Wessie du Toit
@wessiedutoit
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Writer. Interested in design, aesthetics, history. Weekly essays at https://t.co/Ajh3OgaIMz
London, England
Joined October 2013
RT @artinsociety: US Impressionist Daniel Garber plays with light and shadows in ‘The Old Mill’ (1921)
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RT @PhilipRutnam: Our amazing inheritance of 20,000 historic churches is in great peril. My letter in @guardian
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RT @ChristophCanne: Ein Skandal, den niemand im Wahlkampf thematisiert: Um milliardenschwere Strafzahlungen durch die EU Kommission zu ve…
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RT @AndrewOrlowski: A must read (from @wessiedutoit ) Good not only on the mind-numbing conformity and predictability of The Mansards, but…
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RT @RobGMacfarlane: Research out today finds English “water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by fossil f…
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The Chagos affair is fascinating because it represents the exact opposite to Trump's foreign policy. One brazenly rejects rules and conventions for a crude vision of national interest. The other brazenly rejects national interest for a crude vision of rules and conventions.
Exclusive from @georgegrylls Sir Keir Starmer intends to 'push ahead' with deal to cede sovereignty to Chagos Islands and has offered significant concessions Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius's new prime minister, said his country has been offered 'complete sovereignty' of Diego Garcia, home to a critical US military base He claimed that Starmer has effectively doubled the £9bn originally offered to Mauritius and weakened the British lease for Diego Garcia He said the new deal will frontload instalments and link them to inflation. He also said that Mauritius will now have a right to veto extending the lease He also revealed that Lord Hermer, the attorney-general, was involved in the latest round of face-to-face negotiations
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RT @Steven_Swinford: Exclusive from @georgegrylls Sir Keir Starmer intends to 'push ahead' with deal to cede sovereignty to Chagos Island…
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RT @adamcurtisbroll: Influencers record content at a 'content farm' in a rural Chinese neighborhood, October 2024.
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RT @edzitron: I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because De…
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RT @ctbeiser: The organizing ideology of technology remains a kind of right-Maoism, which encourages us to “oppose bureaucratism” and “bomb…
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I see we've reached the familiar "talk about expanding Heathrow and turning Oxbridge into a Silicon Valley" stage in the British government lifecycle.
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RT @jcwilsonauthor: Another excellent, sharply written piece, succinctly anatomizing the architectural transformation of London over the pa…
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