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Lives and ways of expressing emotions have witnessed a pronounced shift during these past 12 months. Normality has been replaced by a dehumanising reality that has regressed the traditionally mundane into a warped counterpart. Devices like the computer and the mobile phone have become windows, opening up into our minds and souls. Pawlu Mizzi The externalisation of our thoughts, opinions, emotions and hopes have become intricately dependent on social media. Human interaction has on occasions bee...

John Minihan on Francis Bacon: Champagne and paint splatters in Soho John Minihan 9 min read The Francis Bacon I knew had a reserve in him. He also had that Irish love for gambling and drinking and a perpetual desire to be somewhere else Francis Bacon was a man whom I both knew and did not know. There was a reserve in him that discouraged familiarity, and he was happier in t...

THE National Trust has planted more than a thousand saplings, just weeks after villagers criticised the charity for chopping up riverside trees. Residents of Buscot, much of which is owned by the National Trust, hit out after willows were pollarded along a stretch of the River Thames in February. The trust said that the traditional practice involved ‘cutting back riverbank willows to the height of two to three metres, and is carried out on a regular cycle of approximately 10 years’. ...

21 phrases and words only people from Merseyside will understand From lolly ice to antwacky, we have a dialect all of our own Updated Beatles fans stop to have their picture taken with the Beatles statue at the Pier Head in Liverpool Look back at great photos and memories from years ago with our Days Gone By newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they�...

Francis Bacon in his studio, 1967 Credit: Ian Berry/Magnum Photos It was dark outside but, in the lamplit tobacco clouds of the Colony Room Club in Soho, the proprietor Ian Board, his great swollen nose flushed with anger, had hopped down from his barstool perch by the door and was shouting at Francis Bacon with cries like a dog’s bark, his voice rough as a cheese-grater. Grabbing an umbrella from the back of the stool, he began to belabour the world’s foremost artist about the shoulders as...

Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter’s final days Porter’s tribute to Bacon is a short work, dense with allusions, somewhere between a prose-poem and a play script. Francis Bacon was very particular about the way his works were displayed. He chose theatrical gold frames and decreed that the paintings themselves – the brushwork that “slips, slurps, smears, flares, blurs, fades, evaporates, abruptly dematerialises”, as the art critic Tom Lubbock p...

This brief, fragmentary book by Max Porter is an attempt to fill the silence of those last six days from within the painter’s head. Written in an allusive and sometimes vividly poetic shorthand, it tries to capture in language some of the texture of Bacon’s tormented canvases, as well as the chaos of his love life. The book is divided into seven chapters of no more than eight small pages. All the chapters begin with Bacon’s invitation to his nurse to sit by his bedside while his ...

Published: 1:19 PM December 9, 2020    Updated: 11:18 AM December 16, 2020 John Deakin, 81, pictured with nurse Ruth Osis, was the first person to receive his COVID-19 vaccine at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Picture: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - Credit: Archant An 81-year-old man from Stevenage has been the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccination from Lister Hospital. John Deakin was first in line for the injection this morning, receiving it shortly after 8am – and ha...

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