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Art Prices are Obscene .
Art prices at ‘obscene’ levels as Chinese join high-spending elite says Richard Partington, the Guardian’s economics correspondent.
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Bishop Michael Curry – the Royal Wedding
Bishop Michael Curry preached a fine sermon at the wedding today of Prince Harry and beautiful actress Meghan Markle.
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Division and indoctrination, greed, violence and politics.
Why does society have to be so divisive? Why does political posturing have to increase polarization and seek to indoctrinate?
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How should you deal with a pig?
I have come to question my behaviour when dealing with a pig over the past couple of years. Well, pigs actually.
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John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent ranks high in my list of favourite painters.
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Corrosive, Obsessive Hatred
How can people not see what their untrammelled hatred does to themselves and those around them?
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Is it all gloom?
Is everything bad? Is the world a bad place? Are we humans damned and doomed? Is there any good news?
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Why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million in the Spanish Flu outbreak?
Is it odd that 100 million deaths in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 has received comparatively little attention?
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Carpe Diem
There is nothing quite like a funeral to concentrate the mind; “carpe diem” seems such an apt phrase at such a time.
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Tilting at Windmills
I wonder whether I am guilty of “tilting at windmills”.