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But. And this might be difficult for you to understand. They are not shit. I am sorry if youve never got to sit in the Orangerie and see the magnificence that is the water lilies by Monet. If you’ve never got a chance to see Liberty Leading the People or the Raft of Medusa, the Dance to the...

It’s another thread where people just get to say things are shit, just yet more philistinism - tiresome. If you don’t like something (and I am not referring to you @IdleRich cos you don’t do this) don’t call it shit, just allow others to enjoy it.

Troll.

But yes, Manet is really rather good.

Poussin Chardin Caillebotte David Gericault Ingres Cezanne Degas Seurat Fantin LeTour Delacroix just off top of my head to refute that nonsense.

The Nagle one is a decent job but there are perennial arguments over translating the classics, especially Homer - how chatty, colloquial, how formal, how formulaic, which version. Endless.

I liked the Melchior - it got progressively weirder and more interesting. Kind of Firzcarraldo at its best.

Good moon tonight. Like half a lemon slice in a gin and tonic.

First time in a cinema since before the pandemic. Watched the French Dispatch - a joyous homage to a certain set of French and American cliches. Probably many people on here will not be that fond, considering it cute or some such. But I liked it - sometimes things can be light and delightful.

I think what was sad was how quickly he kind of got subsumed into a kind of ‘alt-history’ heritage brand - his bald head and all that. I read his stuff he did at Swedenborg Centre not too long ago - that was good.

There is a point though isn’t there that he staked out a territory and pursued it with great vigour. Downriver, Scarlett Tracings stuff felt very exciting at the time. Yeah, others now have taken the ball and ran with it but let’s not fall into the ‘everything you once liked is now shut’...

Jean Claude Izzy’s crime novels are all set in Marseilles and while 20 years old now are pretty prescient for how things turned out for the that part of the world.

I criticised him for many things but he was in the constituency, found jobs for some of my ex pupils, got my son work experience in the Commons, was vocal about all manner of things that mattered to Leigh and Southend, I don’t suppose there’s many here who hadn’t met him, chatted with him or...

My constituency MP. Met him dozens of times. Can’t say I agreed with him on anything but he turned up to all manner of events and was very vocal about local concerns. Utterly shocking. I should imagine Angela Rayner’s ‘Tory scum’ sound bite is going to get wheeled out despite the fact we have...

My wife worked in pre-Tinnamen China and has been following this story for quite some time. She has strongly argued that what we’re watching is state sponsored genocide where the west are more than aware of what is going on. Unlike WW2 and Germany we have no excuses of supposed ignorance and yet...

Mine was draft Radegast but I don’t think it ever made it over here.

And Jimmy Nail I believe.

I can see Poch at Newcastle - a proper project building a team in his image but with unlimited funds.

My love of all things French goes back to a trip in first year where we managed to get bangers out a vending machine using 10ps (I think) rather than francs. There was a van which sold us 12 yr olds cans of beer. It was only a short step from there to the novels of Flaubert, Proust and Huysmanns...

There will be some faux outrage and then life will continue. Man City have hardly been tainted with the way the word owners got their money. No one is interested in Roman’s source of wealth at Chelski- over and again we see football take the king’s shilling. Too soon we’ll have a World Cup in...