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Sanjiv Sachdev

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Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.

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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This (in Chapter 13) struck me as particularly apt.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cyril Power is back at Richmond Station…
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well this stopped me in my tracks (from David Runiciman, The Cult of Longevity, the LRB 23rd July)…
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This beauty arrived today courtesy of @humanaqvi.bsky.social and the offices of @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - thanks to both
Cover of the novel ‘This is where the Serpent lives’ by Daniyal Mueenuddin
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The language here is so overblown. No one was sent to a gulag & shot. No one is in emergency A&E.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Magritte’s ‘This is not a pipe’ painting subverted to read ‘This is not a red card’.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It has a slogan! ‘Cherishing, liberty, and identity - One page at a time’. Grammar, not so much.
Slogan for the right wing bookshop
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And Roger Scruton’s estate loaned her some books. I suspect that The Hungarian Conservative that she proudly sells is not long for this world.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Well, that bookshop is quite something. ‘Britain’s ONLY fully licensed, common sense bookshop’ where an old Enoch Powell biography is a best seller…
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This was particularly striking!
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Not related to the above but I saw this at the current Marilyn Monroe show at the National Portrait Gallery - may interest you. Arthur Miller is cycling with her (in England)
Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller cycling in England
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Possibly trolling Trump?
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
And of course, I missed this
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hockney’s covers to Ali Smith’s Quintet.
Hockney paintings of the season - covers to Ali Smiths books
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amsterdam. The least romantic place for a love lock.
Several love locks on a grey, metal box plastered with odd tarnished stickers
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Gorgeous woodcut cover at my local charity bookshop
Woodcut cover of a penguin classic ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ‘
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A fabulous display of Jane’s Aircraft books (from 1949 onwards) at the FARA charity bookshop in Teddington
Display of Jane’s Aircraft books from 1949 onwards in a charity bookshop
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sign in Brighton, near a church.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My error…
Spectator cover dec 2022
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here he is in Dec 2022
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This was the prescient response by (the very colourful) Edwin Edwards after he defeated Duke (quoted in the excellent’When the Clock Broke’ by John Ganz
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My partner’s daughter saw this in Buenos Aires..
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
About Venezuela in today’s FT. It surprise me.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sorting some old magazines & I came across this stylish cover.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
From an old New Yorker piece (2020) by Alex Ross. This quote by Thomas Mann has so much salience today:
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This Carlyle quote in Tony Judt’s 2005 ‘Postwar’ seems especially apposite at the moment
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Saw this at the National Portrait Gallery. Leigh Bowery at peace, perhaps asleep. Goodnight all.
A naked, perhaps sleeping, Leigh Bowery on a sofa - painted by Lucien Friend.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
According to the FT:
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Aside from the use of ‘expat’ (as, heaven forbid, Brits could never, ever be ‘migrants’), might Brexit be a teeny-weeny factor in this?
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Saw the Lucien Freud show at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday. Many marvels but it also had this drawing of Stephen Spender that looks uncannily like Elon Musk.
Drawing of Stephen Spender, that looks uncannily like Elon Musk.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Got my first Xmas email!
Christmas at Kew advert
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Guardian offered this…
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Cheesy but topical
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Brighton. What is a Fresh Pint? And is it served in wine glasses?
A strange sign saying Fresh Pints with a fish & a wine glass
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Some good news?Graphic from the FT - impressive figures for the UK (the absence of figures from France might alter that)
The UK battery capacity is set to be far larger than that of most European nations- well ahead of Germany & Italy (no figures for France)
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Bizarrely the same store is selling half price Lindt reindeer while simultaneously selling full price Lindt bunnies - in December!
Easter chocolates on sale in December
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I was not expecting to see a picture of Gramsci in sleepy Teddington (in the window of an antique shop) this morning
A picture of Gramsci in the top left hand corner.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Reflected image, Charleston.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Depressed to see a nationalised railway offering me a subscription to the Telegraph.
Offer of a 4 month subscription to the Telegraph from SWR - a nationalised railway
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The FT’s ‘Sustainability Special’ this weekend includes an advert for this monster. Deep sigh.
A big black Range Rover sport
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Four carriages, two of them first class, all of them brim full (I am unable to get on as are most of the people waiting) . Grim.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In Ham (South West London) today. I suspect this wasn’t expressing ardent support for the impending game against Wales.
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
But are they grown on the fashionable side? (Waitrose, Richmond)
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Another tale from Dower:
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Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
One of the many amazing stories from John Dower’s remarkable‘Embracing Defeat’…
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