I keep hoping that someone will back me up in my view that Peter de Polnay is a poor man's Simenon: prolific, yes, but with a fine eye for people at their most venal and hypocritical.
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A photo of an image of Hank Hill from King of the Hill complaining to someone in the Computer Business Centre. University students have added the caption: “ I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer... That I own... In my house.”
Mood.
Escalators !
#London
#photography #art #photo #streetphoto #streetphoto #candidphoto #streetshot #candid #streetphotographer #streetphotography #Street #train #composition #Leica #Q2 #LeicaCamera
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 926: Avoid long descriptions of your characters. No one really cares what the shape of their nose is, or what their jumper is made of, especially when that’s the first thing your readers are learning about them…
"This is an important thing to think about."
An atmoshperic painting of Logan's Rock at night. A smoo rock formation overlooks a calm bay, eith the moonlit sea as still as a millpond. 'Logan's Rock, Cornwall' by Laura Knight, (1916)
Tonight's goodnight image is 'Logan's Rock, Cornwall', Laura Knight, oil on canvas, 1916. Sleep tight.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
I couldn't resist having another go at painting a barn owl hunting at night.....
Happy Tuesday x
#watercolour #barnowl #atmosphere #flight #birds
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
This is just unconscionable.
No one is illegal, & the bar to obtaining asylum is high. Reversing an asylum decision would be hideously cruel & threatening to do so would leave ppl in a horrendous situation of insecurity.
I'm writing my own eulogy because I don't want my family to say I was a control freak.
Whenever I encounter someone who believes in using the Oxford comma, I find myself encouraged, delighted, and hopeful.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anaïs Nin
The Blue Door (1927)
🎨 Raymond Wintz
What a surprise!
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Fred Cuming was considered one of the finest landscape painters of his generation. Much of his work celebrates southern English coastlines; the sea and skies of Hastings, Rye or Camber as here, illuminated by dawn, dusk, or glowing moonlight.
The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.
Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...
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I wonder how many other Men-of-the-People
had to exist on
"£970,000 from non-parliamentary work since he became an MP in 2024"
"on top of the £93,000 he earns as an MP"
"Latest MP declarations show Nigel Farage is earning an absolutely insane amount"
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Revealed: #Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch – Byline Times share.google/RdQBWEYjZNtm...
It might be a start if someone tells Kemi Badenoch that talking fast, without a pause and over the interviewer is not the best way to persuade the listener she is talking sense.
A slightly stylised view of the Castle rising up through trees with distant hills, a blue sky and fluffy clouds, rosy in the evening light
A vibrant proof copy of SR Badmin‘s Ludlow Castle travel poster
Howled at this.
RIP Moya Brennan 1952-2026
Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
May Herne the Hunter guide you home
Dear Lisa Nandy.
Small Indy publishers bring millions into the UK.
In the past 2 years Bluemoose has had 2 books adapted for BBC Two TV series.
The Gallows Pole by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
How about promoting the Lit Fiction sector?
"The Light Years" - Elizabeth Jane Howard
That is Trump’s (Putin’s) entire mission.
Three men in cloth caps, probably coal miners, with Durham Castle and Cathedral in the background, photo by Ian Berry, 1974 (Magnum).