Andrew Cusack
@cusackandrew
Writer, school governor, charity trustee, volunteer w/ @orderofmaltaGB | Southwark. Formerly of New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, the Western Cape.
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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” — Kenneth Clark
The intricate imperial world of Zohran Mamdani — Bombay, Kampala, Cape Town, and Manhattan… …and when the mayors of London and New York City were actual brothers: andrewcusack.substack.com/p/zohran-child…
I love that building a railroad across the one flat part of the American West has proven a completely impossible task for the descendants of those who built a railway across all the wavy bits in the 1860's
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland (1922-1999). 🇺🇸💪🧑🏭🔨🏗️ Against the advice of Carter's administration, Kirkland sent direct help to Poland's Solidarity union in the 1980s. The Polish government now endows the Lane Kirkland Scholarship Program bringing young students to Poland.
Pretty standard train journey into Cambridge this morning. My seat neighbours are between them reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; an obscure Dutch translation of Dante (she's not Dutch); and the score to Tristan und Isolde
BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams has blown every bridge into Manhattan. "I tried to reason with you New York, but I see that has fallen on deaf ears. I am your mayor. I always have been your mayor. I always will be."
He was one of the best, too.
When you think about it, it's pretty wild that a half-Italian half-Jewish Protestant Episcopalian freemason and former Socialist congressman became the twelve-year Republican mayor of the great city of New York.
Went from a Requiem Mass in the chapel of the Palace of Westminster to neighbourhood fireworks in Southwark celebrating the deliverance of the King’s most excellent Majesty from the Gunpowder Plot.
When you think about it, it's pretty wild that a half-Italian half-Jewish Protestant Episcopalian freemason and former Socialist congressman became the twelve-year Republican mayor of the great city of New York.
Feed this into my veins:
"De Drie Schopjes" in #Alkmaar (Noord-Holland), built in 1609 and restored in 1882, features a richly ornamented stepped gable crowned by a pinnacle. Natural stone abounds in drip courses, blocks, bands, and the fillings of recessed arch fields. The central bay has a…
I love Paris but it would have been so much better to keep the old medieval city and build a new town like Edinburgh x.com/CharmOfCulture…
De mooiste preekstoel van Nederland staat in de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam. Albert Jansz Vinckenbrinck (1604-1664) werkte van 1649 tot 1664 aan de houten preekstoel, die hij zeer rijk versierde met houtsnijwerk van engelen en personificaties. Het is een meesterwerk.
They exist to persecute; the vampires of the workplace, Dracula without the class.
There are now more HR workers than lawyers or doctors in the UK. How did a job – once a back-office function – become so central to the UK workplace? I’ve investigated in today’s Sunday Times Magazine…🧵
For two millennia (or nearly) Southwark has been the threshold of London. Across these many centuries, three themes have shaped the history of this most ancient of boroughs: travel, spiritual devotion, and merriment. [Link below]
![cusackandrew's tweet image. For two millennia (or nearly) Southwark has been the threshold of London.
Across these many centuries, three themes have shaped the history of this most ancient of boroughs: travel, spiritual devotion, and merriment.
[Link below]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2p9lzEWkAAriVy.jpg)
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