Flowers on the Edge
This is a subject that has troubled me for some years and despite councils being urged to let nature take its course, their mowing fraternity continue to wantonly attack swathes of wildness on our ver ...
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Retired police officer recognised for protecting pensioners from scams
Michael Hall, a retired police officer, received a Hero Award at the Trading Standards Institute’s (TSI) Conference in Harrogate on Thursday for the significant contribution he made to consumer protec ...
Film noir, Claude Monet, modern architecture and World War 2 Buddies
Robert Tanitch reviews four books published by Taschen. FILM NOIR 100 ALL-TIME FAVOURITES edited by Paul Duncan and Jurgen Miller (Taschen £34.99). The shadows are deep and the angles are oblique. F ...
Racial inequality versus 18th Century English social classes
Joyce Glasser reviews Belle (June 13, 2014) Cert 12, 99 min. Belle tells the story behind an unusual 1799 painting by Zoffany that shows two attractive, fashionable young ladies, one white and one bla ...