairs, and is gone. #tangiers
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Coffee in the Grand Café de Paris. Spurs v Aston Villa on the TV. #Tangier
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shoeshine man at Grand Socco on the look out for anyone not wearing trainers 👟 #tangiers
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Four from Tangiers 🇲🇦
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
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How Jane Austen Pulled It Off: On Emma by Jennifer Egan
June 11, 2025 – “Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out, not whodunnit, but wh...
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Omg so many of these www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘But enough about you …’ How to survive in a world of monologuists, interrupters and trauma dumpers
Conversations are supposed to be two-sided – but all too often we come up against someone who’s passionately, exclusively in love with the sound of their own voice. Time to fight back …
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An Orangina in Casablanca. Of all the gin joints in all the world etc
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just told ChatGPT it gets things wrong all the time. So now it’s apologising to me. AI is weird.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform.
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Man Smiling in Colorful Jacket
ALT: Man Smiling in Colorful Jacket
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fiction is “the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease”, Edith Hope observes in Hotel du Lac. But which Anita Brookner novel should the ill-at-ease try first? My guide to her some of her best books, for @thebookerprizes.com:
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Where to start with Anita Brookner: a guide to her best books | The Booker Prizes
Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A plague on both your houses.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When Louis Armstrong went to Ghana 🎺🇬🇭 www.louisarmstronghouse.org/armstrong-in...
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Armstrong in Ghana - Louis Armstrong House Museum
Louis Armstrong in Ghana A multinational exhibition and music exchange commemorating the 70th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s concert tour to Accra Opening Weekend October 1 – 3 1956 was a... Read mo...
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Buckwheat tea is my hot tip.
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Creature from the Black Lagoon” did it for me.
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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My stories aren't really set in the future, but in a kind of visionary present.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rescued these two from storage. Perhaps I should’ve left them where they were?
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#nowplaying 🎷🎻🥁
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nice! 🔥 *checks train times to Ghent
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
But you haven’t posted photos of the record shops you’ve visited 😉
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Its glint the worldflash of a coming future”
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚖 Taxi Tehran, directed by Jafar Panahi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ youtube.com/shorts/Ag9Wj...
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TAXI TEHRAN | Jafar Panahi | MUBI
YouTube video by MUBI
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you!
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A knew someone who lived in the same block in Elm Park Gardens. Her mother was a good friend of Anita Brookner. I remember seeing her walking down the road, much like the painting of her by Ron Kitai, who had a studio on the corner.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ll have to read about that Poussin painting in here!
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did she write about her fascination? I spent a good while looking at it on Sunday…
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Friday tomorrow.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here, more or less…
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l e a @leabysea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
August 2026 #sussexgrey #skyproject #photography
A grid of photographs showing the west sky every morning in August except 31 August cus it ruins the grid, in my view. It’s mainly been a sunny month with more blue skies than grey.
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes, very much so. Some real gems.
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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hilarious
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Welcome to Battersea!
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