It takes zero effort to be reasonable. Being cheap is just exhausting.

Sadly, you have to grit your teeth and let it go; if they're paying it's their call. Just don't be like them. That's enough.

Too messy. Too busy. Just… too much effort. Is she visibly puffing? Less is more Mad, less is more…

Is she referencing the bottle suck? Perhaps. Not sure I care.

Meanwhile, in Hollywood heaven…

That's absolutely accurate (although few of them know who Dietrich was these days, so there is confusion), she can be quite affecting when singing quite simply to spare arrangements, I see her singing protest songs while playing a residency at the Carlyle (well-intentioned but slightly misplaced), in her dotage or…

I don't think she was ever revolutionary, but she's always been provocative and a clear case of style over content. She was never profound, pop stars aren't, to anyone over twenty five anyway. That narcissism which is deemed charming at twenty-two may well become deemed pitiful at fifty-two, but she's clearly still…

So what about the tertiary repercussions?

The Queen Mum is definitely sans Corgis , she's sans breath or heartbeat since 2002.

That was very well said.

They're properly trained and initially inexpensive. I asked someone in the decision making world in the film racket recently why there are so many Brit men, black and white (this migration is not defined by race), and she said it's because the local talent is infantilised into perpetual boys, there's something…

I recently took a three hour architectural tour which circumnavigates the island. It amazed me that so much had been done, redone and undone in such an incredibly short period of time; all the blasting, tunnelling, carving and fording. It's wonderful to look at it all from its periphery and see all the historical…

Thank you. I hooted like a Bonobo at your comment.

Rashida is sharp as a knife and a Lady.

And… sometimes burn.

As does The Met, The Louvre, All the Berlin Museums, Turin and the Cairo Museum itself; in fact pretty much every Museum in the world. In fact, Egypt leaves much of its sculpture out in the open. Imagine?

Well here you have wholly African curation of wholly African heritage in 2015; good luck. One's opinion on the vanquishing of the Ashanti Empire rather depends on whether you were one of its beneficiaries or victims I suspect. Win your wars and you really will not have any problems with control of your cultural…

There are diligent and professional curators in Egypt, but not all of them work at the Cairo Museum and some who do, aren't. I have no doubt that many local curators are as mortified as the rest of us, but in this case outside criticism is entirely justified. The responsible curators are feeble-minded dolts for doing…

The problem with Afrocentrism is that it just repeats the stupidities of Eurocentrism. The truth, is always more subtle and nuanced, but there's little room for that in internet identity politics.

All true. Have you seen the state of those left in Athens? Dissolved.