Aircraft for scrap
The retirement of BA’s 747 fleet has led to a bout of nostalgia from staff and plane fanatics keen for souvenirs. Earlier this month, BA announced it was permanently grounding its fleet of 31...
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Uccello painting & Simon Goodman
His grandparents had to sell their paintings for a pittance – and then were killed. Simon Goodman on why the recovery of one means so much A masterpiece by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo...
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THE WAY OUT …IS IN
By Marc J. Francis Before the Corona Virus, in a galaxy far far away ! – a group of artists known as @patternity created the Life Labryinth – an interactive public art installation outside...
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Ronan O’Rahilly – RIP
The original radio pirate dies at 79: Tributes are paid to Radio Caroline founder Ronan O’Rahilly whose illicit 1960s broadcasts into UK homes from a ship off Suffolk changed the face of popular music...
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If Trump were captain of the Titanic
“There isn’t any iceberg. There was an iceberg but it’s in a totally different ocean. The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon. There is an iceberg but we didn’t...
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The deathly reality of Covid-19
Hello. I am a junior doctor working in a busy London hospital that is full to the brim with Coronavirus. Was going to make a video trying to speak this but I’m too angry...
THE WAY OUT …IS IN
By Marc J. Francis Before the Corona Virus, in a galaxy far far away ! – a group of artists known as @patternity created the Life Labryinth – an interactive public art installation outside...
Ronan O’Rahilly – RIP
The original radio pirate dies at 79: Tributes are paid to Radio Caroline founder Ronan O’Rahilly whose illicit 1960s broadcasts into UK homes from a ship off Suffolk changed the face of popular music...
If Trump were captain of the Titanic
“There isn’t any iceberg. There was an iceberg but it’s in a totally different ocean. The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon. There is an iceberg but we didn’t...
The deathly reality of Covid-19
Hello. I am a junior doctor working in a busy London hospital that is full to the brim with Coronavirus. Was going to make a video trying to speak this but I’m too angry...
Microbiology and us
Facebook post by Stephen Harrod Buhner HI all, at the risk of starting an uproar on my thread (please refrain – AGAIN PLEASE REFRAIN – really, stop sending me bio-weapon conspiracy stuff and telling...
Loneliness
“I think it was Brene Brown who told a story about a village where all the women washed clothes together down by the river. When they all got washing machines, there was a sudden...
George Ransom, grand-father’s medals
Trouvé dans les archives de Gordon Ransom, dans un enveloppe de courrier recommandé du Ministère de la Guerre (War Office), envoyé à l’adresse: G.RANSOM, “Hickory Cottage”, 1 Slitting Hill, Rugely, Staffs” (date tampon illisible...
Black Friday
Letter to my brother Francis: “I phoned this afternoon, left a short probably incomprehensible message. Just wanted to share my deep sorrow on this godawful day. Watching BBC news or French TV, I feel...
Chopin – Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28 No. 4)
First heard in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) de Stephen Frears starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. Pianist: Rousseau YouTube. Chopin’s most melancholic prelude, which by his own request was played at his...
How fragile we are – Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox surprises Sting at the Polar Music Prize 2017 “If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the color of the evening sun Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains...
