Neil Jeffares

Has this been thought through?

That's 19 files I have to update manually on pastellists.com

I'm no expert on MM iconography (I can't even spell Magdalene properly - blame an Oxford education), but I think top right is an oil lamp suspended from a bracket. At the bottom of this, looking like a chess piece, might be a stylized ointment jar (it should be!)

A Mary Magdalen

Do we yet know how much HMG will actually receive from the award given the co is now in administration? (No idea if amounts can be recovered higher up.)

The violin solo from the third of Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Beim Schlafengehn.

Just seeing this on the page turns some people* into a blubbering mess.

*Me. It’s me.

My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Did get it but anyway...
"Maths" is a contraction, and takes no full stop; "math." is an abbreviation, and should have one (even if it doesn't always get its due). same number of keystrokes, so no economy.

I think he's progressed beyond teaching the chosen seed how the heavens and earth first rose out of chaos to how to get back there quick...must be those tablets again

Would have been more effective if Davey had given a specific example like that instead of letting Mason get away with it

What's he gained for UK in tariffs or defence, and was it worth turning a blind eye to genocide?

When he sees that photo I feel sure Humphy Trumpty will devise some new US order of chivalry so that he too can wear more bling. Expect the badge of the order to be gold

Sorry...only £508,000...

Handbag showing a Liotard portrait of an archduchess in pink with the title Marie Antoinette above

I am very much hoping not to be out-bagged at the #MarieAntoinette exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Fresh-to-market painting by Rosalba Carriera to go under the hammer - Cheffins News It will be offered as part of The Fine Sale on 17th September

The Rosalba pastel of Coulson Fellowes (J.21.0511 ) just sold for £520,000, an auction record for the artist
www.cheffins.co.uk/about/news/v...

So?

Men need not apply

have arisen, even if Neidle's tax specialist should have caught it. NB I don't know the facts here, and I don't like Rayner and would like to see her go; but there is a possible scenario in which her behaviour here should not have that consequence.
It's the law that needs to be changed

I'd have expected @ft to spell out just how bizarre the SDLT provision is that seems to have caught her: just being the parent is enough, even if you don't own any beneficial interest and aren't a trustee. It isn't about occupation. Without this you can't appreciate how easily this mistake might...

Further, the paper doesn’t deny (it can’t) that leaving the ECHR would entitle the EU at once to terminate Trade and Cooperation provisions of great importance to immigration control and fighting crime. The EU could also terminate the TCA as a whole.

That result is so obviously problematic as to rule it out as a practical suggestion.

Great for them but has it occurred to you that that's coming out of everyone else's pockets - and we're more likely to be reading Bluesky than busy parents?

Isn't it a warning shot across Reeves's bows? Loosen up or we'll take over/replace you?

Increasingly Starmer is aligning his policies to Farage's. The difference is that Farage looks as though he believes his, while Starmer's insincerity and inauthenticity are visible to the thickest voter

This ignores not only our moral duty, but the force of a clear statement that UK will do everything possible to bring Netanyahu and his inner circle to The Hague to answer for what they are doing.
Only by removing Israeli impunity (which UK helped create) will we see a return to civilised conduct /

Starmer and Lammy would have you believe that nothing we can do will rescue Gaza, that only Trump can change the course of Israeli destruction (so best not antagonise him pointlessly - and not risk accusations of antisemitism etc even though those are already dividing UK). 1/2

What a daft idea. They're quite likely to reach the right decision, defeating the whole purpose of the reforms

Ah so it's connecting with infants that explains his success with Trump...

It also means a considerable decline for those who don't get wages and can't negotiate even that protection

On the recognition of Palestine A close look at an unconvincing letter from "distinguished" UK lawyers

On the recognition of Palestine

A close look at an unconvincing letter from "distinguished" UK lawyers

By me

Substack:
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