15 12, 2020

Kamila Shamsi and the heartbreak of not telling stories because of ‘appropriation’

By |December 15th, 2020|Categories: China, Art & History, Cultural Appropriation, Lost History, Oxford, The Stars ArtMovement|0 Comments

  https://www.guernicamag.com/shamsie_02_01_2012/? I hate stereotypes and dislike of them is  I believe the motivation for the sad ‘appropriation ‘saga. The wonderful Kamila Shamsi rightly  wonders in this link - why there should be obstacles to telling peoples stories.  For 18

3 12, 2020

Mark Carney -the shark and an untold story

By |December 3rd, 2020|Categories: Oxford, Oxford Castaways, The Oxford Times|0 Comments

Did you listen and watch the first Reith lecture by Mark Carney? The topic was ‘From moral to market sentiments’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0900t1x/the-reith-lectures-2020-mark-carney-how-we-get-what-we-value-lecture-1-from-moral-to-market-sentiments? It came as a surprise when in answer to a question by Anita Anand, he said he had taken

28 08, 2020

My features crop up in surprising places. Hope amid the turmoil?

By |August 28th, 2020|Categories: Art, The Oxford Times|0 Comments

More memories . I am often surprised  that Newsquest recycle features of mine that I wrote for The Oxford Times. They  publish them online  all over the country like this one in  The Warrington Guardian . http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/10582069.Turner_and_Constable__Sketching_from_Nature__Compton_Verney/ It’s interesting reading