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
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