Digested week: good old British common sense has people besieging the beaches
by John Crace from on (#552CW)
The fun times are back, but who knew people would interpret Boris's upbeat message by breaking out in Bournmouth?
I'd never heard of Murillo's Immaculate Conception before I saw the photos of its restoration that made the painting look like some piece of tat you used to be able to buy in Woolworth's for less than 5. Much like I'd never come across the Ecce Homo church mural in Spain before an elderly parishioner generously transformed it into something that more closely resembled a chimp.
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