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I'm no artist but I think I know what he means:

"No, let me be true to myself, and express severe, rough but true things in a rough manner."

Looking across a road at a bus stop in front of a low wall by the sea. A low rosy light as the winter sun fades cast on clouds over the sea.

Just another bus stop.

Seaburn.
📷 #photography

Good stuff afterwards, too, especially ‘Surf’s Up’ which is largely terrific.

Morning, Des.
They are looking conspiratorial!
“So I turned round and said…and he turned round and said…then I turned round and said…’.

Painting by L. S. Lowry ‘Winter in Pendlebury, Manchester’
Oil on panel. Dimensions H 42.2 x W 22.8 cm.

Mesmeric.

Irreplaceable.
Immaculate taste.
RIP Steve Cropper

A pioneer and awesome talent.

Off to a ‘Turkey and Tinsel’ party.

Scarecrow in Hurley, Berkshire.

Looking dapper.

A series of images of Liverpool.

It is a special place.

The Tories are in terminal decline and refuse to recognise it.
Usefully, they do split the vote.

Morning all

Photographer Don McCullin, Early Morning,
West Hartlepool, County Durham, 1963.

Could easily have been twice as long.

His voice took a while to appreciate but the songs are gems.
‘Watermark’ album by Art Garfunkel is a wonderful collaboration.

Fascinating.

The head of a cortège.

A moving sight.

Barely mentioned some 23 minutes into the 6pm BBC News bulletin.

I’m saving so much drinking Brooke Bond!!!

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me: two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Ate them.

Painting by Vincent van Gogh ‘Landscape with Snow’ (Paysage enneigé). 
1888.
Oil on canvas. Dimensions 38.3 x 46.2 cm.

Morning, Des.
This was a popular poster.

Man on bicycle in fog by Campden Hill Road water reservoir, West London, 1951 - by Bill Brandt

Goodnight.

Bill Brandt, 1951

Ryo Takemasa, Beach In The Evening (2015)

Press ownership regulations, time-consuming investigations, codes of conduct could all be put in place where there’s a will.

He’s basically admitted that he believes his job is to tell us what to think.
It isn’t.
How arrogant.

Sure to be a viewing highlight of the season.

He might say he is just following orders. The big mystery here is why, after 17 long months, Labour has allowed this relentless hounding to continue?