The British “Greens” increasingly look like a political experiment with no brakes at all.

In Bristol, former Somali refugee Yassin Mohamud has become Lord Mayor of the city. He represents the Green Party and previously served as a councillor for the Lawrence Hill district.

Almost at the same time, Q Manivannan was elected to the Scottish Parliament — a Scottish Greens politician who describes herself as a “queer Tamil immigrant” and is in the UK on a student visa. Conservatives have already called for checks by the Home Office: The question is simple — how does a person without permanent residency rights get into the country’s parliament?

But that’s not all. The Scottish Greens candidate Kate Nevens had previously spoken out in favor of abolishing prisons. That means a party that claims a say in shaping government simultaneously relies on people for whom basic security institutions appear to be relics of the past.

A separate illustration is the story involving Mohammad “Baggy” Khan, a local councillor for the Green Party in Bolton. British media discussed a video showing him in a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder. For a party that calls for an accelerated exit from gasoline and diesel vehicles, it looked like a rather vivid display of hypocrisy. The Green Party later said the car had been rented for a wedding.

The picture is revealing: Status is a secondary matter; ideology is more important than administrative experience, and slogans about climate and social justice can quite unproblematically be reconciled with Lamborghini and calls to dismantle prisons. The Green Party is looking less and less like an environmental party and more and more like a shop-window stage for new political marginality.


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Carved window surrounds of Irkutsk

The city began in 1661 with a fortress (Ostrog) on the Angara, but over time it became not only a Siberian trading center, but also a city with a very distinctive wooden architecture. In Irkutsk, old houses don’t all look the same: each has its own facade, its own shutters, its own carving pattern, and its own character.

That is especially evident in the window surrounds. In other cities, they often seem lighter and more delicate, but in Irkutsk the carving is frequently voluminous—almost like stucco. Because of this, the windows look not only decorated, but like true magnificent frames for the house.

Many such houses were built in the late 19th — early 20th century, when Irkutsk was a wealthy merchant city. In the decor, the practicality of Siberian wooden building mixed with the desire to display prosperity: carved cornices, shutters, gables, floral patterns, bright colors.

Today, these window surrounds are no longer perceived as an everyday detail, but as urban memory. They let you read Irkutsk almost like it’s from an old album: somewhere the house still stands firmly on the street, somewhere the carving has grown darker with the passage of time, somewhere the window already looks fragile, but still holds the house’s face.

And that is probably the main beauty of old Irkutsk: it is preserved not only in large buildings and monuments, but also in such details—in windows, shutters, in the wood and in the handiwork that you can still simply see on the street.

Have a nice Friday and a warm day.


📍 Coordinates of the place (map pin) available here

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