Yes, the camera compensated for the fact that I had pointed it directly at the sun, and the real sky was so much peachier than this, but I like it, even though it's not what my eyes witnessed.
Today was not the day to seek a quiet tête-à-tête with the MD about workplace bullying, but it's still right up there on my personal agenda – I've even worked out the workable approach.
But today was the day that Sunak cancelled a meeting with Mitsotakis because of a difference of opinion about artistic providence despite the fact that the agenda of their meeting was to be about flotillas of migrants arriving by sea in dinghies.
The Parthenon marbles were stolen from Greece by an English toff who paid the occupying Turkish Pashas to turn a blind eye to their theft. English toff and poet, Byron, was so infuriated by the arrogance of Elgin that he remains a hero in Greece even now.
The only equivalent grand-scale larceny I am aware of that has miraculously avoided the scales of justice is Deutsche Bank, who had a great many wealthy Jewish clients in the late 30s – early 40s. Those clients disappeared without trace and so the bank used the contents of their unclaimed vaults to finance death camps and transport infrastructure, except where art was concerned, and those artworks still grace the walls of Deutsche Bank HQ.
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