The Destruction of the Library of Athens, Thomas Cole Alas! If you only knew how soon, how very soon, things will be different…...

Woodsman with Felled Tree, Edvard Munch You see this [bullet]? This is this. This ain’t something else. This. Is this. The Deer Hunter...

An Election Entertainment, William Hogarth, 1755 I never lied to ya. I’ve always been cool. Don’t wanna be elected. With apologies to...

The late Cannon Hinnant Hey white boy. What you doin’ uptown? Lou Reed, Waitin’ for the Man It is unlikely that there are many...

Paul Cézanne, Self-portrait, 1875 This is the age of division. Those politicians who state that a certain event ‘will not divide us’...

A Theological Debate, Eduard Frankfort, 1888 Nadia Whittome is a Labour MP. Yes, I know, but please read on, I implore you. She has...

Destitution (Poverty), Jakub Schikaneder, 1884 Said baby I’m gone stay witchoo ‘Til the money runs out Tom Waits A while ago, I defined...

Old Man in Sorrow, Vincent van Gogh, 1890 In these wind-whipped and turbulent times, it is easy to forget. The klieg lights of the media...

The 46th/47th President of the USA? When Alexander de Tocqueville visited America in the early 19th-century, an extended vacation that...

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Duel after the Masquerade, 1857 Secret, secret, never seen… David Bowie, The Secret Life of Arabia It is one of the...

Second of May 1808 in Madrid orThe Fight Against the Mamelukes, Goya Fashion. What a fickle mistress, and yet how she does beguile us,...

Three Philosophers, Giorgione (?), 1509 Six months is a long time. I tried living in the real world Instead of a shell. But, before I...

Who ya gonna call? There is a war Between the ones who say there is a war And the ones who say that there isn’t. Leonard Cohen, There is...

Fake noose? Catch the Frisby! Political belief is not simply the holding of a position which pertains to a particular and partisan view...

Forget Islamists, beware the far-Right! Photo taken at a car-boot sale in Surrey earlier today We have become used to semantic...

Jean Raspail, who died last week. We can't say we weren't warned. A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground...

Who ya gonna call? Saul Alinsky – The Right needs you! ‘To fuck your enemies, first you have to seduce your allies’. Saul Alinsky If the...

Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, John Martin, circa 1823-1827 Just think of all the hell we’ve kicked up around the country with...

Think there might be just a tad too much immigration? This is you and your mates, yesterday In polite society – and nota bene, ‘polite’...

Prisoners Exercising (after Gustave Doré), Vincent van Gogh, 1890 Hello and welcome to Politburo Park for the five minutes to midnight...