‘The Whites Have Become Black’ - David Starkey is a racist Quite why David Starkey was on the Newsnight panel in the first place remains something of a mystery. His specialism is the Tudo...
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thunderstruck9 : > Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953), Sérénade au clair de > lune - Venise . Pastel on paper on > board, 56.5 x 81.2 cm.
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c86 : > LEGO advertisements, 1980-82 >
johnthelutheran : > Same. I feel…..seen
northernwinedregs : > Hi brain, you obstinate fucker. I drank the clear splashy stuff. I > ate the green things. I went under that bright fucker up there. I > did the...
pervocracy : > I love that Disney princesses have such iconic designs that I > probably don’t even need to explain myself right now.
johnthelutheran : > Finished #reading On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth > Century > , > by Timothy Snyder. > > The Amazon description quotes Snyder’s intro...
David Goodhart’s much-discussed book attempts to cover a lot of ground in a relatively short (233 pages) space. However, even allowing for this I find his analysis thin. Goodhart frames his a...
goingmedieval : > 532 - The Nika riots kill > tens of thousands of people in Constantinople in just over a week > (!), and destroy half the city. > 598 - The Chine...
Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold. Don’t dance in glass slippers, crystal carving up your toes – be a barefoot Amazon ...
I try to find you, yet you are not here. I’ve studied absence, fought to fill it in – courage comes easier with a grasp of why. A secret’s camouflaged when unconcealed. I chose to not se...
Prosecco is wonderful. But not as wonderful as gin.
fleurdulys : > St Mark’s, Venice - Helen Allingham > > 1921
> THE RAINS had come, the rains had gone, and the sun was back on its > throne like an absolute monarch kept off it for a week by his > subjects’ barricades, and�...
> “I got me such a name that King Henry III summoned me one day to > discover from me if the memory which I possessed was natural or > acquired by magic art. I ...
The standard comparison when speaking disparagingly of bureaucratic systems is Kafka, or a maze, perhaps. The re-organised Job Centre however, merits a whole new simile - it has become oddly akin...
furtho : > Paul Klee’s Lagoon City, 1932 (via phaidon.com > )
johnthelutheran : > The more I think about it, the more disturbing I find this Steve > Bell cartoon > > about the Ken Livingstone “antisemitism” debacle > . > >�...
catonhottinroof : > Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer > > Minerva Grey-eyed Minerva, indeed. Captures perfectly Minerva’s/Athene’s key attributes of thoughtful concern and ‘do not mess’.
A lot of the work I do at volunteering is rather routine, albeit undoubtedly worthwhile: challenging sanctions, for example, often consists either of showing that the DWP’s assertion isn’t tr...