Christopher Fox

Photo monochrome où seules les teintes bleues subsistent. Au premier plan, un banc urbain se détache devant un champ fraîchement labouré. À l’horizon, la lisière d’un bois se découpe sous un ciel blanc. Au pied du banc, un objet bleu oublié attire le regard.

Champ du banc perdu

Ange Postecoglou, the Liz Truss of football management.

Dear Mr Trump, announcing something is not the same as it happening.

‘They must have built it at night for it to look this good.’

9 years ago a man came up to me outside Cologne Cathedral and told me that the Rothschilds had decided that George Osborne was the next UK Prime Minister.

I knew it was Boccherini too

Reassuring to see that the traditions of 70s socialism can still be revived. No mass movement is complete until its membership is reduced to a single person.

‘Your name?’
‘Jeremy Corbyn.’
‘Your specialist subject?’
‘Self-aggrandising factionalism.’

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Great North Run medals show Sunderland instead of Newcastle Medals given to participants use an image of Sunderland, which has no connection to the event.

Gotta love a typo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Researchers closing in on how to release microbrew IPA on cassette.

Shocking! 36% of all film fans are joyless cinephobes! Boo!

There’s no ‘we’ at Old Trafford, just a handful of millionaires and their customers.

Like a well oiled machine

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A drum solo so long that Rick Wakeman used to have a curry delivered to pass the time

Sofia Jernberg, vocalist One Pitch: Birds for Distortion and Mouth Synthesizers September 6, 2016 at Roulette in Brooklyn www.resonantbodiesfestival.org Sofia Jernberg - One Pitch - Resonant Bodies Festival NYC 2016

This is a good way to greet a new month: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDI...

Burglar Bill was a big favourite for my children (but failed to tempt them into a life of crime).

Hildegard of Bingen enjoys a scalp massage from Cthulhu while she repairs a convent radiator

YouTube video by Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy John Cage: Melody No. 4 / Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Music for a summer morning m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlaT...

Covering the small boats 'deal' without referencing Macron's irrefutably accurate observation that blame for the 'crisis' lies with Brexit involves contortions so violent that the people doing it should be in a circus.

The problem is the drivers not the signs.

Unless I’m missing something, Labour have done some pretty good things both at home and internationally in their first year - certainly the last year much better then prior 14 - so interesting how negative the media and commentary are

Taking my girlfriend to see Last Tango in Paris was not well received by her dad when we got back to her parental home.

Centuries, minutes later, one might ask / How the hilt of a sword wandered so far from the smithy. / And somewhere they will sing: 'Like chaff we were borne / In the wind.' This is the wind in a field of corn. (Wind, James Fenton)

10 minutes of tv anywhere else makes one realise how good the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 (even Sky!) are.

Hubris in the face of failure.

Happy Father’s Day!

It’s not too late to gift a Private Eye subscription.

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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣