Thursday, 5 July 2018
Sunday, 1 July 2018
Fortitude in high heels
Fortitude Sculpture by Serpotta in white stucco and gilding, height 200 cm, 1710-17.
Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico, Palermo. Image: WGA
Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico, Palermo. Image: WGA
Elegantly dressed for the life she wants,
in her favourite high-heeled shoes, breastplate bodice
and plumed headdress,
Fortitude leans her elbow on the pillar of patience,
never keeping her eyes off the longest battle.
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She doesn't like what she sees, but she will never give in, she will never be part of it, even when other people make snarky remarks about her posing in her Rococo niche.
She exemplifies the moral courage of sticking to her post "because it is noble to do so, or because it is disgraceful not to do so."
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Option 4
The Government's own Department for Exiting the EU has concluded that the best option for the United Kingdom's economy and people's jobs is to remain.
Our elected representatives have shown themselves incompetent to act in our interests. Members of Parliament have undermined Parliamentary democracy by handing more power to the executive.
Now that everyone has more information about the consequences of leaving the EU, we, the People, should be allowed a say on the final deal.
A new People's Vote would not be a second EU Referendum.
It would be the third EU Referendum since 1975, when the majority voted in favour of remaining.
Brexit is still legally reversible.
We can still save our country and all our futures.
There should be an Option to Remain.
Over 300,000 people have signed
the Petition for A People's Vote
PLEASE MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER BY SIGNING AND SHARING IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY
the Petition for A People's Vote
PLEASE MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER BY SIGNING AND SHARING IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY
Monday, 25 June 2018
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Rose tiara
Rose Tiara, Me Too Era © PJR
This ghostly exuberance, this rose-pink nostalgia, pink, the colour of ironic femininity and about-to-be-lost illusions, knowing and sweet; this decaying crown of experience in the benighted, bee-endangered, Brexit semi-coma, is the last shout of beauty on the edge of dying.
On the edge of good taste, too, some would say. Such overt flirtation and florid excess, such abandonment to the moment, such tender voluptuousness, too fragile to touch; their éclat is not for all seasons.
Performance at this level is exhausting. Tomorrow, or the day after, their lovely faces will shrivel, shrink from their reflections, and shed fragrant tears, little pink silk sheets littering the floor, until they are bald. I owe them the courtesy of hiding them before anyone else sees them like that.
On my last English mantelpiece, the flush of full-blown roses looks dimmed, as if an interfering prig has veiled a group of over-dressed, over-scented, over-the-top fifty-something women at a party long ago, their magnificent defiance muted into memory -
nah, old pink roses will be back screaming and shouting at you from somewhere next year.
Monday, 11 June 2018
The ultimate measure of a hero
"I am 96 years old and I hope that you will join us when we march on 23 June for the future of Britain as part of Europe"
Click for video of Brigadier Stephen Goodall
The ultimate measure of a man is…where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Friday, 8 June 2018
MARCH
MARCH ON 23 JUNE
because if "parliament votes for a hard Brexit, then a people's vote is the last hope of saving us all."
"because I think the no-Brexit position could win."
"But please God, let there be no other referendum ever again: never forget the near-mortal damage done to Britain by an irrevocable vote on an unfathomably complex question.
"Instead, trust in general elections to throw the bastards out when they get things wrong."
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
MARCH FOR THE PEOPLE'S VOTE
ON SATURDAY 23 JUNE
AT 12PM
PALL MALL-WESTMINSTER
March to save our country's future and restore rational democratic government.
This moment defines us all. March to take back control and save us from destructive Brexit.
ON SATURDAY 23 JUNE
AT 12PM
PALL MALL-WESTMINSTER
March to save our country's future and restore rational democratic government.
This moment defines us all. March to take back control and save us from destructive Brexit.
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Saturday, 2 June 2018
Wake up to Totalitarian Britain
"Live with Brexit or find somewhere else to live."
Iain Duncan Smith, Wednesday, 31 May, 2018
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Iain Duncan Smith, Wednesday, 31 May, 2018
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Friday, 1 June 2018
Friday, 18 May 2018
The Levee of the Great High King
The Universe, O my brothers, is flinging wide its portals
for the Levee of the GREAT HIGH KING.
Thomas Carlyle, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
for the Levee of the GREAT HIGH KING.
Thomas Carlyle, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
After the attrition of thirty humdrum
years, he no longer loved her for her human qualities. He still found
her attractive because she was as self-possessed as a cat. Observed or
unobserved, wherever she was, she behaved the same, with the same rhythm
and attention, a graceful kind of selfishness, true to herself, if not
to him.
Watching her brushing her hair,
applying ineffable creams to her face and body, swiping her tablet as if
it were a mirror to her other, secret selves, or eating her small
helpings of balanced meals at the same table as him without once looking
at him, he felt he barely existed.
He was not offended.
He admired her independence and indifference to other people’s petty jealousies.
When she came home in the small hours, without telling him where she had been,
he knew better than to ask.
She was her own damned cat.
He was not offended.
He admired her independence and indifference to other people’s petty jealousies.
When she came home in the small hours, without telling him where she had been,
he knew better than to ask.
She was her own damned cat.
On balance, he suspected that she
wasn’t having sex with anyone else. She felt entitled to go where she
pleased and would despise him for thinking badly of her. Honi soit qui
mal y pense.
Showing his age, he preferred to think of the ancient chivalric motto in Sellar and Yeatman’s translation: “Honey, your silk stocking’s hanging down”.
So that’s what he said to her, and she smiled.
Noëlle Mackay, HUMAN RITES
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Showing his age, he preferred to think of the ancient chivalric motto in Sellar and Yeatman’s translation: “Honey, your silk stocking’s hanging down”.
So that’s what he said to her, and she smiled.
Noëlle Mackay, HUMAN RITES
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Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Sunday, 15 April 2018
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
What, in our house?
BRITAIN IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT,
IN DENIAL
Something has gone very wrong in our country,
and like a terminally ill person in denial of their mortality, about
half the British public aren’t admitting it. Such things don’t happen in
Britain, they believe. It’s only other nations that commit atrocities,
build concentration camps, persecute innocent people. “It wouldn’t
happen here”.
It is happening here.
“What, in our house?” enquired Lady Macbeth, on hearing of the murder of King Duncan, which she had just instigated.,,,Read full post
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Reblog: CHRIS GREY'S BREXIT BLOG
The Brexit Blog: A year into Article 50, unreality permeates Brexit...
So we have a policy that at least half the country, and most parliamentarians, think is a mistake or worse being prosecuted with a level of ineptitude without parallel in modern British political history. It is regarded with incredulity by our friendsand allies, and with glee by our enemies.Its main and most vociferous advocate sscarcely bother to defend it anymore, and it is based upon a narrow majority that is increasingly looking to have been secured by a deeply flawed process.
In the meantime, probably irreparable damage is being done to the economy, to our geo-political standing, to the civility of our political discourse and, the greatest human cost, to the lives of the millions of EU-27 nationals living in Britain and British nationals in the EU-27. Having predicated their lives, livelihoods and relationships, entirely reasonably, on freedom of movement and all that goes with it they remain in an agonizing limbo.
Friday, 16 March 2018
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