Chris King

Bring back Baroness Hale. She was great!

A brilliantly written incisive and scathing indictment of the current President of the Supreme Court's attitude towards human rights, written by the late great Conor Gearty.

I note that this was published not much more than a month after the author's untimely death.

OMG!! Hope he's OK!

Probably best to keep shtum over the alleged brief liaison between BF and my late half-sister - especially since the latter was known not to always be a reliable source of truthful information, especially when it came to claims she made about her own past!

An "ironclad guarantee" from Trump would be about as useful, and as durable, as a chocolate teapot. Trump has never given a guarantee/made a promise in his life that he hasn't reneged upon/broken as soon as it suits him to do so, usually within days or weeks of giving/making it.

Has he been there at all since the count on election night 2024? If not, he probably can probably no longer remember where it is/how to get there.

Museum embroiled in corruption scandal after priceless artwork resurfaces in auction Painting once deemed a forgery and ‘transferred’ by museum appears at auction at an estimated price of £9.3m

Interesting Chinese art law case: family of donor to state-run museum of Ming Dynasty hand-scroll spot it in auction catalogue and take legal action. Museum's defence: they de-accessioned and disposed of it after post-acquisiton determination that it's a fake: www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

Ireland launches world first scheme to provide basic income for artists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Better then than David Cameron who, when PM, once left his daughter behind, though admittedly that was at a pub near Chequers, not on Epstein's island.

Well over 45 years ago, my sister went to visit her then boyfriend and his family on Guernsey. She was due to fly direct from UK, but missed her flight and had to fly to Alderney and get a local flight from there. The plane was a Britten Norman (Tr)islander. Bad weather. Tiny leaky plane.

YouTube video by Õunaviks Puuluup - Kasekesed (Official Video)

Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/nuqfERAS0Y0?...

The source of his wealth is perhaps not that mysterious when you find out that he was a key player in the birth of cryptocurrency.

Dark tortie cat, lying in shallow cream-colored bed on a wooden table-top.

Schnork looking very cosy in her table-bed. Originally one of those cat-shelves attached to a window, but Scnork turned her nose up at it - too awkward to jump up there and don't think she thought it looked all that she safe, so now it's a table-bed and she loves it! #Caturday

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Years ago, my suburban London rail journey was once delayed by a cow on the line. Not particularly normal for Chiswick!

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

Bryan L Frye's 'Image Reproduction Rights in a Nutshell for Art Historians' may be of some assistance: law.unh.edu/sites/defaul...

Brilliant.

At the university at which I used to teach, there was a senior academic whose emails usually consisted mainly of completely unintelligible gobbledygook. She was a Professor in the School of English.

Enjoy!

I concur. From recollection, having been taught by you some years ago, you are indeed not that bad! The last thing I'd want is to be at some dinner party table with Matt Goodwin, and, oh, I don't know, Liz Truss, for example.

I was merely making the somewhat flippant point that the level of mastery of written/spoken English of some members of the upper classes is not as elevated as they probably consider it to be. I said nothing about the use of "strata" (or "data", "criteria" etc, for that matter) as a singular noun.

Failed the interview for being a shopping channel presenter.

The rise of places that're like pubs (i.e.they serve alcohol) but aren't pubs, coupled with the gradual disappearance of the traditional pub, have added to the queue/not queue confusion. I've 3 microbrewery taprooms near me. In one, punters form a queue when it gets busy. In the other 2, they don't.

The standard of English written and spoken by the upper classes is often shockingly poor. When it comes to spoken English, clear enunciation is often a particular weak point.

My two favourite movie reviews before now was the one word review of the movie adaptation of Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. The review simply read 'Unbearable.' My other favourite was a review of 'A Life Less Ordinary'. The review read simply 'Lifeless. Ordinary.'

A great review, but I respectfully disagree with the reviewer. "No doubt there's a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss". No. No, there isn't.

A "continued rise"? Maybe not. RefUK's opinion poll rating has been declining, slowly but steadily, in recent months.

Bit obscure these days, perhaps, but 'The Sausage Messiah' (biopic about tragic but brilliant early 20thC French sculptor, Henri Gaudier-Sausage).

Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Sausage.