@2000Jcc1 Indeed they are. I only draw about things that concern me, though. I hope you can understand that. I absolutely appreciate that some people will go off me, or expect me to comment on things that I choose not to. That's fine. That's art. All the best.
It's curious that so many people are offended by seeing an institution that's spent 6 years persecuting and murdering the citizens it claims to serve, not being shown totally unearned levels of reverence by a tattooed Scottish woman in a short skirt.
And that double-think, the willingness to abandon all the positions you had yesterday simply because you want to score some points and get some clicks today, the inability to understand that you are being manipulated into inadvertent hypocrisy, is exactly why nothing improves.
...But if you're somebody who has previously acknowledged that democracy is a sham and the entire system is a thinly veiled tyrannical machine, and you then complketely contradict yourself just because you think she's irritating, you're just as ridiculous as she is.
'A Gap in the Hedgerow'
David Hockney
2004
Loose, underworked beauty, and the elusive skill of finding deeper meaning through measured simplicity.
And smoking.
Well, you see, some absolute wanker locked us all up for two years, divided families, encouraged a culture of fear and suspicion, and injected millions of people with dangerous toxins. It inevitably created a lot of pent up rage and shattered our fundamental values to pieces.
π¨ NEW: HMRC has given trans taxpayers lifetime access to a VIP phone line which answers calls twice as fast
It claims access is needed to ensure βgreater protectionβ of trans people under equality laws
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