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History repeated
In an article entitled Honour Amongst Thieves Guardian columnist Philip Hensher offers an interesting argument in favour of Western nations keeping hold of historical artifacts and national treasures that rightfully belong to African nations. Using Sudan as an example he states that; In many instances, national treasures are better off outside their countries of origin [...]
Nobody Knew?
Carol Vincent was in her forties when she died. Carol Vincent died alone in her tiny studio flat in London. Carol Vincent died a few weeks before Christmas; November 2003 to be exact. It took more than two years for someone to realise Carol Vincent was dead. Two years. She lay there. Alone, dead, unnoticed, [...]
Mah-Mah @ 80
…For very nearly 60 of those 80 years, she has been my dahling mahmah… Excerpt from Prince Charles’ Tribute to the Queen on her 80th birthday Maybe it was just me, but when His Royal Highness uttered the words ’60 of those 80 year’, I sensed a note of resentful resignantion. Y’know the sort of [...]
D.I.V.O.R.C.E
After several failed attempts at drafting some witty commentary to accompany the images in this post I have opted to stick to the facts and simply recount how I happened across these images. It was a Wednesday morning, no different from any other. As usual I bought my copy of The Guardian at Lancaster train [...]
