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 Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby in Rising Damp (1974-78) and as Inspector Truscott in Loot (1984)   I.    As a Rising Damp aficianado, I was ...

Visualisation of how Eduardo Paolozzi's Oscar Wilde  sculpture will look when installed in Chelsea The Paolozzi Foundation     A new scu...

Just another day in the press office at Charisma Records  for Jazz and Lee Ellen (1984)     Entry from The Von Hell Diaries Tuesday 7 Augus...

The Adoration of the Golden Calf – image from the  Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg  (12th century)   I.   According to the Book o...

  Adapted from the poster for I Am Greta (a documentary film dir. Nathan Grossman, 2020)   I.    Byung-Chul Han says that the idiot has all...

I.    The American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is perhaps best remembered today for a (semi-autobiographical) s...

Philosopher A. C. Grayling -  give this man a toga and a crown  (Photo: Simone Padovani)     I don't much like long-haired British philo...

The Overlook Hotel ( The Shining , 1980)       For a long time, I have dreamed of one day living in a hotel. Not staying for a short break o...

Black Sun Flower (SA/2023)     Is it just me, or is there not a suggestion in the flower on the left of the sun-wheel symbol [1] that Nazi ...

T-shirt by philosophyfootball.com Sporting outfitters of intellectaul distinction     Apparently, the FIFA Women's World Cup begins this...

My photo of a local fawn and a poster for the Sex Pistols' film soundtrack The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979)   Some readers...

Sarah Bernhardt (aged 21)  Photo by Félix Nadar (1865)   "Mon vrai pays est le plein air et ma vocation est l'art sans contraintes....

    I.   I've mentioned before on this blog how the word hello has long held a privileged place in my personal vocabulary: click here . ...

Fig. 1: Pretty little moth in my front garden / Fig. 2: A colour enhanced detail from the wing Fig. 3: Jamie Reid God Save the Cambridge Rap...