Don't put this on X. If Musk sees it we'll never hear the end of it.

It's worth it. Significant collection of his work. Pretty easy to get to.

Will you have time to come over to east London? There's the Red House and his childhood home.

Also weird to see it as purely fir the benefit of MPs. It's our Parliament.

These types of arguments will never land, though. If the numbers are so small it should be possible to solve the problem.

A boat. Like that's going to protect him from my submarine.

A generation after Duccio, Pietro Lorenzetti's Altenburg Diptych (see fig. 106) demonstrates how the Virgin's sorrowful gaze, as she holds her son in the left wing of the diptych, might look towards his future, as the Man of Sorrows, shown in the right wing.

Because he's most unpopular with the libs? And anything that upsets them must be good? That's the best I can come up with.

Starmer should be doing so much more. A statement of unequivocal solidarity with the Canadians is what the country wants.

Is that the Declaration of Independence in the background? The contrast is rather striking.

Just think of all the tax you'd save and you'd only be 15 metres under the North Sea.

I may be an imbecile but I'm a high grade imbecile

Because he always says yes

Eliot's original title! Obvs.

Dickens' original title for the Waste Land was "he do the police in different voices". Sloppy's mothers' praise for her son.

The text is awful though. Largely irrelevant opinion presented as fact. Is it an assured military triumph? Does it romanticise the soldier? The final sentence: so what?

Orwell pointed out that Dickens was always sketchy about what doing a job entailed. I don't think he knew or cared what someone who worked in the City actually did.

I think this has been said about every PM or close candidate for PM i can remember.

Knew someone who called his cats things like Dave or Pete or Helen. Changed the whole human/cat relationship somehow

Don't blame yourself. At the time British music was notorious for being stuck in the past, late Romantic compared to the high modernism of the continent. One critic, frustrated with the way it insisted on evoking the pastoral, called it cowpat music.

The historian Marina Warner was there. She was a reporter and just stumbled into it. She talked about it in her book Alone of All Her Sex. It's a fascinating account.

Only while talking to Bernard Berenson wearing a cape.

This is the problem, though. Trump shouts and threatens until an organization begins to change its behaviour to please him. Trump sees this works and comes back for more.

When you look at an artifact from the past, you come away knowing more than you did before. To deny that to yourself is one thing. But to wreck a work of art so that future generations can't learn from the thing you carelessly threw away, is something I will never understand.

There's no reason why a work of art should be altered. No reason why we shouldn't be able to see what the artist intended. People have always resisted vandalising art. It's what we do.

Have they all agreed this is the uniform they have to wear?

So did Spike Milligan. Surprising proportion of his jokes contain socks. British army socks were particularly amusing.

Remember reading about US soldiers in Europe somewhere during the war. The consensus among them was that America needed a huge Navy before anything else to stop them getting into this mess.

I guess there's different ways to measure it, but wasn't the Royal Navy the largest up to 1940? It was the Two Ocean Navy Act following the fall of France that saw the growth of the US navy.