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Eric Ravilious: ‘what it is to be English’ and making masterpieces of the ordinary
Eric Ravilious prints for sale Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and...
Washington police chief who put SS insignia on his office door gets $1.5m to resign
To save money, the city of Kent in Washington gave State Assistant Police Chief Derek Kammerzell $1.5m to leave his job. A bargain – because the city says litigation to remove him would have co...
The Best Christmas Cards Sale – And Discounts on unique Christmas Gifts
Christmas cards and Christmas gifts are now at a 20% discount in the Flashbak Shop . Just enter the vouched code ‘ALLGOODTHINGS’ to claim your discount. It’s not just a Christmas card s...
Jogo do Bicho Cassino Brazil
INTRODUÇÃO O Jogo do Bicho é uma das formas de entretenimento mais antigas no Brasil, sendo popular em muitas regiões do país. Neste artigo, exploraremos a história, funcionamento, impacto...
The mayor of Kyiv shows how to do a TV interview
> Russia claims its only hitting military targets. What does the Kyiv > Mayor say to that? "BULLSHIT!" he spits. A former boxing champion, > Vitale Klitschko delivers kn...
Russian cosmonauts arrive at International Space Station dressed in yellow and blue of Ukraine
The three new arrivals on ISS were dressed in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag as they emerged from their Soyuz capsule after docking with the space station. Their yellow uniforms carrie...
Winnie the Pooh is now in the public domain
This Public Domain Day on January 1, 2022 meant works from 1926 lost their copyright and became yours to play around with and enjoy. Around 400,000 recordings published before 1923 entered the pu...
Lost pinhole camera takes world’s longest exposure photograph
The beer can pinhole camera spent eight years capturing a solargraph at the University of Hertfordshire ’s Bayfordbury Observatory. The final image records the sun’s movement in 2,953 light ...
The apostrophe is dead – again
The apostrophe is to become extinct, says the Telegraph, as language becomes less formal. The Apostrophiser should find more work. The language fan been correcting the misuse of apostrophes i...
‘Boris Johnson look-a-like’ jailed for theft in Yorkshire
Boris Johnson ‘look-a-like’ Jason Watson has been jailed. Unless Jason is running the country and the Prime Minister is now giving her Majesty no end of pleasure for the next ten months…? N...
Zac Goldsmith – look out, another elite posho wants to save the planet
Zac Goldsmith is the UK environment minister. He’s chuffed to bits about the “unprecedented” conservation deal by more than 100 world leaders to halt and reverse deforestation and land degr...
The Hill regrets the error in probably the best correction ever
Website The Hill notes that anti-Semitic crime in Germany is at the highest level ever recorded. Not that it was a crime when the Germans were keeping count of the 6 million Jews the country had ...
In times of increased power costs, British trains turn to diesel
Diesel is bad. Electric is good – well, so long as you don’t want to do anything it is: > Freightliner has confirmed > > that it will be withdrawing its entire fleet of elect...
Lars Vilks, Mohammed cartoons and Batley is missing a teacher
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has died in a car crash. Vilks achieved an unenviable sort of fame – having sketched the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s head on a dog’s body in 2007, he was subjected ...
Eco-labels, organic and green but only one thing matters: the price tag
The Guardian is interested in seeing which labels on supermarket and processed foods gets diners to change their ways and opt for the more eco-friendly product. It spots “a different type that...
Stephen Pinker on the closing down of rationality and open minds
In the Times, Professor Stephen Pinker, an experimental cognitive scientist, is talking about the rationality and its death on college campuses. He’s a new book out. Rationality: What It Is, Wh...
Harry Dunn: Parents reach resolution in case against Anne Sacoolas
News is that the family of Harry Dunn, 19, are nearing the end to their legal fight. Dunn died when his motorbike was hit by a car reportedly driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas near RAF Croughton...
Taliban Talc: Heroin rockets in price – but only in the Guardian and BBC
News in the Guardian is that heroin made in Afghanistan (it was packaged as talc) has rocketed in price: > Nearly three tonnes of heroin with a street value of $2.7bn (£2bn) > fr...
Covid-19: Robert Peston’s Double Fist
ITV’s Robert Peston tweeted that despite being twice jabbed he’d still caught Covid-19. He investigated why? And having concluded his study, tweeted his findings: > According to new dat...
After Afghanistan and the War on Terror: US State Department works hard for US State Department
Fox News says the US State Department is blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan. Well, the government would, no? After all, it makes them look looks as though they’re in cont...
When and why Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, by Keith Richards
Charlie Watts has died. The coolest and best looking Rolling Stone by far. In Keith’s autobiography, we get a bit of Charlie we can admire: Spotter: Andrew Beasley
20 years of nailing it Afghanistan – watch four culpable US presidents bullshit the world
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan has been led by the US-led retreat from the country ruled by the Taliban, just as it was when the US went in. It’s been 20 years of waste, thousands of lost l...
Only Fans bans porn – goodbye OnlyFans
OnlyFans is where you can pay to connect with physical fitness experts, chefs, musicians and “other creators who post regularly online”. You can also use it for on-the-clock, internet-enabled...
Bury cannabis farm points to profitable city centre trade
Police have destroyed the cannabis plants they found in a property near Bury town centre. The BBC says the crop of around 1,000 plants had a “street value” of £1m. Chief Inspector Jamie Co...
How to die from cancer
Does it sound trite to say that ‘cancer’ is a word and not a sentence? A Samaritan friend uses it. It works. It helps. Jack Thomas, a journalist at the Boston Globe since 1958 responds to his...