As life sometimes imitates art, there is a current proposal which will rise on the Battersea Heliport site that actually looks like a turd. You couldn’t make it up.
16:02
The Turder Prize
A couple of years ago we toyed with creating/sponsoring a prize for the worst building inflicted by the architectural profession on the long suffering inhabitants of London. There were any number of possible contenders. We thought ‘The Turder Prize’ had a good ring to it.
17:24
Trump’s language problem
One of Trump’s problems (there are many) is the paucity of his vocabulary - which is that of an child. His repertoire of adjectives is limit...
09:00
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights are again in the news. With the Assad/Iran victory in Syria, the Iranians and their proxies are moving up to the border an...
10:56
Jeremy Thorpe
Hugh Grant is doing a great turn as Thorpe. Looking back on it, the whole tale was much more than ‘A very English Scandal’. It was high farc...
14:46
St Kilda
You can easily miss St Kilda. To find it, locate Harris and Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and then head out fifty miles into the Atlantic wher...
11:17
Theodora’s speech
This is Empress Theodora’s speech to her husband Justinian and his council during the Nika Rebellion of 523. It must be up there with Church...
18:39
Grade inflation
One of the sins of getting older is the moan that it was all better in the past. Most of the time it’s just different - and that applies to ...
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