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Jeremy Cherfas

Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy? | The New Yorker

As Rosalia Vittorini, the head of Italy’s chapter of the preservationist organization docomomo, once said when asked how Italians feel about living among relics of dictatorship: “Why do you think they think anything at all about it?”

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Trump, authenticity and the Tory succession

Interesting piece on, among other things, Jacob Rees-Mogg

 [H]e’s authentic all right, but that will never make him a populist hero — because he’s not faking it.

I suppose things really have come to this.

Jeremy Cherfas

By what insane twisted logic of airport security theatre is it OK to have soft cheese in the hold but not in the cabin? Bereft

Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Limerick Bus Station

Cutting it a bit fine. ETA 15:35, gate closes 16:00

Jeremy Cherfas

It may well be a known bug, but as it isn't my site that is affected, I cannot investigate in any detail. I feel odd about reporting "issues" that don't affect me directly and that I have only witnessed and wondered about. So I just draw attention to them. I haven't seen similar behaviour on my child of Independent Publisher, I don't think.

If anyone is going to report it, I would think it would be you or James

Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into The Mills Inn

A fine welcome for the weary traveller, and the best lamb chops I've had in a good long while. 

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas