Artists usually love people trashing their work. Especially when they accompany it with a commentary on the unimportance of art. (View Post)

If it cheers you up at all, the JSO protestors who threw soup at a Van Gogh painting have been jailed. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/27/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-painting-jail/ (View Post)

Well mayors were already taken when elected mayors came along. They wore gold chains and funny hats. So I don't see why we can't have elected sherrifs for counties. (View Post)

OTOH, 'cos of the rain, our island is gloriously verdant. Bill Bryson once said of Devon that you could be forgiven for thinking its chief industry was the manufacture of chlorophyll. And there … (View Post)

I am more than happy with SPLORG. If I may offer a retrofitted justification: to qualify as a named letter (aside from 'others') in SPLORG you must a) not be Lab or Con, b) be a party, and … (View Post)