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Don't think it was Zelensky saying the "war will last three days" was it?

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A lot of this going on right now...

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Who remembers Adrian Daintrey? Not sure if he wasn't more of an illustrator than an artist... But that's debatable.

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Dropped in to the Batty Humphries estate sale at Christie's today. Great theatre!

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Talking to someone today whose view is that the electorate is hardening its view on the numbers of people who don't work, on the amounts being spent on the NHS, and consequently on taxes. This doctrine means 'things have to change fundamentally'. Is this what's happening in the US?

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Another piece of public art in London that you may have missed. This is Barbara Hepworth's Winged Figure.

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"Night rushes on, embracing the world in her sable wings". In London, outside the National Theatre.

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Mark Carney talking a lot of sense, on tariffs and on Brexit. Shows what a statesman he is and will be.

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The wood where wild garlic grows...

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The world is becoming like biscuits, Garibaldi or Bourbon. Revolutionary or reactionary? Please offer both for splendour and excitement. Hobnobs are just a diversion.

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"He walked like a man conscious of the fact that his trousers were held up by faith alone." Iain Sinclair's prose has a surprise in every line. This is from Downriver, which is as dense and revealing as anything Pynchon wrote.

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The vitriol from some Trump opponents here is to be expected. What would be more interesting would be to find out how Republicans think he's doing so far...

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Time to go and visit the Maori bird kites at the British museum. Time to learn about using the dativ in German. Time to re-read Great Expectations.

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A walk in the Chiltern Hills today

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"The beetles dying of plague Don't care what railways are like." Benjamin Peret

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Calvin was a goddamn prophet.

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From the Tomb at Helicarnassus, now in the British Museum. It must have been truly massive. Built without a computer or a power crane.

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Chiswick House

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