blue blacks on the london landscape. the british government puts out these blue discs. these blue plaques on historic sites of all kinds. not just in london, but particularly in london. they re also other parts of the country of course. some of the these historic plaques are exactly what you would think. exactly what you would imagine. winston churchill, 1874 to 1960, five prime minister who lived in died here. or this one, mahatma gandy, 1869 to 1948. who lived here as a law student. francis bacon. painter, lived and worked. her 1961 1992. lady diana spencer, princess diana, lived here. so, some of them wrote exactly did imagine. if you know anything about british history. some are a little bit more surprising where this little bit harder to guess. this is one i featured in the new york times not long ago. that commemorates the discovery of the cato street conspiracy.
if you ve ever been to london or if you re like me and you basically spend every waking hour you re not working, eating, sleeping or fishing watching british crime dramas set in london, which is what i do now because i m a middle-aged childless lesbian anyway, whether you ve been to london or spent a lot of time in london in your mind, you might have noticed these blue plaques on the london landscape. the british government puts up these blue disks, these blue plaques on historic sites of all kind not just in london. and some of these historic plaques are exactly what you d think, exactly what you d imagine. winston churchill 1874-1965, prime minister, lived and died here. or this one. lived here as a law student. francis bacon, participator,
lettuce and they put googly eyes and a weighten oit, and this was a live stream. it was a proverbial race to see if liz truss would last longer as prime minister or would the lettuce last in terms of its shelf life, which one would last longer. the lettuce outlasted liz truss. she was out before two months was up. so it was a narrow window of time, liz truss. but in the midst of that narrow window of time a big new historic blue plaque was put up on a house in london, and it looked just like one of those famous blue plaques you see marking historic sites all over england except it was really oversized. you can tell it s not made of metal. and what it says is the u.k. economy was crashed here, 55 toughten street, september 23, 2022. it was the day liz truss had