Art today is driven more by money and exposure, than by genius and the quality of the work. So many of the artists, whose paintings are now so in demand as investments, were quite often very poor. In the earlier centuries they had to depend upon patronage or commission. At the time of the Impressionists… Continue reading Criticism,Art and Chicanery
Irrational thinking
With the governments of the world clearly in a tailspin, it is difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff and this hasn’t been helped with respect to our own economy, when doubts have been cast on the high reputation of the last Chancellor, and few seem to trust our current one. There are some… Continue reading Irrational thinking
Cause and Effect, part 3
Yesterday I received an e-mail from my friend in Holland . Previously I had said that I would like somebody to elucidate. And while I’m not sure that he has done that totally, he has certainly given me yet another slant on the whole sorry business. It is interesting that a quiet and charming, very… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 3
Cause and Effect, part 2. The Fallout
Because I know little about banking, and even less about worldwide financial interchange, I am a putting my thoughts on paper, in the hope that perhaps someone will elucidate. The question all of us are asking, possibly subconsciously, is where the hell has all the money gone? Perhaps like foreign aid to some of the… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 2. The Fallout
Cause and Effect, part 1.The cause of our current situation
It started with the ‘Silly Sixties’, when anything was permissible, and coincided with the new age of the computer. Prior to the sixties the average man in the street had pretty parochial horizons and ambitions, because he was not wealthy, but he was sure of his own security of tenure in employment and some if… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 1.The cause of our current situation
The Ilogicality of the Law
What I write here is really only relevant to people who are interested in the law, or over 50 years of age. The fact that a woman had to go to the High Court to discover whether her husband would be charged with the criminal offence or not, of aiding and abetting suicide, if he… Continue reading The Ilogicality of the Law
A letter to my MP.
Having listened to David Cameron stating that the Conservatives intend saving money by getting rid of consultants, I felt I had to write to you, as I believe this short-term approach would lead to total disaster. I believe him to be wrong both in principle and in practice, what is required is long-term change in… Continue reading A letter to my MP.
Poor, that overused word.
The word is being used to such a great extent these days that I started thinking about it in the round. It is misused at every turn. When they talk about the poor, it can mean anything, or indeed nothing, because the relationship has to be stated to have relevance, and this is often the… Continue reading Poor, that overused word.
A Letter to All UK Politicians Wherever You Are
A long time ago, when keyhole surgery started to become a common procedure, I felt that there should have been some form of profit and loss bookkeeping, in the health service, so that when new procedures, inventions, medicines and treatments were introduced that showed a cost saving in parallel areas when compared with the earlier… Continue reading A Letter to All UK Politicians Wherever You Are
Burglary on Holiday
I’m not very well up on holidays abroad any more, and so I don’t know if the heinous crime which took place where my daughter, her family and friends were staying, is unusual, or now part of the holiday scene. What I did feel was that I should draw attention to what has happened, as… Continue reading Burglary on Holiday