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Ceri Shields

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Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors. Currently still on Twitter as @Ceri_Shields

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Mixed feelings about latest techniques in Japanese Zen gardening

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Marlon Brando voice: the lolz, the lolz!

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Good Day! Henley from the Wargrave Road by Jan Siberechts, 1698 (Henley-on-Thames River & Rowing Museum) Zoom in for detail

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Can’t comment on the US. But in the UK people like ex-SoS for Education Michael Gove think the *point* of history is to make people feel good about the country by giving them an uplifting story. So of course they think the point of teaching the bad bits must be to make people feel bad, even guilty.

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‘Hi, let me break in on your concentration looking very closely at that picture to say I liked some skeleton drawings you did when you were a student. I am sure I am the 10,000th person who has said this to you, but please humour me because then I’ll have a tiny story to tell people.’ Hmm. Nah.

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/… famous living artists, I should say something to him. But he was looking so hard at all those fine Ingres drawings I couldn’t think of anything to say that was worth interrupting him with. So I spent two hours in his company and never spoke with him 😂

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Gosh, I think I remember that! Didn’t he say something like that TV pictures have no chiaroscuro? He was always fun. Tiny Hockney moment: years ago I went all the way round the Ingres exhibition at the NG about three paces behind him. I spent the whole time thinking, this is one of our most …/

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Wannabe future prime ministers of the UK, folks.

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I know The Other Place is awful but, damn me, it’s all kicking off! Such giggles

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I don’t subscribe to unevidenced conspiracy theories. But where you give me the evidence…!

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I’m guessing you were unconvinced by Tony Blair’s suggestion that AI is going to solve our aging population and productivity challenges? I ask with a carefully deadpan expression on my face.

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I like a man who has made a decision about what glasses lens shape suits him and sticks with it for life. That’s some proper self-knowledge right there.

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This piece sums up why the Tories lost, and not just for the reasons the author intends. “The things I failed to vocally oppose ultimately led to my defeat, our internal culture is terrible- anyway, here are some unpleasant asides about the Lib Dems and Liz Truss.

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I would definitely tell the accounts department to keep a careful eye on her expenses.

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‘I have seven staff to make redundant and dispose of them here in half a sentence. Then back to Me. Poor me! It’s AWFUL losing your job. Well, my job.’

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Landscape in inclement weather by Joachim Frich 1855 Oil on Canvas (National Museum of Norway, Oslo)

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Interior with Madame Hessel and Her Dog Édouard Vuillard 1910 Oil on Cardboard on Panel (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host by Samuel Colman c. 1830 Oil on Canvas (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

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It's. Also. Annoying. When. People. Do. This. Because. It. Takes. Forever. To. Read. One. Short. Sentence. And. It's. Usually. Not. As. Profound. As. They. Think. It. Is. Either.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers

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An Englishman walks into a Swiss bank. He goes to the teller, puts his face close to the glass, and whispers, “I have 2 million pounds and need to open a secret Swiss bank account.” The teller replies, “Sir, there’s no need to whisper. Poverty is nothing to be ashamed of in Switzerland.”

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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As an aside, it’s been underreported that the Lib Dems held on to every one of their massive by-election wins in once-safe Conservative seats. Unprecedented. Going forward this is bad news for the Tories. They’re not going to be able to shift the LDs out of the GE seats taken from them.

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Very shortly, as one of his first PM duties, Starmer has to write his secret final orders to nuclear submarine commanders. ‘If you find the worst has happened and Britain is lost then fire all your missiles at Basingstoke and head for Australia.’

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Sad about SW Devon. But South Devon won by Caroline Voaden, and in the end quite comfortably! As recently as November a LD insider we know was telling us their party was not going to point resources at Totnes cos sadly it wasn’t winnable. Ha! Also, goodbye Mercer — HA! Yes!

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I was looking at West Devon. Fingers crossed, but…

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He’s going to accidentally blurt something out in front of someone, probably his doting mum, and then we’ll have several weeks of ‘George, you have to fess up. Alice is going to prison otherwise!’ (Have you seen the exit poll? 🫤)

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Best For Britain’s tactical voting website, getvoting.org , suggests what you are seeing is an accurate representation of voter intention. Tories and Reform together making up more than half the ballot — but Labour with a good chance of nipping through between them and snatching it! 🤞

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Following on with my obvious penchant for snapping snippets of historical buildings from narrow streets, here's the #Florence Cathedral near Mercato Centrale–a hugely popular two level market with MASSIVE indoor food halls featuring 💯s of concession stands. #photography #travel #📷 #Italy #firenze #🇮🇹

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I divide my time between London and Devon. London: very safe seats = very little election activity (a few leaflets through the letter box). Devon: highly contestable seats = heaps of activity, including talk and placards about tactical voting. So, it depends, I think.

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Good Day! Humours of an Election: The Polling by William Hogarth 1754-55 Oil on Canvas (The Sir John Soane's Museum)

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I think it was Lenin who said, “there are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where holy shit what the fuck”

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I have spent much time here and I find it impossible to walk the streets between the piazza and the duomo in one direction and S. Croce in the other without my head filling with stories from Vasari of Renaissance artists in and around the same places. It is VERY evocative!

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Not now, pollsters!! 😂 (And TY for the alt text, which saves me asking.)

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I hope you are wrong too but I am not optimistic. It’s like the entire 20th century is a massive lesson from which an awful lot of people are determined not to learn.

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I think Chris Grey is misreading Starmer on this. When Starmer says he doesn’t believe Britain will rejoin the EU ‘in his lifetime’ he means exactly that: his presumption is that Britain is outside the EU for the next 30+ years, maybe forever, and govt. policy will be formulated on that basis. Sadly

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Unfortunately I don’t think they do have to deal with Brexit, beyond, as you say, a ‘better relationship’ with the EU. Which is a deliberately nebulous aspiration and might end up meaning something moderately substantial — or the bare minimum re. veterinary arrangements and such like.

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Dedicated to everyone who fell in love unrequited. 💔

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