Ed Isaacs 🇺🇦

Wolverhampton artist, curator and writer - traveller - enthusiastic urban sketcher - Chair of Trustees and President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

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@theiaincameron Fascinating - when I was in Sicily, I visited one of the ancient Albanian-speaking communities at Piana degli Albinese

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RBSA on Tour

A great team effort on Friday hanging all the artworks for RBSA on Tour at Winterbourne House. The exhibition looks fantastic showing members’ artwork at their best in historic surroundings. The house and gardens are well worth visiting.

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Some sketches from a few days away in Devon – boats at Appledore; Lighthouse at Hartland Point; Saint Nectans, Hartland; headstone on the grave of ���Borrowers’ author, Mary Norton, at Saint Nectan’s

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@andyburnham £210m - gosh, you could get a small railway bridge on Oxford for that!

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This is total tosh - the BBC is inventing a problem and spinning it as news.

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As someone who works for the BBC and knows how absurdly difficult it can be to get pieces commissioned for the website - the hoops, the meetings, the endless process - it’s genuinely staggering that something like this sails through.

For starters, it isn’t news. Yet there it is on the BBC News website, complete with twaddle about how the way a woman does - or doesn’t do - her nails can apparently be linked to white supremacy.

I was blissfully unaware of the supposed politicisation of nail polish, and I’m sure most people were. But by reporting claims like this, the BBC doesn’t simply observe a debate - it helps create one. It amplifies a narrative and gives prominence to voices that seem determined to detect white supremacy in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

There’s something deeply unhealthy about that. Imagine the BBC publishing an article suggesting some equally trivial cultural habit was evidence of a “black supremacist mindset”. You can’t really imagine it, because it would never happen. Yet the nation’s broadcaster apparently has no difficulty amplifying extraordinary claims about white supremacy.

This is the sort of thing that makes me despair about the BBC. I’ve criticised it for years for being captured by progressive ideology, identity politics and gender woo-woo. Every so often I start to wonder whether things might finally be improving.

Then an article like this appears and disabuses me of that notion pretty quickly.

If anything, the problem seems to be getting worse.

“How the bare nails trend became a class issue” https://t.co/PZyzuUPvsT

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The Old Crown Inn, Deritend - the only complete medieval survival of old Birmingham C15th former guildhall and school - now a pub #drawingseptember

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@KitchandBot Hopefully there will eventually be a book

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St Mary, Handsworth - the ‘Westminster Abbey of Birmingham’. Memorials to James Watt, Matthew Boulton and William Murdock. Open last Saturday for Birmingham Heritage Week. It has a medieval tower, but pretty much everything else rebuilt in C19

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More old Birmingham - St Peter, Harborne #drawingseptember

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More old Birmingham - Aston Hall (1618-35) - #drawingseptember

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More from old Birmingham - St Edburgha, Yardley, one of the few medieval buildings left within the city’s boundary. The timber-framed former Yardley Trust School is in the foreground.

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@RichardBratby Followed by this - class takes all sorts of forms

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@RichardBratby This was literally the first post I saw after yours

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We're thrilled to be hosting The Guild of Aviation Artists and their extraordinary exhibition Defence Of The Realm.

Galleries 1 and 2 are jam packed with artworks created by Members, Associates, and Friends of the Guild, the exhibition runs until Saturday 26 September at 5.00pm.

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@brumdispatch I think you meant to say Greater Wolverhampton

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@RichardBratby @ClarkesLatin My dad’s hair oil used to go all over the antimacassars, so mum put antimacassars on top of the antimacassars

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@shuranjeetsingh Well done!

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Chuffed that my large drawing’Mud’ has been selected to be shown at the @rbsagallery Prize Exhibition in October

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More of old Birmingham - St Laurence, Northfield - next to the Great Stone Inn - an old village in the heart of a suburb #drawingoctober

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A rare glimpse of pre-modern Birmingham - St Nicholas Kings Norton and neighbouring buildings %drawingseptember