The Dabbler

Culture blog for connoisseurs of everything. Tweeting oddities and wonder. Join the famous Dabbler Book Club to get free books.

[The Dabbler @TheDabblerBlog]

Found this book at home - great to see ducks finally get what's coming to them...

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

I'm SO glad I never had to learn English as a foreign language. This *looks* like nine consecutive nouns.

[The Dabbler @TheDabblerBlog]

@matosman Inarticulateratenessacy, pretty sure.

[The Dabbler @TheDabblerBlog]

@ajarrodkimber Everyone agrees it was out. But it was also blatantly crap not to rescind the appeal. It was literally 'unsporting' because it was an exploitation of technical rules that have nothing to do with the sporting spectacle that people had paid to see (the battle beteeen bat & ball)

[John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson]

I notice that the masterpiece-in-waiting that is Empty Wigs by #JonathanMeades needs four more pledges to fund. 900 pages of demonic invention - an alternative history of the 20th century. Rabelais re-written by Pynchon and lit by Goya. Thank me later.
https://t.co/i0vLD6eP8z

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Bill Wyman hands his notice in to join the Rolling Stones, and his boss, Stanley Unwin, isn't happy.

This will bring you deep joy.

[The Spectator @spectator]

A tribute to my brother, Jeremy Clarke

✍️ James Clarke

https://t.co/RiWDScqCWS

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Jeremy Clarke, one of the most loved columnists in the history of The Spectator, died this morning.

For 22 years his Low Life column proved that any life, no matter how humble, can be riveting - if the writing is good enough.
https://t.co/inujMG5lYM

[The Spectator @spectator]

Jeremy Clarke died this morning at his home in France. For 23 years, his column was, for many readers, one of the highlights of the magazine. Here is a brief selection of the best of Low Life:

https://t.co/gClNrVFrQY

[John Self is now on Bluesky @john_self]

If you’re new to Amis, I also wrote this ranking of his novels a few years ago. Doesn’t include Inside Story of course, but was it really a novel? (No. No it wasn’t.)

https://t.co/vtvH8HCnoS

[Essayful @Essayful]

Jorge Luis Borges on the depth and beauty of the English language (1977)

“To live down something, to live up to something. You can’t say those things in Spanish; they can’t be said.”

[Zoë Crowther @zoenora6]

For anyone who doesn’t have TikTok: there’s a trend at the moment where people are romanticising their lives by editing them like Wes Anderson and it’s honestly so creative and wholesome

🧵👇 Here are a few of my favourite ones

[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

Delighted to see that there are now once again paperbacks of Empire of Booze available: https://t.co/HJGVn9C84P

[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

Is it a wise move for Scotch whisky companies to remove the aura of reverence around their product while jacking up prices? Latest thing on my substack. https://t.co/qdYQeujK6i

[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

I have started a substack about drink, history and culture. Please do sign up, it will make me feel important and you'll get something interesting to read once a week. 1st up something on Dao, Salazar and John Le Carre. https://t.co/XbRNlF33er

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Newspaper reading rooms played an important role in people's lives. It's where private ads could be read in privacy and local news shared. John Kenneth Long depicts this admirable tradition in 'The Reading Room, Barnsley, South Yorkshire,' from the 1950s.

[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

Delighted to be officially drinks correspondent for the Critic and I have my own cartoon - a long held dreamed has been fulfilled.

[The Dabbler @TheDabblerBlog]

@matosman (or Bruce Springsteen's?)
Excellent as always, anyway

[Dan Jackson @northumbriana]

@holland_tom @TheRestHistory @LucyLethbridge Here’s how the 13th Duke of Bedford managed without a gentleman���s gentleman.