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Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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£52bn annual sales for the Art World! Art World’s estimated total annual sales of over £52billion ( $65  billion) like, Venice’s rich displays art, old, new, and compete with parties in private palazzi and billionaires’ boats. Yet art traders are struggling to convert the next generation of enthusiasts into committed buyers. Prices, ownership, and conditions that reveal the limits of a market with no overarching oversight, which still relay on handshakes, and the hidden code of conduct. In the last year art advisor Lisa Schiff whose clients include Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, stands accused of running a Ponzi scheme amid a legal claim … Continue reading Friendship, fraud, scams, shady deals and Fine Art

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Wales school stabbing leaving shocked teacher seriously hurt

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Police and  two air ambulances were called out to Ysgol Dyffryn Amman Valley School  a Welsh secondary school, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, after Liz Hopkin (53), a special needs teacher was stabbed in the neck four times by a female pupil during an attack is seriously ill but has been sent home to recuperate. Three people and a  pupil were injure in the attack at around 11:!5am on Wednesday. Worried parents waited for several hours at the gates of the school, which was “in lockdown”, before being tearfully reunited with their children as the school day ended. A teenage girl has … Continue reading Wales school stabbing leaving shocked teacher seriously hurt

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Culture no longer weapon against human morality

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Oliver Roy, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, says “ Our world is flattened as linguistic diversity is replaced by Basic English, expression by emoticons, culture  by identity-markers”. Roy draws on his long experience in both academia and public life, but with provocativeness  and tackles the issue of the culture wars explaining today’s fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values, illuminating, if home is a place that … Continue reading Culture no longer weapon against human morality

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STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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“Wrighty” had four decades on Radio One and Radio Two and also hostednumerous Top of The Pops programmes. He once flew to New York andbooked into a hotel and listened to local radio stations to garner good materialand concepts for his own shows. His amazing sense of humour was popularlyregarded as “zany”.Recently he had been on a weight loss journey, his heaviest weight havingbeen 18 stone and he was trying to achieve 12 stone. He was married forfourteen years to Cyndi Robinson and the couple had two children – Tom andLucy. “Wrighty” was said to have been a multimillionaire. Tom … Continue reading STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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Anne Nightingale dies aged 83- BBC Radio One’s first female DJ

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Annie Avril Nightingale – 1 April 1940 to 11 Jan 2024 This lady blazed a trail as first female Radio 1 DJ broadcasting pop music to the enthusing masses and also presenting Top of the Pops. She was known to fans as “The Queen of Breaks” – breakfast being her subject of specialist interest. She also broadcast on the famous “Old Grey Whistle Test” and was known as a new contender in the “Husband Substitute” for those used to only male presenters to get listeners up or jolly the listeners on during the day. She said ” I became the … Continue reading Anne Nightingale dies aged 83- BBC Radio One’s first female DJ