Monday 25 December 2017

Thursday 30 November 2017

STOP THE BUS

It is still legally possible to
STOP BREXIT

take back control

if the people tell the Government to
STOP BREXIT

The Cost of Leaving

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/the-cost-of-leaving/

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/the-cost-of-leaving/
 

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

The unspeakable in full pursuit of the untenable

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/the-unspeakable-in-full-pursuit-of-the-untenable/
Stealing off;—or—prudent Secesion by James Gillray, etching, 1798.
Image source: Wikipedia
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Saturday 18 November 2017

Sunday 12 November 2017

Monstrous, Humiliating National Crisis

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/monstrous-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.

Tuesday 31 October 2017

When the joke is over


Brexit Photo © MHP
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


Truth Unacknowledged bronze sculpture by Paul Dalou (1838-1902).
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 8 October 2017

Martin's Cat

https://mhphotographysecret.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/self-possession/

Calais Cat

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/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

Wednesday 15 March 2017

Monogamy wars

http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fiction/Lady-Whiltons-Wedding-Audiobook/B06XJ9QWX9

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

https://pipparathborneactress.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/a-battle-for-monogamy/
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