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?
Sunday, 26 March 2017
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
Monday, 13 March 2017
The air in my country
“The air in my country is very foul”
Ian McEwan, at a press conference in Barcelona, March, 2017
Pieter Breughel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562
Oil on oak, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Image: WGA
Oil on oak, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Image: WGA
"Now is not the time to obstruct the will of the people" Theresa May in the House of Commons, 2017.
"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs." Robespierre, in a speech to the National Convention, 1794.
Maximilien Robespierre, oil on canvas by Pierre-Roch Vigneron, 1786; in the Museum of French History, Palace of Versailles. Image: Britannica.com The embodiment of the people 's will, and the exponent of State terrorism: Maximilien Robespierre, smiling his sweet megalomaniac's smile, before the Revolution.
We are being bullied into acquiescence with a disastrous rupture with Europe. Our economy and civilization are being degraded, people we love might be torn from us, and we are told to be silent.
Brexit is being imposed upon us in a reign of Terror, in which dissent is suppressed and the rule of law threatened.
"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil." Robespierre.
"Enemies of the people"
Daily Mail denouncing the judges of the High Court who upheld Gina Miller's case for parliamentary sovereignty.
Daily Mail denouncing the judges of the High Court who upheld Gina Miller's case for parliamentary sovereignty.
Our centuries' old representative parliamentary democracy is broken, smashed under the weight of public opinion polls and political opportunism.
This is not democracy; this is authoritarianism.
If you don't like Brexit, and you love your country, don't shut up. Never stop protesting.
“It is the right of those of us who voted to remain 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, March, 2017
Ian McEwan, March, 2017
Detail from The Rape of Europa, bronze by Il Riccio (Andreo Briasco), 1520.
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. Image: WGA
IF ONLY IT WAS A BAD DREAM
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. Image: WGA
Great Britain self-destructs:
IF ONLY IT WAS A BAD DREAM
DON'T LEAVE, TIFFANY
DOING THE MACARENA TO CATASTROPHE
ALFRED'S DOOMS
48-52
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