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We like to think that everything in politics today is uniquely dramatic and unprecedented.
In 1887 PM Lord Salisbury embarked on a reshuffle, calling in foreign secretary Stafford Northcote to be fired.
Northcote walked in, sat on the chair to wait for his sacking, and died.
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There's more to the Renaissance than Michelangelo.
So here's an introduction to the delightful worlds of Sandro Botticelli...
ALT Detail from The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Since their first discovery in the fifteenth century, ‘classical sculpture’ has been synonymous for “ambiguously cream-coloured marble with various bits missing”. Here’s my take on when art restoration is appropriate, and when it might be less so: thesaint.scot/2021/02/the-ru…
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Look, it's no use asking questions like "Wait a second, are you bricking me up in the wine cellar?" and "But why are you bricking me up in the wine cellar?" What matters is you're in there and I'm out here, and we're both just going to have to make our peace with that
“Don’t be daft,” Mr Wolf of Wall Street had sighed disdainfully. “I don’t choose my passwords, I generate them.” Here’s an article I wrote on the near-obsolete craft of password-making: bit.ly/36EyKAg
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews pressed Elizabeth Warren on why she believed that Mike Bloomberg had told a pregnant employee to “kill it.” Because she had said so, she said.
“Why would he lie?” Matthews asked.
“Why would she lie?” Warren responded. nyti.ms/32r4OnW
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REVIEW | Kate Lau reviews the group show "To See the Forest for the Trees," part of @AsiaSocietyHK's "Hidden Forests" program on the city's ecology and the impact of last year's Typhoon Mangkut: bit.ly/2Tu4LmU
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I just want to wish a very happy second anniversary to my next door neighbour’s building works! What an incredible achievement to have lasted this long. #Blessed
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I hope the terrible news from Paris serves as a wake up call re the Palace of Westminster which is an inferno waiting to happen.
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Right-wing thugs on the streets, parliamentary paralysis, an inert conservative government, a dogmatic & self-absorbed Left, the demonisation of minorities... All we need now is a post no-deal economic crisis and, meine Damen und Herren, we proudly present... Weimar!
kate retweeted
‘Time is running out’, we’re told. Over and over again. In spite of the fact that running out is pretty much the only thing time ever does or is equipped to do.
