We bought my engagement ring and my wedding ring in Hatton Garden many years ago. Back then, every shop seemed to have an orthodox Jew behind the counter. I don’t think I really thought about that at the time, or subsequently, but last Friday the memories came flooding back.
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The epitome of vulgarity
Watering my whatever-they-ares on the patio yesterday afternoon, I was repeatedly irritated by manhood-substitutes (aka helicopters) returning from Silverstone, where Lewis Hamilton had become the second English sportsman to disgrace his country in a short space of time.
The fourth plinth is the last straw
It’s just been announced that a sculpture depicting colonial defiance is one of the two winners that will next occupy Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.
According to the BBC News website, Samson Kambalu's Antelope
restages a Baptist preacher, John Chilembwe, and a European missionary, John
Chorley. Chilembwe is wearing a hat in defiance of the then-colonial rule that
denied Africans the right to wear hats in front of white people. On the plinth,
Chilembwe is larger than life, Chorley is much smaller next to him, “elevating the
African’s story and revealing the hidden narratives of under-represented people
in the British Empire”.
I for one am sitting on my hands and looking the other way.
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