Since a massive amount of distraction is now required to get through a day without exclaiming at the state of things – and because who doesn’t love Angela Lansbury – here’s new favourite Instagram phenomenon, Interiors of Murder She Wrote. Offered in the same-ish spirit as Every Outfit Sex and the City but without any emphasis on clothes, IOMSW brings together three other good things: power interiors from the 80s, Jessica Fletcher and – well ok not exactly good – murder. The latter is not too grisly if that makes you feel any better. See below death in a marble hot tub for more info (spot the big 80s television).

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Death of superclubs and how mine is immortalised in Trainspotting

If you tune into the media coverage of the changing face of just about any city in the UK, you’ll know that for a while superclubs were dominating the category of ‘things developers are murdering to turn into luxury flats’. In London I think Fabric was the most recent to fall fate to this. Roll back […]

Things I have in common with Donald Trump

Wild hair, I suppose. But really it’s desk style. I was amused by this picture in the… yeah… Daily Mail of the Commander in Chief’s desk in Trump Tower. Look at the state of it. Teetering piles of crap everywhere. And here’s mine…

The Art Deco house of dreams

If there’s one overriding feature I noticed about Eltham Palace, it’s that you can feel the parties in the walls. Not just because of the whole Dry January nonsense currently being observed in this house or because English Heritage has set Champagne and glasses on one of the sideboards to fix the mood of a […]

Pablo Bronstein – a fan letter

I went to visit a friend last week, who has transformed his capacious but chilly Victorian living room into a hymn to plants. Exotic cacti and palms and succulents, six deep in the big bay window, some in jangly German pottery, some elevated on stands. A real Sergeant Pepper’s collection of the hippest, life-givingest plants. […]