Showing posts with label Charles I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles I. Show all posts

Monday, 25 March 2019

Tyranny

"So Theresa May will not promise to accept the will of our democratically elected Parliament when we vote on Brexit options - but she will carry out the result of an advisory referendum, won through cheating and lies, regardless of the cost to the country." David Lammy, 25 March, 2019

Lorenzettiambrogio Effects of badgovernent

Lorenzetti THE EFFECTS OF BAD GOVERNMENT 1337 -39, Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace) Siena. Image: WGA

"May is making a very straightforward argument that the will of the executive is more important that the will of parliament. I had always thought that Oliver Cromwell had settled that argument with Charles I in a fairly conclusive manner." Craig Murray, 25 March, 2019

triumphofpoverty

Lucas Vorsterman TRIUMPH OF POVERTY c. 1624 -30 Pen in brown, with gray and brown wash,
black and red chalks, and white highlights, British Museum, London. Image source: WGA

Monday, 14 September 2015

Self-promotion of a nakedly political kind

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/naked-self-promotion-of-an-erotic-and-political-kind/
Sir George Villiers and Lady Katherine Manners as Venus and Adonis 
by Van Dyck c. 1620. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Image WGA