IT'S THE WAY
THAT YA DO IT!
Apparently, a female person by the name of Loraine Holmes recently travelled by train from Leeds to London, and then took a taxi to Finsbury Park to gawp at the latest offering by street artist... Banksy!
A senior business analyst by trade, she is a self-confessed Banksy superfan.
"I spent a total of about five hours there, just taking it all in and observing people." she said.
Well... Banksy's artworks are produced by means of stencils, Loraine, and you could get them done yourself by a machine from photographs... then you just bash away with a spray gun or stencil brush. I could do it... old uncle Tom Cobley and all!
If you live in Leeds, or thereabouts, you could pop along to Dewsbury, it's less than 10 miles as the crow flies... or takes a bus. In the town centre you will see some exclent stencils by a genleman by the name of Trafford Parsons... there's one of local heroine Eileen Fenton, the first woman to swim the English Channel (she is still alive... aged 96!) and... Dewsbury born Betty Boothroyd who served as the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1973 to 2000. There's one of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood as well.
Gawp to your heart's content!
Would the colleen consider wearing a baseball cap if she questioned Donald Trump? Would she sport a scrum cap if she was speaking to a rugby player? If she visited the New York Stock Exchange would she wear a crash helmet?
The correspondent colleen was born in Dublin, Ireland, arguably one of the least subservient countries on the planet. More kowtowing from the Beeb!
It's a wrap!
AND
OUT
THE
MONEY!
Hot off the presses... news that the £100 million earmarked by the Church of England for a new investment fund to help repair damage caused by its historic link to slavery is "...not enough" a report says.
It comes after an investigation last year found that the Curch of England invested large amounts of money into a company that transported thousands of slaves.
Apparently, the Church welcomed the report by the Church Commissioners Charity and accepted the recommendation - but would not commit to raising the fund to a reported $1bn target!
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby said the report was "... the beginning of a multi-generational response to the "apalling evil" of slavery.
How... pray... is this money going to be doled out. Will every black American get something... including former baseball star Michael Jordan... estimated net worth 3 billion U.S. dollars, and Oprah Winfrey, estimated net worth 2.8 billion dollars. Will Kanye qualify? Will the boyz n the hood benefit? Will the rappers receive readies? Will Barrack Obama who claims to be "black", but had a white mother, only get half a share?
Will there be mass departures from "Merica" to the Dark Continent as a result? I very much doubt it!
When can we Brits expect a payout from the desendants of the Barbary Pirates, the Dutch Privateers, theTurks, and the Romans, who snatched slaves from these shores? Don't hold yer breath!
WORLD MY
MASTERS!
is the title of a Jacobean stage play by Thomas Middleton, first performed around 1605, and published in 1608.
It has been described as a “…wicked farcical satire of lies and lust.”
Perhaps the title is just as accurate today as it was 400 years ago, if not more so, considering that a biological male, one Dylan Mulvaney, has recently been voted “Woman of the Year” by a British LGBTQ magazine ‘Attitude’, at an award show in London, sponsored by Virgin (on the ridiculous) Atlantic.
In the Tom
Stoppard’s play, “Travesties”, which is set in
He put in an appearance at the event… the sham ham was dudded up like a drama queen… but
then some people will do anything for ackers, won’t they!
News from the BBC that. Louis Theroux thinks... "It's harder to get programmes made about risky subjects because broadcasters like the BBC are playing it safe."
He is quoted as saying. that broadcasters like the BBC now had "a temptation to lay low" and avoid difficult subjects for fear of causing offence.
If Mr. Theroux actually said, "lay low", it beggars belief as to how he gets a job as a jaunting journalist.
Way back in the 1950s one of our teachers at primary school told us that hens lay, and people lie... both through their teeth, and in their beds.
If I am causing offence with this blog, then so be it!
WHAT A LOAD OF BALLOTS! So, the election across the pond has finally finished, with the diddler beating the dullwit. 258 million adults and ...
