John Martin from Haydon Bridge made his name painting the end of the world, so convincingly that one London gallery had to put a railing round his picture to hold the crowds back. He also [more…]
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was grey, grotty and chilly this morning when I went out, so I suppose autumn is well and truly here. It’s rather nice here in Number Ten, as [more…]
Sitting in the car taking him to the hotel, Jane phoned “Remember, you have a meeting with Sir Rupert at 15:00 this afternoon, your first bollocking in your new job, no doubt it will be [more…]
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent. I’m a long time lurker (early days of Guido Fawkes [more…]
I visited 3 art exhibitions over the summer. The first was the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. I shared my thoughts on that exhibition in early Summer. I also visited the Zurbaran exhibition at the National [more…]
There is a particular species of man that history keeps breeding, the way a swamp keeps breeding mosquitoes — simply because the conditions are irresistible. He arrives at the tail end of an exhausted society, [more…]
At the end of August 1939 my maternal grandmother took the decision that her children would not be evacuated because of the war. My grandfather had little say in the matter and accepted that if [more…]
In 1988, George Soros deftly manoeuvered through the stock holdings of Société Générale, France’s banking titan, executing trades that yielded a modest $2.2 million profit. The transaction, unremarkable at the time, scarcely rippled the financial [more…]
George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal for 46 years. He drew the line the whole world sets its clocks by, weighed the Earth from the bottom of a coal pit in South Shields and never, [more…]
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