Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This (in Chapter 13) struck me as particularly apt. 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Well this stopped me in my tracks (from David Runiciman, The Cult of Longevity, the LRB 23rd July)… 110
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This beauty arrived today courtesy of @humanaqvi.bsky.social and the offices of @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - thanks to both 020
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The language here is so overblown. No one was sent to a gulag & shot. No one is in emergency A&E. 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It has a slogan! ‘Cherishing, liberty, and identity - One page at a time’. Grammar, not so much. 110
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And Roger Scruton’s estate loaned her some books. I suspect that The Hungarian Conservative that she proudly sells is not long for this world. 110
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Well, that bookshop is quite something. ‘Britain’s ONLY fully licensed, common sense bookshop’ where an old Enoch Powell biography is a best seller… 210
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Not 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) 110
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Amsterdam. The least romantic place for a love lock. 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Gorgeous woodcut cover at my local charity bookshop 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 18/04/2026A fabulous display of Jane’s Aircraft books (from 1949 onwards) at the FARA charity bookshop in Teddington 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This 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 030
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026My partner’s daughter saw this in Buenos Aires.. 020
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026About Venezuela in today’s FT. It surprise me. 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Sorting some old magazines & I came across this stylish cover. 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026From an old New Yorker piece (2020) by Alex Ross. This quote by Thomas Mann has so much salience today: 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This Carlyle quote in Tony Judt’s 2005 ‘Postwar’ seems especially apposite at the moment 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Saw this at the National Portrait Gallery. Leigh Bowery at peace, perhaps asleep. Goodnight all. 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Aside from the use of ‘expat’ (as, heaven forbid, Brits could never, ever be ‘migrants’), might Brexit be a teeny-weeny factor in this? 140
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Saw 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. 000
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Brighton. What is a Fresh Pint? And is it served in wine glasses? 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Some good news?Graphic from the FT - impressive figures for the UK (the absence of figures from France might alter that) 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Bizarrely the same store is selling half price Lindt reindeer while simultaneously selling full price Lindt bunnies - in December! 020
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I was not expecting to see a picture of Gramsci in sleepy Teddington (in the window of an antique shop) this morning 020
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Depressed to see a nationalised railway offering me a subscription to the Telegraph. 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 19/10/2025The FT’s ‘Sustainability Special’ this weekend includes an advert for this monster. Deep sigh. 020
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Four 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. 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 02/10/2025In Ham (South West London) today. I suspect this wasn’t expressing ardent support for the impending game against Wales. 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 23/08/2025But are they grown on the fashionable side? (Waitrose, Richmond) 010
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social · 21/08/2025One of the many amazing stories from John Dower’s remarkable‘Embracing Defeat’… 010