Friday, 29 December 2017
Monday, 25 December 2017
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Sunday, 10 December 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
Sunday, 3 December 2017
Re-unite or Self-destruct
Humans are selfish by instinct, like all animals. We are narcissistic, like no other animal. We reason, like no other animal. We squander our natural gifts, like no other animal. We are cruel, like no other animal. We have more regrets than any other animal.
We cannot bring the people we love back to life but we can make at least one sensible decision for the common good before we die. (Noelle Mackay)
VOTE REMAIN IN ANOTHER EU REFERENDUM
(the third, not second, since 1975)
We cannot bring the people we love back to life but we can make at least one sensible decision for the common good before we die. (Noelle Mackay)
VOTE REMAIN IN ANOTHER EU REFERENDUM
(the third, not second, since 1975)
Saturday, 2 December 2017
Friday, 1 December 2017
Thursday, 30 November 2017
STOP THE BUS
It is still legally possible to
STOP BREXIT
if the people tell the Government to
STOP BREXIT
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Monday, 27 November 2017
Sunday, 26 November 2017
CONDEMNED BY HISTORY
"My God. History will condemn this period. It will condemn those who’ve sat back and kept their view to themselves, who haven’t stood up and tried to stop all this nonsense.”
A rare black swan in the dismal swamp of Brexit Parliamentary politics - Anna Soubry:
"I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it."
"It’s like the counter-revolutionary forces of Chairman Mao or Joe Stalin. It’s not enough that you went against everything you ever believed in; you have to sign up in blood. It’s like Orwell’s thought police and the reign of terror combined"
ANNA SOUBRY INTERVIEWED IN THE OBSERVER
A rare black swan in the dismal swamp of Brexit Parliamentary politics - Anna Soubry:
"I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it."
"It’s like the counter-revolutionary forces of Chairman Mao or Joe Stalin. It’s not enough that you went against everything you ever believed in; you have to sign up in blood. It’s like Orwell’s thought police and the reign of terror combined"
ANNA SOUBRY INTERVIEWED IN THE OBSERVER
The unspeakable in full pursuit of the untenable
Stealing off;—or—prudent Secesion by James Gillray, etching, 1798.
Image source: Wikipedia
Image source: Wikipedia
OR
Friday, 24 November 2017
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Monday, 20 November 2017
Saturday, 18 November 2017
Gift of Kings
NATURE’S GREAT MASTERPIECE, AN ELEPHANT (THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING) John Donne
"[I WILL] PUT [MY] DECISION ON HOLD UNTIL SUCH TIME AS I REVIEW ALL .... FACTS” Donald Trump
Friday, 17 November 2017
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The moment we finally failed
William Hogarth, Tail-piece or The Bathos. Image: Wikipedia
Brexit could be “the moment we finally failed as a great nation and became a second or third tier nation”. George Freeman, Chairman of the Conservative Policy Forum, Theresa May's chief political adviser (The Independent)
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Monstrous, Humiliating National Crisis
"A PAINFUL, MONSTROUS NATIONAL CRISIS"
"There is an aspect of national humiliation associated with what is going on. The triggering of article 50 was so monstrously premature." David Miliband, The Guardian.
"There is an aspect of national humiliation associated with what is going on. The triggering of article 50 was so monstrously premature." David Miliband, The Guardian.
Friday, 10 November 2017
The democratic right to change our minds
Lord Cardigan leading the Charge of the Light Brigade
Lord Kerr
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
When the joke is over
When men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect....like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. Jonathan Swift.
“Mrs May condemns Catalonian nationalists for 'a reckless act of separatism' that 'risks casting their people into a wholly unnecessary calamity'.”
(BBC website)
"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom." Socrates
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake." Jonathan Swift
"You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday." Jonathan Swift
“It is the right of those of us who voted to remain [in the European Union] to continue to speak for what we believe is in our country’s best interest and not allow ourselves to be cowed into silence.” Ian McEwan
“Mrs May condemns Catalonian nationalists for 'a reckless act of separatism' that 'risks casting their people into a wholly unnecessary calamity'.”
(BBC website)
"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom." Socrates
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake." Jonathan Swift
Truth Unacknowledged bronze sculpture by Paul Dalou (1838-1902).
Image: WGA
Image: WGA
"You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday." Jonathan Swift
“It is the right of those of us who voted to remain [in the European Union] to continue to speak for what we believe is in our country’s best interest and not allow ourselves to be cowed into silence.” Ian McEwan
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Friday, 27 October 2017
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Sunday, 15 October 2017
Monday, 9 October 2017
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Calais Cat
La Vierge au chat (Madonna of the Cat)
Marble relief by Jacques du Broeucq (c. 1505 – 1584)
Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Image source: WGA
Marble relief by Jacques du Broeucq (c. 1505 – 1584)
Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Image source: WGA
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Monday, 4 September 2017
Saturday, 17 June 2017
Why won't the patient take his medicine?
Will this country die from obstinacy?
Increased support among European nations including UK for EU following Brexit
Cassandra, Cassandra, You're fated to madness, it's out of your hands Destined to say what no one wants to know
Thursday, 8 June 2017
Catatonic
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent.....Plato
Cat Portrait by Martin Hübscher Photography
Friday, 12 May 2017
Friday, 5 May 2017
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
When children don't want to live any more
William Blake Infant Sorrow Illustration to Songs of Experience. Image: Wikipedia
Sunday, 26 March 2017
Give back her future
The New Cosette, marching to Unite for Europe on 25 March, 2017 © Martin Hübscher
If you were young today, how would you be feeling about your future that was decided by your elders in a badly informed opinion poll last year?
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Sunday, 19 March 2017
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Monogamy wars
The darker the times, the lighter the entertainments.
LADY WHILTON'S WEDDING
by Barbara Metzger, read by Pippa Rathborne
available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Portrait of Lieutenant General the Hon. Sir Charles Stewart, K.B., in hussar uniform by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
The 1814 'Londonderry' version of Lawrence's portrait of the future 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, wearing the medal he was awarded for service as a commander in the Peninsular War.
Lawrence was the visual propagandist of Regency romance and glamour. He gave all his sitters the gloss of celebrity makeovers, and made every portrait look like a love affair in paint. Image: Wikipedia
The 1814 'Londonderry' version of Lawrence's portrait of the future 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, wearing the medal he was awarded for service as a commander in the Peninsular War.
Lawrence was the visual propagandist of Regency romance and glamour. He gave all his sitters the gloss of celebrity makeovers, and made every portrait look like a love affair in paint. Image: Wikipedia
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