I’ve been involved in the antique & fine art business all my life; in fact I entered the family business right after I had completed my formal education. With antique collecting very much in vogue, I thought it would be a good idea to find out what the thinking was behind the design of the many different pieces of furniture that were manufactured in bygone days. The words "gueridon", "chiffonier" and "secretaire" may not sound unfamiliar ...
One of the things that always interested me about Maggie Poppins is that she seemed to have no sense of humour & lacked empathy. She was a science graduate. She may have been able to collect & collate data intelligently, but she seemed unimaginative & didn't appear to understand that reality actually exists outside of a test tube or a petri dish. I think that this basic, almost autistic, inability to empathise or even sympathise with the majority of the people she harmed ...
Updated 06-03-2013 at 07:56 AM by Red-Headed
When Thatcher came into power in 1979 one in seven children lived in poverty, only a year after she was in power it was one in three. I don't call that progress. She created strife where there was none before, accusing the miners of being the enemy within. Even police officers now admit they were ordered to start the violence against them. She destroyed them as revenge for the perception that they had brought down the Heath government. We import (virtually) all of our coal ...
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