A Beautiful Disorder: Chinese sculptors exhibited in Britain for first time

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This could be good. Exhibition — A Beautiful Disorder 3 July—6 November, 2016 Grounds and Galleries The Cass Sculpture Foundation New Barn Hill Goodwood Chichester PO18 0QP Free with general entry Cass Sculpture Foundation is delighted to present A Beautiful Disorder, the first major exhibition of newly commissioned outdoor sculpture by contemporary Greater Chinese artists […]

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Summer cocktails with Madam Miaow: borage, Pimms and Bowie Moscow Mules

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EDIT: Apologies but the flower in the picture has been identified as green alkanet or pentaglottis sempervirens, not borage (although it’s close) which has star-shaped flowers. It is a relative of the forget-me-not and borage. Edible, used as a substitute for true borage in Pimms. Try floating three flowers on top of your Pimms —

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Helena Bonett’s Tate film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio in St Ives screened

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I’m delighted to learn that Helena Bonett’s film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio — now a Tate St Ives museum — includes a clip of my 2006 video (above) and is now out doing the rounds. Next screening 15th June at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. From the DVD cover: Trewyn Studio in St Ives,

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WASPI women’s pensions were in surplus but RAIDED: restore our pensions

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I love it when we women work together. A fellow WASPI has sent me the following illuminating submission to the Work and Pensions Committee from Rita Abrahams, which is crying out to be read far and wide. Ms Abrahams has done a sterling bit of detective work and calculated that not only are we NOT

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Michael Gove Wanted Me To Powder Him Down

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Time to revisit my encounter of the turd kind with Michael Gove in the noughties … Sad-sack Education Minister Michael Gove helped himself to make-up belonging to an exotic lovely and made strange demands minutes before appearing before blonde Kirsty Young, 27, at ITN’s studios in posh intellectuals’ haunt, Grays Inn Road. “It was when

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Osborne clobbers low paid freelancers and deals fresh blow to women born in the 1950s in Budget 2016

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So you wanna be a writer?  Budget 2016: Low paid freelancers are likely to see their NICs INCREASE five-fold from Class 2 £2.80 pw to Class 3 £14.10 pw Women born in the 1950s have been truly gang-banged by George Osborne and his Tory cohort. While the rich saw their income triple since the 2008

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