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John Grindrod

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Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Currently researching c20 suburban LGBTQ history. Disappointingly unserious.

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Very much enjoyed the first two seasons of Slow Horses, more than the books actually, it adds a lot more tension and darkness in there. And that cast. Fantastic

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I’m biased…

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Today it is worth mentioning that I wrote a book on the weird history of the green belt, and one on the origins of postwar new towns

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This one’s Epitaph for a Spy, a sunny summer read

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Enjoying my first Eric Ambler

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Latest Substack, on what a 75 year old housing manual can tell us about change johngrindrod.substack.com/p/loose-change

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Something like that

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Beginning to allow myself to be relieved about the election

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Today I look like a thousand year old man

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Had a micro nap of 10 mins. Got jam tarts and tea cakes for a midnight feast. All set.

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Just gouging my eyes out

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If the predicted Portillo moments occur I wonder if we will be inundated with twee TV formats. Rees-Mogg’s Victorian Chimneys, Mordaunt’s Munitions, Sunak’s Follies

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Something something Princess Diana

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I voted so long ago now. It might have been for Ed Miliband or Michael Foot it was so long ago

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A very beautiful set I thought

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LCD Soundsystem doing Dance Yrself Clean at Glastonbury, a rousing reminder of the possibility of good things in the world

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As Elvis Costello sang back in 1978, ‘You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny Wait until they've got you running to the Night Rally’

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I love this Jesse Ware album, that luxury Chic disco hippy Hair funk sound

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Something just lovely about Orbital bringing out Mel C there, a very generous moment

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Flags with Blistered on fluttering in the breeze, Ski Head the anthem of the age.

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Looking forward to Frazier Chorus’s headline set at Glastonbury

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‘Sandra, what’s your position on Biscoff?’ ‘I don’t.’

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Not long before some of the celebrities on Who Do You Think You Are can trace their families right back to someone who appeared on the first series

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This highlights of Glastonbury 2023 has featured two of my favourite brand new songs only just out, There’d Better Be A Mirrorball and The Girl is Crying in Her Latte.

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I passed my Meldrew Point a few months ago

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Accidentally updated my Twitter app to X this morning and am gutted

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Junior sparrow being fed by parent in the garden and it feels too heartwarming for 2024

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I’ve never been able to cope with the angry uppity snark of those forums. It’s a bit sad not to have anyone to geek out with

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Sent my postal vote in. Disappointing lack of dogs.

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I see the betting thing has thrown up another of those amazing ‘It would not be right to comment until Sue Gray has reported her findings’/‘Now Sue Gray has reported her findings it’s time to move on’ scenarios

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It’ll have been SOMETHING won’t it?

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While Sunak will have done lots of preparation for the debate it will later emerge he spent the afternoon biting Dame Judy Dench’s cat on the face

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Thank you love! The interviewees have been incredible

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Submitted my draft manuscript to the publisher. Having a coke zero.

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I have the deeds to the old Blackbird mine here

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One of the things I enjoyed most about Godzilla Minus One was the music was a bit like the dramatic score from Miss Marple when a vintage police car might be chasing another vintage car perhaps containing Peter Davison down a country lane

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Cheers, it was fun to write…

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Tory leadership races these days are a bit like when the soaps went 5x a week

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