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Does it tempt you?
S- Listen Ms Nice what's the price? R- Look , i gave you a great review for your new compilation of poetry; how was I to know that my...
Apr 21, 2018


NHS Wins Gold
NHS Wins Gold, a victory in austerity and in the best of times: For sane and sense the NHS is a common wealth best spent. The NHS has...
Apr 19, 2018


For Randall's editor
R- Think wider readership! Don't see this as a form S- There's noway I'm interested in form filling to explain my inner-thinking. I...
Apr 18, 2018


Jesus the strategist
Jesus the strategist, organizer and preparer for 4/5 millennia from his death on the cross and his subsequent resurrection As an...
Apr 13, 2018


Narrative : Rationing is my middle name
R- Hardly putting yourself out by mi casa es tu casa SP- Rationing is a complex business R- War time rationing in the 21st century?...
Apr 3, 2018


The pantry will one day be bare
Why were the great days of the British war-time spirit now relegated to the history books? Why is my generation suffering from the...
Mar 31, 2018


The peoples paradox? Conspiracy or counter conspiracy? Or both?
The peoples paradox? Conspiracy or counter conspiracy? Or both? When does anger politicize itself into a sectarian outrage? Why is a...
Mar 29, 2018


I wouldn't be without my Greenshield stamps
R- What about your greenshield stamps and vouchers and what have you? SP- How the hell did you know about that? R- I read your diary ...
Mar 26, 2018


Sporting Listener Interview
Interview of Stephen Hornsby-Smith by Glane Cadallovic of the Sporting Listener G- I want to ask you about a departure for you by the use...
Mar 23, 2018


'Nationalism' in Cornwall and Yorkshire
An Irish woman once said to me that the English' who for tax reasons put down roots in Eire are more Nationalistically Irish than the...
Mar 7, 2018


Odd bed fellows :social democracy and nationalism?
And I thought the UK's problems with immigration was not of social democracies making!?! Perhaps we are used to the pride and even...
Mar 2, 2018


Covering all bases and spreading your bets
Mythologizing the mundane, packaging the indigestible, producing,directing and starring in his own' self-voyeuristic pastiche...What?...
Feb 21, 2018


Why the British Library?
- Why are we eating fish and chips in the 'British Library Randall? - I know where they keep their stash of vinegar - Perhaps a morgue...
Feb 20, 2018


Have the wheels really come off the bandwagon of 'Painting'?
Have the wheels really come off the bandwagon of 'Painting'? No, not at all. We should celebrate 160-ish years of modernist Art, but we...
Feb 19, 2018


Since when did form replace Art?
From Koons back to Warhol back to Picasso will give us our answer. But specifically it was Picasso's ego that feared Matisse had stolen a...
Feb 16, 2018


The 'outsider or the insider'? Which do you trade Art with?
The medium of Painting has been revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, a trailblazer and remains an honourable medium. Practitioner's...
Feb 8, 2018


Galleries aren't my scene
Galleries aren't my scene - too much scenery, and not enough gallery. - Stephen Hornsby-Smith?! A bloody double-barrel? Where did you get...
Jan 27, 2018


Upgrade, a repro or a challenge to the stasis of the Painting medium?
The medium of Painting today could be transformed by a formal odd-bed fellow - a Print tattooed onto a canvas resurrected from the past...
Jan 12, 2018


A Pinch and a Punch doesn't have to bring up the Lunch
A Pinch and a Punch doesn't have to bring up the Lunch, but it can shake things up a bit. We live in an era of 'cartoon thinking', where...
Dec 16, 2017


Not looking in the right areas
False conversation and falsification by fixation on water that should have been left under the bridge. Not looking in the right areas -...
Dec 7, 2017
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