tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36716754318524439952024-03-11T03:23:36.047+00:00Drawing from an uncomfortable positionIsobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.comBlogger281125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-36622200867250829612023-10-14T11:44:00.000+01:002023-10-14T11:44:11.306+01:00Catullus Bound: exhibition of drawings and books, Senate House<p><i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEL0LTwMYiA0vRDMlnxTZV5N5ZfK4mr4JutaA6lLbAMt-2D8n2BtevlJVu8N2bslGvjAomliakX2E0NYJsyP_43XBSsZrL0CHTSoP5Arf29U_PpHjjTQ2anyOtUW5sfpqIcX7zZprwc8YDkv1mBAFAc2lq2BOn9UmMXFWYnpOVDIc7nNEq4drrZms9ch4/s4068/The%20Poet%201%20LOW%20RES%20_DMI0043_DxO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4068" data-original-width="2953" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEL0LTwMYiA0vRDMlnxTZV5N5ZfK4mr4JutaA6lLbAMt-2D8n2BtevlJVu8N2bslGvjAomliakX2E0NYJsyP_43XBSsZrL0CHTSoP5Arf29U_PpHjjTQ2anyOtUW5sfpqIcX7zZprwc8YDkv1mBAFAc2lq2BOn9UmMXFWYnpOVDIc7nNEq4drrZms9ch4/s320/The%20Poet%201%20LOW%20RES%20_DMI0043_DxO.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tenshiko tied by Kirigami</td></tr></tbody></table>I’d never heard of Japanese rope bondage (aka shibari, Japanese for ‘to tie’) until a chance meeting led me to draw in a club
for performing this elaborate and consensual pursuit. Its fluctuations between dominance and submission gave me a setting for my translations of Catullus, the poet of hating and wanting.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of my shibari drawings are on show throughout Michaelmas 2023
in the lobby of the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate
House, London. The exhibition leaflet is <a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/pdf/A5BookletSinglePages2.pdf">here</a>. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Showcase 1</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Being a top (the one who ties) is about humility. Being a
bottom is about power. Odysseus takes rope-bottoming to extremes, putting
others in harm’s way for his own gratification. <b>Troy: myth and reality</b> lies open at three images of Odysseus
bound to the mast so that he can safely hear the Sirens.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGnwah6-og_fG4DTucWtjdIthIDfsiJVmSZQjpGRQ2mbmYXNcXaf3nRyZv3zfbHbLxTYknlxeZa5pZHDxRvgGJJM1DqlMorcxZjStUHXjwgnIU2fBxz4veSUDJsfdkgqhabhMLICVz-Brl5GuXjUn94lmANso4-3AikPNMeUPDow8h4OL58BmyRIT-qE/s2829/Exhibition%20me%20and%20Wong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2829" data-original-width="2216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGnwah6-og_fG4DTucWtjdIthIDfsiJVmSZQjpGRQ2mbmYXNcXaf3nRyZv3zfbHbLxTYknlxeZa5pZHDxRvgGJJM1DqlMorcxZjStUHXjwgnIU2fBxz4veSUDJsfdkgqhabhMLICVz-Brl5GuXjUn94lmANso4-3AikPNMeUPDow8h4OL58BmyRIT-qE/s320/Exhibition%20me%20and%20Wong.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Catullus launched an infinity of kiss poems, some of them here: <b>The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern
Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English
Cavaliers</b><i> </i>by Alex Wong.</p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The cover of my <b>Switch: The Complete Catullus</b> is held in place with tiny magnets so
that it won’t curl in the showcase. The Senior Conservator at Senate House
Library, <a name="_Hlk147583246">Salvador Alcántara Peláez</a>, set up the
exhibition with his ingenious bag of tricks, and made something coherent out of my doomed theoretical layout.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Showcase 2</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Jackson, Deputy Librarian at the Institute of Classical
Studies, administers the Hellenic and Roman Library’s rare books. He supplied a
beautiful <b>C. Valerii Catulli Opera</b> combined with Propertius and Tibullus
(Paris, 1685). At his suggestion it lies open at poem 8, ‘Miser Catulle…’, in
which the poet unconvincingly orders himself to get over his failed affair with
his nemesis, Lesbia.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: center;">The human condition makes bondage a powerful metaphor. I chose
two poems to illustrate this and Lucy Evans, Head of Collections at Senate
House Library, selected exquisite rare books in response to my brief: ‘small’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Poems, &c. by John Donne, late Dean of St. Pauls</b><i>
</i>(Henry Herringman, 1669)</p><b>Holy Sonnet XIV </b><br />Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you <br />As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; <br />That I may rise and stand, o'rthrow me, and bend <br />Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. <br />I, like an usurpt Town to another due, <br />Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end; <br />Reason your Viceroy in me, me should defend, <br />But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue. <br />Yet dearly I love you and would be lov'd fain, <br />But am betroth'd unto your enemy; <br />Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, <br />Take me to you, imprison me, for I <br />Except you enthral me, never shall be free, <br />Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
<p class="MsoNormal">From <b>Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine
of Robert Herrick, Esq.</b> (John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648):</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>The Braclet to</i> Julia. </b><br />Why I tye about thy wrist,<br />Julia, this my silken twist;<br />For what other reason is't<br />But to shew thee how in part,<br />Thou my pretty Captive art?<br />But thy Bondslave is my heart:<br />’Tis but silke that bindeth thee,<br />Knap the thread, and thou art free:<br />But ’tis otherwise with me;<br />I am bound, and fast bound so, <br />That from thee I cannot go; <br />If I co’d, I wo’d not so.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Showcase 3 </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSxpaRN65PSRT6GTvXWTwrray6I7pde1Ebuc-ISBaxQYnOlsF2By-cKl_cIzasx_OrTnszJs86mU2QPG9qLXUyLOtQXWnwYl-AteWaMb5kLTPibpQFdXhYjbCupUUhEEVlAojbYiMAWCyU84pvGZQNYqyM_fCYo2pVsiN8uXlVTBLZHFKuaCfcRJlXJw/s6188/Poem%202%20_DMI0044_DxO%20low%20res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6188" data-original-width="4134" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSxpaRN65PSRT6GTvXWTwrray6I7pde1Ebuc-ISBaxQYnOlsF2By-cKl_cIzasx_OrTnszJs86mU2QPG9qLXUyLOtQXWnwYl-AteWaMb5kLTPibpQFdXhYjbCupUUhEEVlAojbYiMAWCyU84pvGZQNYqyM_fCYo2pVsiN8uXlVTBLZHFKuaCfcRJlXJw/s320/Poem%202%20_DMI0044_DxO%20low%20res.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss Bones tied by Fred Hatt</td></tr></tbody></table></span></i>Catullus was often censored. Richard Espley, now Chief Librarian at the National Art Library in
the V&A, advised me to look in Senate House Library’s Craig Collection.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The British writer and poet Alec Craig (1897-1973) amassed
books on sexuality and erotica, including banned or censored works. I picked <b>Le Livre d’amour des anciens </b>(Bibliothèque
des Curieux, Paris, 1912), open at anonymous French translations of Catullus –
including, in poem 32, a comparatively chaste ‘prépare-toi
à me reçevoir neuf fois de suite dans tes bras’ where Catullus promises nine
frank ‘fututiones’.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Swinging Catullx</b> contains
gender-fluid versions of Catullus based in Dr Maureen Almond’s Teesside, where
she also locates Horace. <b>Living Classics: Greece and Rome in contemporary
poetry in English </b>edited by S.J. Harrison is open at her
version of Horace Epode 2, pervaded by the menace of pigs’ trotters.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrea Brady’s <b>Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric
Constraint</b> focuses on the works of
people who are imprisoned, enslaved or oppressed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Showcase 4</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Catullus influenced Virgil.<b> </b>Paul Jackson produced a first edition of the Baskerville Virgil<i>,
</i><b>Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis</b>, printed in
Birmingham in 1757. Recalling our A-Levels, we agreed to show <i>Aeneid</i>,
Book 4.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUfkqkTFajxcpRtrRe0i6_TUZpnBIzh81avK3FLuMmvnCiRsqYINGOMpN-vBKh6MSGujuA-nANtiQESMC3qhOoF_yGdVMx-9Izmhy9yb_IaALwo0dbsFbuXpogNuqAyOMXrdP9J9vETEvGSz7JkBqO6BeYjYoUSC-USFcLnNl41wKlYpTqjQvhXu5sfU/s2009/Virgil%20ICS%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1393" data-original-width="2009" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUfkqkTFajxcpRtrRe0i6_TUZpnBIzh81avK3FLuMmvnCiRsqYINGOMpN-vBKh6MSGujuA-nANtiQESMC3qhOoF_yGdVMx-9Izmhy9yb_IaALwo0dbsFbuXpogNuqAyOMXrdP9J9vETEvGSz7JkBqO6BeYjYoUSC-USFcLnNl41wKlYpTqjQvhXu5sfU/s320/Virgil%20ICS%20blog.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">John Baskerville (1706-75) asked James Whatman the Elder
(1702-59) to make a new ultra-smooth wove paper, facilitating the ‘kiss
impression’ – the lightest possible pressure of printing on the surface – required
by the detail of his Baskerville font.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Virgil influenced Dante.<b> B (After
Dante) </b>(Carcanet) is an acclaimed interpretation by Ned Denny.<br /><br />‘Hands tied behind with living ropes that reared to hiss<br />at their loins where head and tail were knotted tight’</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shibari performance usually involves suspension. Plato
describes a chain of artistic suspension in <b>Ion</b>: ‘One poet is suspended
from one Muse, another from another: the word we use for it is
“possessed,” but it is much the same thing, for he is held. And from these
first rings — the poets — are suspended various others, which are thus
inspired, some by Orpheus and others by Musaeus; but the majority are possessed
and held by Homer.’</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Open at this passage is <b>Plato: The Statesman, Philebus</b>
(translation by Harold N. Fowler); <b>Ion</b> (translation by W.R.M. Lamb),
Loeb 164, 1925.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>With thanks to Joanna Ashe and Paul Jackson of the
Hellenic and Roman Library/Institute of Classical Studies, and Lucy Evans and
Salvador Alcántara Peláez of Senate House Library.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-17288468378069581642022-07-11T12:37:00.001+01:002022-07-11T13:14:52.219+01:00On having it easy, and not, and my beautiful mother<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUmXCExErC0Bu9_fLAm3U_m7u7_-PiSO_oeWG1j2cbg2kD1o5s49VCfp56UPa_UBbvrv_6eM754it9z0J3vjFMsjOyPCGIVQuvgj-KtSTJda205C9sQ5Hap3JfMY6nyjVLrjmeAX9fOVLRRctVXqX_gt1kFNQbqPs-sZgYQFscPpkV8TvW9sLY3UfN/s944/Mummy%20and%20cat%20cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kathleen Rixon, my mother" border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="636" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUmXCExErC0Bu9_fLAm3U_m7u7_-PiSO_oeWG1j2cbg2kD1o5s49VCfp56UPa_UBbvrv_6eM754it9z0J3vjFMsjOyPCGIVQuvgj-KtSTJda205C9sQ5Hap3JfMY6nyjVLrjmeAX9fOVLRRctVXqX_gt1kFNQbqPs-sZgYQFscPpkV8TvW9sLY3UfN/w270-h400/Mummy%20and%20cat%20cropped.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathleen, my mother</td></tr></tbody></table><i>I wrote this for a college old girls' thing. I was pleased to be told it 'might not meet their criteria' as it is about not meeting their criteria.</i><p></p><p>My mother Kathleen had left home, which had not been
happy, by the age of 16. Her father, a good man whom I never met, was a
stonemason on the Earl of Pembroke’s estate in Wiltshire; he rented a damp tied
cottage with a spider-haunted outside toilet and poached the Earl’s trout in
the River Nadder which ran past the garden.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She became a telephonist. Allied Command was based at Wilton
House and she once disconnected Winston Churchill so that she could speak to
him – ‘Trying to connect you.’ As her job was in the civil service she had to
give it up on marriage to a handsome soldier from Toxteth during the war. They
wrote beautifully expressed love letters (you don’t need a formal education for
that) during their wartime years of separation. To my grief she ordered my
father to burn them when she died.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have never met anyone more alert or intelligent than she
was. It rankled with her that her richer cousin Doris had been able to stay at
school for longer. Doris teased my big sister for her ‘book-learning’ but I was
secretly entranced by Doris’s plastic shower curtain with tropical fish on it
and Spanish lady toilet roll cover.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A few feet from my desk is – are – the wooden tongs with
which my mother fiercely stabbed and heaved laundry in the middle of our
council house kitchen. The washing machine was a lidded cauldron on wheels. Attached
to it was a stiff mangle which she turned to squeeze the hot sudsy water into a
metal bucket.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eventually my parents were able to buy a house with slightly
more modern appliances, but homework remained the priority and our mother was
determined that her daughters would not learn to do housework. When I arrived precipitately
at Somerville, without a gap year, I had never boiled an egg and could just
about assemble Vesta packet chow mein. I fell mute around the noisy self-sufficient
boarding school girls.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thought I understood my mother and her tormented anxiety but
it is only now, in a shielding household (the significance of that idiom will
be lost; let it die), cooking dinner every single evening and denied my
Bulgarian cleaning lady (‘I do love Maupassant, don’t you, Isobel?’), that I am
even beginning to learn how much the tongs pinched and wrung. My story is not
unique. Members of this cohort born in the UK were lucky to arrive in the
post-war blip.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-49819442233569154342022-06-08T15:50:00.000+01:002022-06-08T15:50:04.513+01:00RIP Egbert Knight Polycarp Glasgow<h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8295747954056029414" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Egbert Knight Polycarp Glasgow was charming, courteous, elegant and entertaining. I first met him when I was drawing people under the Westway where it flies over Portobello Road. Below are (edited) the posts from that time which feature him. A lovely man, he will be missed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGr5majP1kIB9QgOchUNXsO__A5L_0daZKnwlNFC5Frq1clpd4hRC21wD5QkVviKJyjO24tkpuce7MtKXJqpakVSC8ZVhRrTweM9bgPf56x0jgkoBvU82Slxo23smX2Yo77MjLg8KJXm-aGZWBMF308sSVrTQ4HlfoGdZBF6YFedqiGIVDMNmJ0tTd/s2448/IMG_20160808_153937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGr5majP1kIB9QgOchUNXsO__A5L_0daZKnwlNFC5Frq1clpd4hRC21wD5QkVviKJyjO24tkpuce7MtKXJqpakVSC8ZVhRrTweM9bgPf56x0jgkoBvU82Slxo23smX2Yo77MjLg8KJXm-aGZWBMF308sSVrTQ4HlfoGdZBF6YFedqiGIVDMNmJ0tTd/s320/IMG_20160808_153937.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Monday, 27 June 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-eight.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Drawing under the Westway - day eight</a></h3><div><br /></div><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1974849083115765029" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><st1:city><st1:place>I'm introduced to Clifton</st1:place></st1:city>, aka what sounds like Killer (below).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He doesn’t look like one.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Short for Kilimanjaro,’ he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Ah, I say, ‘snow on the top.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNfCxtcB_PgNiuv8C1m_8dUeT5QGiBZDhT0ZdYjIyeAnhfPaUxLUoHKF61XpBXWvD3NthvSYkcp-XEX1PtF_HgpfXGVqdisPk6ptBXkueYvjbsRSsksGdF4zxpsOFmHWuS7_7hxYZtHVg/s1600/Kilimanjaro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNfCxtcB_PgNiuv8C1m_8dUeT5QGiBZDhT0ZdYjIyeAnhfPaUxLUoHKF61XpBXWvD3NthvSYkcp-XEX1PtF_HgpfXGVqdisPk6ptBXkueYvjbsRSsksGdF4zxpsOFmHWuS7_7hxYZtHVg/s200/Kilimanjaro.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘And everything else all the way down,’ he says. 'What’s your name?’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Isobel.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He laughs. ‘Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus!’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He accepts his picture. ‘You make me look handsome and I’m gonna get some girlfriends.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He takes the picture over to a group of lean weatherbeaten Rastas. I hear raucous rasping laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Egbert (below) detaches himself from the Rasta group. ‘I saw what you did for my friend,’ he says courteously. ‘I clean vehicles for a living and play reggae very loud.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLkGx_9HFH0ZBGNSPbfRLCHxcv0PGLMp7LFq4hUcjLBcZ0DLqadIQ8hBQ0yDX4Z-hfIrvvoFvPKyVsPb9vYKh12qtGoTbquQVzr3GqHyVqkFhipgtxjluvr0O_79xBnELiltuVFEdN8JB/s1600/Egbert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLkGx_9HFH0ZBGNSPbfRLCHxcv0PGLMp7LFq4hUcjLBcZ0DLqadIQ8hBQ0yDX4Z-hfIrvvoFvPKyVsPb9vYKh12qtGoTbquQVzr3GqHyVqkFhipgtxjluvr0O_79xBnELiltuVFEdN8JB/s200/Egbert.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="180" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I draw; he falls asleep with dignity and gradually folds into himself. Perfect. We are peaceful together.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He coughs himself awake and I give him a bottle of water. ‘People say to me why do you speak to all people? I try to read,’ he says. ‘They say I should write my life story but too many people gonna get hurt. I speak the truth. My grandmother says speak the truth and shame ol’ Beelzebub himself. I left <st1:country-region><st1:place>St Lucia</st1:place></st1:country-region> on <st1:date day="8" month="1" year="1959">the eighth of January 1959</st1:date> by boat. My first address here was <st1:street><st1:address>19 Colville Square</st1:address></st1:street>.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A woman stops her car and asks him to clean and vacuum the car on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He studies the picture. Harsh lines let me down but he says: ‘You’ve captured the essence of me. My mother would have been proud of this.’ I go to shake his hand but he says, ‘No, I am from <st1:country-region><st1:place>St Lucia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,’ and kisses my hand three times.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He takes the picture back to his companions and I hear more cackling.</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Tuesday, 28 June 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-nine.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Day nine</a></h3><div><br /></div><h2 class="date-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1653631466685759761" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBGfWU_xZkme3cNCV0UKQ4yXjSlZZT9d2Bb-TdjwBmh-ZSzh83kKR8JC0v7tDtxzVB3J3zvfr1VwKdDT5SEeczEZP56ltB7MIyHUwqCDt4waMBDHC67iLKIhwNe49pwKd39tkKh0pBDd9/s1600/Egbert2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBGfWU_xZkme3cNCV0UKQ4yXjSlZZT9d2Bb-TdjwBmh-ZSzh83kKR8JC0v7tDtxzVB3J3zvfr1VwKdDT5SEeczEZP56ltB7MIyHUwqCDt4waMBDHC67iLKIhwNe49pwKd39tkKh0pBDd9/s200/Egbert2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="159" /></a></div>Another client from yesterday, Egbert, turns up in a black hoodie with cannabis plants emblazoned on the back, a herringbone tweed jacket, a striped shirt and a Haile Selassie sweatshirt. The rain is practically opaque.<br /><br />More thunder. Egbert addresses heaven: 'I hear you. Thank you. Rastafari Jah. Lion of Judah.'<br /><br /></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Thursday, 30 June 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-eleven.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Day eleven</a></h3><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4803361677051289423" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgzvtVmbAffKWHk-yLjOE2fTQhAmFGxno2Uq27H15toJQRoaE0z1zluHL3sQ0pwWXiLho5BAvijJxCHX9QximucodBayHP-8ZznzDv7MIuJf53OqS8MAG5SPrjAUK3pFtFN9DbFvOiS0o/s1600/Egbert3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgzvtVmbAffKWHk-yLjOE2fTQhAmFGxno2Uq27H15toJQRoaE0z1zluHL3sQ0pwWXiLho5BAvijJxCHX9QximucodBayHP-8ZznzDv7MIuJf53OqS8MAG5SPrjAUK3pFtFN9DbFvOiS0o/s200/Egbert3.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="118" /></a>Egbert from St Lucia comes to sit for me again, my spare plastic chair being the main attraction. This time I'm ready for him so I scrawl his head frantically just before it slumps forward in sleep. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Someone wanders over and peers under Egbert's hat. 'You can't get the models these days,' he says.</div></div>'He's my favourite,' I say, and he is, because he allows more time than a restive wide-awake one. (There are other reasons as well.)<br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Wednesday, 6 July 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-thirteen.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Day thirteen</a></h3><div><br /></div><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7356345263784578139" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTmDMB1aPSxZF-qx0yGpau46fm82oyStfaS1VpaFoXcJWh6yJgVUPRXqKGJHaiCgPKNGVybAHJdwj1eJHzs8-eG_iEhyphenhyphendX-Fb_xckca0oBAaMvKRcAZ0lEsFb69OK4lqZDf6L-S9yl0jJ/s1600/Egbert+five+july.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTmDMB1aPSxZF-qx0yGpau46fm82oyStfaS1VpaFoXcJWh6yJgVUPRXqKGJHaiCgPKNGVybAHJdwj1eJHzs8-eG_iEhyphenhyphendX-Fb_xckca0oBAaMvKRcAZ0lEsFb69OK4lqZDf6L-S9yl0jJ/s200/Egbert+five+july.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="199" /></a>Egbert arrives, this time with his supermarket trolley: 'That trolley don't answer me back.' Inside it is a hand-written notice:<br />CAR WASH MAN VERY CHEAP.<br />THIS TROLLEY IS NOT A RUBBISH BIN.<br />SINGED [sic]<br />ST. LUCIAN RASTA.<br /><br />I've no idea why we start talking about the royal family. 'Oh, Margaret, she was a raver. She'd go where royalty is not supposed to. If there was a problem she'd sit down with a bottle of wine or Champagne and deal with it. When Diana died I cried, yes.'<br /><br />He points out that the Notting Hill riots of 1976 began just round the corner, after some boys had stolen jewellery in Queensway: 'Instead of takin' it home and hidin' it they were flashin' it off. A policeman said what's that and the youth said mind your own effin' business. Then it started.'<br /><br />Egbert peers around. 'That man is lookin' at the circumference of that woman.'<br /><br />He holds his picture at arm's length and talks to it: 'You look as ugly as sin. But I like you. You are me. Who said I was as ugly as sin? Oh, I know. My mother.'<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1t2FZmw0UBrb_TqlA-A3neiP0QeMAkM3gY9EzeJxHEO36-eUzEqcmVOmCeXSh-8WssjDzkfxuzeMJQwTgDTyVI2e_tWDcvP_hzchYzoxT1C4U-KBJnsRZgyiEl63fB2p7KgAiRJFtWwHJ/s1600/Benjy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1t2FZmw0UBrb_TqlA-A3neiP0QeMAkM3gY9EzeJxHEO36-eUzEqcmVOmCeXSh-8WssjDzkfxuzeMJQwTgDTyVI2e_tWDcvP_hzchYzoxT1C4U-KBJnsRZgyiEl63fB2p7KgAiRJFtWwHJ/s200/Benjy.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="173" /></a>Benjy [left], profoundly courteous, limps over slowly; I've seen him most days, always elegant with a hat and stick. He arrived here from Dominica in 1960. He announces: 'For deviosity, women are the champions.'<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jacqueline turns up for a chat. I like being generally available, out on the asphalt - a geographical reference point. Turn left at the windswept woman with the drawing board. We talk about drawing children and the risk of making them look like little adults. Study the proportions, she says; there's a roundness to their faces.</div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Wednesday, 27 July 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-sixteen.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Day whatever </a></h3><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><a name="8295747954056029414"></a><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8295747954056029414" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;">Egbert the St Lucian Rasta<br /><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFV1rcXFuB0FfQA_2mnjbwVJV5w3UBm1QJQeNJqPQomClB4NS2ZzD8I4uITOMfkU4BHv_RTR-o6sCsZzSeJ2YwIj_K87AXXQ2wMmoliu61ubC1jH9gbUtBQCtD8AmRG-ZhWmmBmnmiqHH/s1600/Egbert+six.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFV1rcXFuB0FfQA_2mnjbwVJV5w3UBm1QJQeNJqPQomClB4NS2ZzD8I4uITOMfkU4BHv_RTR-o6sCsZzSeJ2YwIj_K87AXXQ2wMmoliu61ubC1jH9gbUtBQCtD8AmRG-ZhWmmBmnmiqHH/s200/Egbert+six.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="177" /></a>soliloquises in his hypnotic voice then begins a rapid dive into sleep. As his head droops I start another drawing. Neither is finished, even by my hazy speed-freak standards: he wakes and has to keep an appointment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Wednesday, 10 August 2011</span></h2><div class="date-posts" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><a name="7448830874463588127"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-17-closeted.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Day 17 - closeted</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7448830874463588127" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;">Yesterday evening, after Monday's looting, Portobello Road was deserted apart from some police and a few listless tourists. Only the chip shop kept going. Today it's business as usual except for the shops that were trashed. I need the view of Egbert, the St Lucian Rasta, on current events. It's like having a colleague.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9WnvAPKbB0fBVbbAh9RLcj81hiBVApvHU29tQwj1CRaXQuC8oL17cl8Jn3R95LSc5-tKQAl4JV1hslP8fffTJ-m4kdDqByKdmpQ1riXffhh6lO-5yJyFNM5AKZAlbvKEndTwgOd547sa/s1600/Egbert+10viii11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9WnvAPKbB0fBVbbAh9RLcj81hiBVApvHU29tQwj1CRaXQuC8oL17cl8Jn3R95LSc5-tKQAl4JV1hslP8fffTJ-m4kdDqByKdmpQ1riXffhh6lO-5yJyFNM5AKZAlbvKEndTwgOd547sa/s200/Egbert+10viii11.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="158" /></a>'There's a new nutter out here,' he announces. 'Just arrived from the madhouse.' I hope I find him soon.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfZ8Y1YAwU0DjW4e7-j2RhlsbY9lQ8MecwHXton0MdeFeMZ_aPArmDZmyl8kz7URtyuW8rUN5fOXgZ4cLkeZKI9j3v1cZ403llFEmPf2tUidl0MQVLfzWRl4Hc3tvSBWkWJ9wT37xptIa/s1600/Egbert+2+10+Aug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfZ8Y1YAwU0DjW4e7-j2RhlsbY9lQ8MecwHXton0MdeFeMZ_aPArmDZmyl8kz7URtyuW8rUN5fOXgZ4cLkeZKI9j3v1cZ403llFEmPf2tUidl0MQVLfzWRl4Hc3tvSBWkWJ9wT37xptIa/s200/Egbert+2+10+Aug.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="134" /></a>I ask Egbert what he thinks about the riots. 'I wasn't around. Someone accused me of being in Hackney. I don't think so. I'm not into confrontation or the rioting business so I stayed here.' </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7448830874463588127" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7448830874463588127" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;">What about the carnival? 'You can't suppress the residents. Let them enjoy themselves, they won't loot or shoot nobody.' He falls asleep with his usual abruptness, wakes, coughs, makes a liquorice paper roll-up, sleeps again.<br /></div></div></div></div><h2 class="date-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Sunday, 28 August 2011</span></h2><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-before-notting-hill-carnival.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">The day before the Notting Hill carnival</a></h3><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><a name="2377166242097104051"></a><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2377166242097104051" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Electric drills as shops board up. Stacks of crush barriers. Portaloos. Tourists at a loss, waiting for fun.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HrT_p7sQemikJZNbSaysgWCvSQyiBKInMT3M6azEQIxMBsGBTiue78Z0GqF66wCd8N2KHK_rkFAmHJSEG0RzufdCoDaTbcL9W4ZRmPH0TzbEOrECcXoKoPRodGYyTu-8I97kx4DNU19S/s1600/Kilimanjaro+27viii11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HrT_p7sQemikJZNbSaysgWCvSQyiBKInMT3M6azEQIxMBsGBTiue78Z0GqF66wCd8N2KHK_rkFAmHJSEG0RzufdCoDaTbcL9W4ZRmPH0TzbEOrECcXoKoPRodGYyTu-8I97kx4DNU19S/s200/Kilimanjaro+27viii11.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8f-s2pyBaMy4i4xkj3bB2HK7OgoYPita-wz72qAzZYRP1ugM4PMa-9qmD-HERfpAGYVgwRc8cNMc3kjoqjCi3tL7gyjjv9_soPZ4ToUiMN6KAe991W_z8MglgF1DX-pGPBPVfc6DWfS3/s1600/Kilimanjaro+2+27viii11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #2288bb; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8f-s2pyBaMy4i4xkj3bB2HK7OgoYPita-wz72qAzZYRP1ugM4PMa-9qmD-HERfpAGYVgwRc8cNMc3kjoqjCi3tL7gyjjv9_soPZ4ToUiMN6KAe991W_z8MglgF1DX-pGPBPVfc6DWfS3/s200/Kilimanjaro+2+27viii11.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">I sit outside a cafe on Portobello Road. Kilimanjaro has been in hospital with stomach pains. </span><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Courtesy of me, a photo of Egbert the St Lucian Rasta has appeared in ES magazine. Tesco's on Portobello Road stocks the Evening Standard but not its aspirational Friday colour magazine, ES, which indicates what the distributors think of Portobello Road. I ask Kilimanjaro what Egbert feels about it. 'It's made him the happiest he's ever been,' he says. (That's an exaggeration but the short article is <a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/pdf/Egbert.pdf">here</a>.)</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2377166242097104051" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br style="font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-weight: 400;">Egbert appears, looking happy and holding a copy of the magazine which looks like papier mache after prolonged handling. I offer to make him a durable copy of the page sealed in plastic. 'One for each of my daughters,' he says. 'I went to a funeral party the other day and for the first time I saw my daughter Victoria in black. She looked WICK-ED.' He walks away, waving. 'I love all women, even the married ones,' he says.</span></div></div></div></div></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Friday, 23 September 2011</span></h2><div class="date-posts" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><a name="793648831179300039"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/09/money.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Walk on by</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-793648831179300039" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;">To the people who found my blog after googling 'notting hill carnival 2011 peeing' - welcome.<br /><br />Out on Portobello I find Kilimanjaro and Egbert the St Lucian Rasta. I tell them I am waiting for Jacqueline, whose husband is a trainee rabbi. 'He trainin' to rabbi,' says Kilimanjaro. Egbert and I admire this greatly but are also jealous that we didn't think of it ourselves.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRolxjpDtyCRW8PkmfbhD2mUPXI5nxYPYSrFBQBRl_t6r_Q69B9XGya31Du9foioxya6NKq8t7JxAwXJGW9N3ZDZgTrM3WEi0a4YO9Whyphenhyphent23uVtzAqLynrUksD53emAvIPzBiti8v9roq/s1600/Egbert+23ix11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRolxjpDtyCRW8PkmfbhD2mUPXI5nxYPYSrFBQBRl_t6r_Q69B9XGya31Du9foioxya6NKq8t7JxAwXJGW9N3ZDZgTrM3WEi0a4YO9Whyphenhyphent23uVtzAqLynrUksD53emAvIPzBiti8v9roq/s200/Egbert+23ix11.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><div><br />Rab I. Rob. In dialect. Oh come on.</div><div><br /></div><div>Egbert tells me his eyes are blue-grey. I should have noticed by now. He points out a man called Beddoes. Then he tells me about eddoes, starchy vegetables that he says are very scratchy on the way down. He reminisces about his mother: 'She never hit me with her left. She only hit me with the right once and she knocked me out. Then she threw cold water over me.' </div><div><br /></div><div>By now Jacqueline has arrived. We're next to a record stall and we sing along with Dionne Warwick - <i>Walk On By </i>and <i>This Girl's in Love with You</i>. Egbert sits for us in a nonchalant, practised way. His rib cage is tiny, elegant. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpLnNqiBI5sa42Cq_PTKNB5H-xO1ktfnLpktugQdJdD-WgyG251RfjVX-rLPGNYuwTaAFy90s5Hc6hDSGsCLUPz-wDoFb5PjnUq58TXs93ZQMlm0JQCmIDbA7iHZ2CedYNKKBHV868YEo/s1600/Egbert+23ix11+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #33aaff; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpLnNqiBI5sa42Cq_PTKNB5H-xO1ktfnLpktugQdJdD-WgyG251RfjVX-rLPGNYuwTaAFy90s5Hc6hDSGsCLUPz-wDoFb5PjnUq58TXs93ZQMlm0JQCmIDbA7iHZ2CedYNKKBHV868YEo/s200/Egbert+23ix11+2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div><div>'Egbert draws himself,' says Jacqueline. Egbert has true grace.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h2 class="date-header" style="font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; padding: inherit;">Saturday, 22 September 2012</span></h2><div class="date-posts" style="font-size: 12px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><a name="2779794183825169584"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2012/09/rastafari.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Rastafari</a></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOBDvgpfffeldYvFYEoUB8wFhxbh3hKfCzWAd_IhG6uuJP0Ufol1VvPyDGN9tOKEDCDcPVtiSDt9ZglwILbtSexFakk0TOC6OIoAWian6Q7gF3UXHSpnXL2yh5OAgJXTbbxzRvD1AwRRV/s1600/Kili1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOBDvgpfffeldYvFYEoUB8wFhxbh3hKfCzWAd_IhG6uuJP0Ufol1VvPyDGN9tOKEDCDcPVtiSDt9ZglwILbtSexFakk0TOC6OIoAWian6Q7gF3UXHSpnXL2yh5OAgJXTbbxzRvD1AwRRV/s1600/Kili1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOBDvgpfffeldYvFYEoUB8wFhxbh3hKfCzWAd_IhG6uuJP0Ufol1VvPyDGN9tOKEDCDcPVtiSDt9ZglwILbtSexFakk0TOC6OIoAWian6Q7gF3UXHSpnXL2yh5OAgJXTbbxzRvD1AwRRV/s320/Kili1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="252" /></a><br />Overheard outside Tom's Delicatessen:<br />A: 'I have a yoga class now.'<br />B: 'Oh, do you go to the Life Centre?'<br />A: 'No, someone comes to my house.'<br /><br />B looks as if dashing her brains out against the nearby lamp-post will be the only cure for her humiliation.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0UJhsTSULjAXm4e6RQ15cn6GI3hCx5Q8xREOrGMrd7Ab9GOz5EvjIZtzCwue5aKN7ZLRP6ncQUafpaJVueKWUhM7EV6LvPt7-0P3pqTnc8ta6Rv5qt2huP0V4xWviFgowkwY4sCwH25H/s1600/Kili.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0UJhsTSULjAXm4e6RQ15cn6GI3hCx5Q8xREOrGMrd7Ab9GOz5EvjIZtzCwue5aKN7ZLRP6ncQUafpaJVueKWUhM7EV6LvPt7-0P3pqTnc8ta6Rv5qt2huP0V4xWviFgowkwY4sCwH25H/s320/Kili.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="272" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px; text-align: center;">Clifton aka Kili</td></tr></tbody></table>I'm in army fatigues searching among the street people for a man without a telephone. Egbert, the St Lucian Rasta, my most reliable and loquacious model. I find him holding court outside a cafe on Portobello Road, all cheekbones and diminutive elegance.<br /><br />Egbert kisses my hand fervently and calls me empress. I feel like one.<br /><br />'Wie geht es Ihnen?' says Egbert to Kili.<br />'Es geht mir gut.'<br />'Heil Hitler.'<br />'Sieg Heil.'<br />'Whatever.'<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; float: right; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgexbxER7Gz9ZqR4RyRnblpx5eJVtWpfLrfzwkRCJ6BN7Ssexn1tutokQtvxFXhqq0wLbvz66bWIIyJrXXSxIeoWVZizN887q0a5ZvdZ0olIuhOK2Az9_AT-r3otGfKgnXOU3VSQxJ1fWHn/s1600/Egbert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #33aaff; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgexbxER7Gz9ZqR4RyRnblpx5eJVtWpfLrfzwkRCJ6BN7Ssexn1tutokQtvxFXhqq0wLbvz66bWIIyJrXXSxIeoWVZizN887q0a5ZvdZ0olIuhOK2Az9_AT-r3otGfKgnXOU3VSQxJ1fWHn/s320/Egbert.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px; text-align: center;">Egbert</td></tr></tbody></table>Egbert gets up to go. He whispers in my ear: 'Her name is Doreen. She is short and chunky with bow legs. She is a wonderful cook. She's cooking me fish. One love.'</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2779794183825169584" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; 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Since 2017, Peter Sloper and I have been doing the covers for the students' annual reports on how they would change the law.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Graphic design: Peter Sloper</div><div style="text-align: left;">Illustration concepts: me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0VLZFcMW4_SzQwaY06EIWOKQsTV_29B39utepM-TIStWtllmjl-PT2BKvrMWDb2jRtTyJIFFHFpScu0N80w3YqsZT43byBQRDGn3NeopO04TU_vo_ihbALh7W0VDycCnOMLgp8mqWbRcLkNAZWVkosTkSICYXLPLc539eDAQDlvsjqCdO0G623wF/s3545/MLC22-cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3545" data-original-width="2540" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0VLZFcMW4_SzQwaY06EIWOKQsTV_29B39utepM-TIStWtllmjl-PT2BKvrMWDb2jRtTyJIFFHFpScu0N80w3YqsZT43byBQRDGn3NeopO04TU_vo_ihbALh7W0VDycCnOMLgp8mqWbRcLkNAZWVkosTkSICYXLPLc539eDAQDlvsjqCdO0G623wF/w261-h365/MLC22-cropped.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHfQYXphPTbpCsDjrUizdlX__7-F_srzchs7k-oWDsQGlsKUJJnSXyl3vXBDAXCc30R5pRfBdYpteoJMlBT8578Hr9xvNnsqG8Im-LQlt0QdJop53-3DfgaAMDEuvCMUmpUZkl9vo78mRoEoNnJPop5hfBRbgKOnNUqCDpgb-mEfzjfJ-L19aZgefJ=s3558" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3558" data-original-width="2558" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHfQYXphPTbpCsDjrUizdlX__7-F_srzchs7k-oWDsQGlsKUJJnSXyl3vXBDAXCc30R5pRfBdYpteoJMlBT8578Hr9xvNnsqG8Im-LQlt0QdJop53-3DfgaAMDEuvCMUmpUZkl9vo78mRoEoNnJPop5hfBRbgKOnNUqCDpgb-mEfzjfJ-L19aZgefJ=s320" width="230" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the background I used the painting overalls of Ben Wilson, the <a href="https://benwilsonchewinggumman.com/">Chewing Gum Man</a> - I write about being out on the pavement with him <a href="http://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-right-trousers.html">here</a>.</div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-57332183066186065452021-05-04T14:57:00.001+01:002021-05-04T14:57:11.222+01:00Life class and a Gerry Adams court case: sketchbook muddle<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FfB1k2NDxJYPGbFrCKgi5uUYF7P0ec9OPWe2N6C-2cP1johQdUQxZ7ITXQuenPU7GTSL1nol7KedhZ36W2JkX9Vm5eMvKajigKOon86o_WxEk7CYjLyuIQjTVZri53sbaqpDg2AWWKA/s2048/Sketchbook+18+A3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1483" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FfB1k2NDxJYPGbFrCKgi5uUYF7P0ec9OPWe2N6C-2cP1johQdUQxZ7ITXQuenPU7GTSL1nol7KedhZ36W2JkX9Vm5eMvKajigKOon86o_WxEk7CYjLyuIQjTVZri53sbaqpDg2AWWKA/s320/Sketchbook+18+A3.jpg" width="320" /></a>Don't take anything for granted. Things I sort of took for granted were the weekly life class, the Good Friday Agreement and live drawing (with permission) in the UK Supreme Court. Two are currently impossible because of Covid-19 and one is under threat because of human idiocy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUiFRkQq_FD1yS3rRKilEOPQz4993qyqB6QJkK2XzWhXS6RtouYnGQ1fa3lHePzIQd7piiuWRXRmOvayUdTr0NXr5QVS5IiBx2j8m4ab8D3Z-N_2OZpxoiq5MZs_bSciDOzQlBClVnDlw/s2048/Sketchbook+11+A3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUiFRkQq_FD1yS3rRKilEOPQz4993qyqB6QJkK2XzWhXS6RtouYnGQ1fa3lHePzIQd7piiuWRXRmOvayUdTr0NXr5QVS5IiBx2j8m4ab8D3Z-N_2OZpxoiq5MZs_bSciDOzQlBClVnDlw/s320/Sketchbook+11+A3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This muddled-up sketchbook has become an accidental record of two, with overtones of the GFA, in that a court case in central London involving Gerry Adams (although absent) did not require massive security.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">It shows life drawings from a couple of weeks' sessions, and sketches <i>R v Adams</i> (Northern Ireland) which was heard on 19 November 2019. In May 2020, the Supreme Court quashed Gerry Adams's convictions for escaping from the Maze prison in the 1970s.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SfryI-yaCX55iRAUIJnaO1-J1MiXtMZb5PpvRcwHV9fu8i85pzBGwFbf0PoWFoSl1lXCJsKnzdk3h8sWmper3zIE6zMvwWsGhG2ebRKUXjOLQ7WjHx6FW-uwCtIPJ_A7xBC801aipXg/s2048/Sketchbook+12+A3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1476" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SfryI-yaCX55iRAUIJnaO1-J1MiXtMZb5PpvRcwHV9fu8i85pzBGwFbf0PoWFoSl1lXCJsKnzdk3h8sWmper3zIE6zMvwWsGhG2ebRKUXjOLQ7WjHx6FW-uwCtIPJ_A7xBC801aipXg/s320/Sketchbook+12+A3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjjBu8Z8ZTJhAG8qKyeCRzBbIUnaXhSz7KEzk3GKiR2qDjkdKmTMnEdsxegMaQDdIfWNbGXHbiJhw_aYHeCSRoK6Jt0ZuV8pWlYQ2T7-mGyEKqB9k9XviN1aC8j2-TB0NPu9Pv1zj4tk/s2048/Sketchbook+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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But that’s missing the point.</p><div class="MsoNormal">I’m at a performance of Japanese rope bondage (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shibari</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kinbaku)</i>, the block-and-tackle pinnacle of BDSM in which a DIY-minded master suspends a submissive from a beam or ceiling hooks. I’m also sketching, in the hope that the hectic spectacle will loosen my line as the riggers tighten theirs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’ve been asked if the performers have sex as part of the show. Oh, spare us. They’re here for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knots</i>. Such as the Somerville Bowline, derived from a knot called ABOK 1445, aka the Myrtle Hitch. It’s named after a place in Massachusetts, not my old Oxford college. I’m wondering if this is the opposite of sex.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53cpc51w7rx0eBQ0k-KKfAuqQQgpVmZki_ZdtxTiplJ_UsY_oHo1Li9io4tQWLOwYFO4ytFpMxlJpqKpJwXqYEXZ65Y8vD0DlN-_SeZyz0SoB0LfBnSdojB6L0k9NkK1T-vkqsqe4uU1S/s1600/G6+copy.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1081" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj53cpc51w7rx0eBQ0k-KKfAuqQQgpVmZki_ZdtxTiplJ_UsY_oHo1Li9io4tQWLOwYFO4ytFpMxlJpqKpJwXqYEXZ65Y8vD0DlN-_SeZyz0SoB0LfBnSdojB6L0k9NkK1T-vkqsqe4uU1S/s320/G6+copy.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgone</td></tr></tbody></table>The rope is less than 1cm thick. Silk for La Perla moments. Hemp rope is pale and soft - think of macramé hammocks for hanging baskets. If oiled, it’s tacky, smells farmyardy and leaves a grease mark on fabric. Coloured rope is for mood-signalling or matching the curtains. Harsh jute rope doubles as sash-cords. A rigger shows me his hands red-raw from smoothing out the kinks in new rope: this reminds me of the Victorian prison punishment of picking oakum.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">During the set-up you hear the click of carabiners. A lot of climbers are drawn to this caper. Dr Phil, a burly French top, is an electrical engineer: he tells me it’s all about working with cabling.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK57EdynOB3dfOtHqG2TAhbJoP_OmZ4KtjpRYzfPpzDfQC4CnGL2966gcJdNha7LKQHhNYxo8oCyo9iFq2I7rw0iP7pGLABAMX08wkVkSWYDbpeUAkK_K9pSkBfC_PmtUgg7wDE7UJ2u-8/s1600/GORGONE+Jan+13+6+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK57EdynOB3dfOtHqG2TAhbJoP_OmZ4KtjpRYzfPpzDfQC4CnGL2966gcJdNha7LKQHhNYxo8oCyo9iFq2I7rw0iP7pGLABAMX08wkVkSWYDbpeUAkK_K9pSkBfC_PmtUgg7wDE7UJ2u-8/s320/GORGONE+Jan+13+6+blog.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgone and Esinem</td></tr></tbody></table>The top re-fashions the puppet this way and that. The pace is fast. But despite the apparent helplessness of the bound captive, who’s really in charge? Ask Gorgone, a French pioneer of both tying and being tied. It’s a paradox, she says. As a top, the experience is about humility. As a bottom, it’s about power.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">And it goes beyond flesh or seediness. She says her bondage work <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is ‘born from the desire to break free from the sexual and S&M connotation that it carries. My mission is to convey the unique experience and aesthetic of the body in ropes to a broader and more mainstream audience.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Gorgone performs and teaches around the world. No western woman has won more esteem from the Japanese keeper of the flame Akira Naka. ‘When he ties me,’ says Gorgone, ‘I feel like a river under the rain. Powerful, fluid and peaceful but very melancholic.’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-WjhfVZ-4KWFKl73KZd6FxQab16lPLLbvqTASHwfc3lh21W_Di0J-pw1UVl-QdsQ01TOuoHUtpoCODrsFoVJ-RBEjBrNCg1VOtaQ0InfAf8FEbAc8TXxyUpLwhjJFLQ7FieuXUXrEezx/s1600/G7+copy+crop+PB.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-WjhfVZ-4KWFKl73KZd6FxQab16lPLLbvqTASHwfc3lh21W_Di0J-pw1UVl-QdsQ01TOuoHUtpoCODrsFoVJ-RBEjBrNCg1VOtaQ0InfAf8FEbAc8TXxyUpLwhjJFLQ7FieuXUXrEezx/s320/G7+copy+crop+PB.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgone</td></tr></tbody></table>Gorgone is a no-carb vegan vaper without any apparent room to store her internal organs. She can shape her spine like a U-bend. Naked, she is invulnerable, and turns up the voltage for an audience.<s></s></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />‘Ropes are my oxygen,’ says Gorgone. She feels like the golem, the formless creature of clay moulded when the Hebrew word <i>emet </i>(truth) is written on her forehead. The rigger creates the model. Rope shapes the shapeless. 'I was nothing and your eyes saw me,' she says. <br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBApiDHcAA-SwNZ2XrTAnMWk-oFsRjLyuUMPAAPUHzoftMLFR1uOWofhkA3iga7oJh9sRFRfbWmnJREwV3IJ77QVf0u6MDpV2IHiYHdFkPubb3plZQnoR3GRelliQmTbENfWABrXpjpIIv/s1600/GORGONE+May+13+1+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1190" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBApiDHcAA-SwNZ2XrTAnMWk-oFsRjLyuUMPAAPUHzoftMLFR1uOWofhkA3iga7oJh9sRFRfbWmnJREwV3IJ77QVf0u6MDpV2IHiYHdFkPubb3plZQnoR3GRelliQmTbENfWABrXpjpIIv/s320/GORGONE+May+13+1+blog.jpg" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgone</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><i>Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. –</i> Psalm 139, verse 16</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And how do you cope with the pain of being hoicked up in rope? </span>‘Eroticise it,’ says Gorgone, with a headmistressy stare through her vapour veil.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CTJXoSRExAyISwdHDxq-70UXVWJvlpy9__dQKHJ0JZFMlrcyhbgJ7z7xE2YHqsaOQQlIyC_4wfWZxnvNnLGHrGPutQkH39_S4h8tyzuo4bP6hXESwRPXebJClJB0pzG0nLI6deREGepR/s1600/2+Amorist+Jul+16+1+low+res.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CTJXoSRExAyISwdHDxq-70UXVWJvlpy9__dQKHJ0JZFMlrcyhbgJ7z7xE2YHqsaOQQlIyC_4wfWZxnvNnLGHrGPutQkH39_S4h8tyzuo4bP6hXESwRPXebJClJB0pzG0nLI6deREGepR/s320/2+Amorist+Jul+16+1+low+res.jpg" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Kitty Rea</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That leads to the inevitable question – what is erotic?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">‘Eroticism is irrational; explicable but irrational.’ That’s Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, quoted in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Financial Times</i>, in an aside about eroticism and power.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK21YXmlcaukEdWoj4ERAF2U5VwZzzYFp3rJ6mZDmXDRu_ZkHktcf1SXJJ8uZ3NkMiie7LscYx4ESrOPfWIW4ykVnMEwC4470jO2XChhVNYac2_vQmeFWwxQzyO5dXO8Qse4-BGI5HJCGP/s1600/25+Sep+16+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="973" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK21YXmlcaukEdWoj4ERAF2U5VwZzzYFp3rJ6mZDmXDRu_ZkHktcf1SXJJ8uZ3NkMiie7LscYx4ESrOPfWIW4ykVnMEwC4470jO2XChhVNYac2_vQmeFWwxQzyO5dXO8Qse4-BGI5HJCGP/s320/25+Sep+16+blog.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dry Sin and Billie Rose</td></tr></tbody></table>It’s easier to say what is not erotic. Nudists. Nudity. The Naked Rambler. Life class. Valentine’s day. Synthetic fibres. A body harbouring silicone. Anything contrived.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">To generate an erotic charge in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shibari</i>, stay covered up. I give extra points for spectacles although they fall off. I revere kimonos, in which the site of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span>rotisme</i> is the exposed nape; acres of fabric cascade from the suspended body. Inside or outside the bondage arena, you can’t go wrong with a twinset, pearls and well-fitting gloves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOirSmAXat9XIFZ-UO4gh_-qXOxOdUqzVpElLCm1A-P4xBRId1WLicWR_cIVhOPIFHCHPin5qjnmQmVhSUtFttglS6Yd3p1FRdF1422Jp99L2lSVyH6Jwn6_VLTI7efJJAp47gapvendrr/s1600/An+Feb+17+12.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1600" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOirSmAXat9XIFZ-UO4gh_-qXOxOdUqzVpElLCm1A-P4xBRId1WLicWR_cIVhOPIFHCHPin5qjnmQmVhSUtFttglS6Yd3p1FRdF1422Jp99L2lSVyH6Jwn6_VLTI7efJJAp47gapvendrr/s320/An+Feb+17+12.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Participant in class at Anatomie Studio</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shibari</i> cliché remains bloke-ties-fit-bird but there is an increasing amount of woman-ties-woman. I like older-man-ties-older-woman for the mellow emotional currents, like the switching moods in the ember days of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpcaD5uQazHWyZou-2API9WTZptEl3LK0GesIM2_2X4xlr3gewiuutQSjNlVSMO_8Kbor0mD2sn8z9EHUCs88IH9bJRJz5CnQhpdSREkQ0MHT8ucyCd1-Ms2futbY1h5RNzAkpuHDyTloP/s1600/AYUMI+Aug+14+9+blog.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1099" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpcaD5uQazHWyZou-2API9WTZptEl3LK0GesIM2_2X4xlr3gewiuutQSjNlVSMO_8Kbor0mD2sn8z9EHUCs88IH9bJRJz5CnQhpdSREkQ0MHT8ucyCd1-Ms2futbY1h5RNzAkpuHDyTloP/s320/AYUMI+Aug+14+9+blog.jpg" width="219" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayumi LaNoire</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgRWL26d4SkJwYJl-pqPbewlvqKu0ERCz1XQ-O8iFkfqvh8P8UwzZYKDKGZmWG9uo4-3PXx1R9j7tlmJUrOyNVG0QjZ_M1LAN37KT43rbm2DpuAYuJui93FKMrsnL0PXlAc7TSe_JEtbO/s1600/2+Amorist+Jul+16+8+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1122" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgRWL26d4SkJwYJl-pqPbewlvqKu0ERCz1XQ-O8iFkfqvh8P8UwzZYKDKGZmWG9uo4-3PXx1R9j7tlmJUrOyNVG0QjZ_M1LAN37KT43rbm2DpuAYuJui93FKMrsnL0PXlAc7TSe_JEtbO/s320/2+Amorist+Jul+16+8+blog.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Koi Ku Nawa and Isabell<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Then there are solo diversions – people self-tying in rope, or realising variations on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man in a metal hoop. Ayumi LaNoire, whose portfolio includes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shibari </i>and fire-eating, is a star performer on a golden pole – as geisha, Hello Kitty schoolgirl, tragic blindfolded vamp. She can support herself horizontally on the pole. After her performance, the brawny guys have a go. They can’t do it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYIajv9hZ1eF1uK6NrrA66twoXWDgPG00JWC5TY1h0C8AP4Owu3Dd5esPzWoahYHOn5ny-RzDJQYZRP_villT3YjNCPRnNlfccSwjaofZdRGPwR_tsZ1p0Mz5PxGcQwu8JIW0QHyoW-XS/s1600/bound+sep+16+23+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1019" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrYIajv9hZ1eF1uK6NrrA66twoXWDgPG00JWC5TY1h0C8AP4Owu3Dd5esPzWoahYHOn5ny-RzDJQYZRP_villT3YjNCPRnNlfccSwjaofZdRGPwR_tsZ1p0Mz5PxGcQwu8JIW0QHyoW-XS/s320/bound+sep+16+23+blog.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nina Russ tying Missy Fatale</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />At the beginning of tonight’s show, Nina Russ, an empress of rope, calls me over. Eyes bright, she starts to tell me about her day: 'I felt a wave of pleasure all over my body. And adrenaline.'</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2eRvlV1Tl4lCBzN6zkFfj4vr_yDreWQGoSZBDf_PF7wondE5eKdji9Dj5X9gYEjBBU0_DmuYFBlFZWgHqaLzhMSsOvRBrEaCZnmHXt2BZ4mxDeo7iVynjdO5MS-NGMu4ow-0lpv_lKb5/s1600/AYUMI++Aug+14+10+blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1153" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2eRvlV1Tl4lCBzN6zkFfj4vr_yDreWQGoSZBDf_PF7wondE5eKdji9Dj5X9gYEjBBU0_DmuYFBlFZWgHqaLzhMSsOvRBrEaCZnmHXt2BZ4mxDeo7iVynjdO5MS-NGMu4ow-0lpv_lKb5/s320/AYUMI++Aug+14+10+blog.jpg" width="230" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Ayumi LaNoire</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Steady on, girl. But she’s talking about gardening as usual. ‘Rope bondage is like growing vegetables,’ she says. ‘When you start to tie someone, you don't know what you'll end up with.’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">‘Suspended in rope,’ writes Gorgone, ‘my body forgets the ground. It falls, but doesn’t fear any impact. In this space between high and low, gravity turns into benediction; the fall is veiled in immortality.’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">And that’s eroticism. Anything veiled.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><i></i></span></span></span>Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-88691411306937549542020-07-03T12:53:00.002+01:002021-12-11T14:00:49.368+00:00A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Wisden</i> will be rather thin next year, so if you like chunky
facts and statistics why not console yourself with <i>A Court of Specialists: Judicial
Behavior on the UK Supreme Court</i>, a volume to make the spotters’ eyes
sparkle. (The American spelling reflects the key market of
the publisher, OUP.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The author, Chris Hanretty, is Professor of Politics at
Royal Holloway, University of London. Although he is a political scientist, his
aim is not to probe the Justices’ personal politics: ‘There has been no
suggestion that politics matters for appointments to the Supreme Court. Indeed,
it is difficult even to form an impression of what nominees’ politics might be.’
(What Justices may do in retirement is another matter.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This book covers the period from the Court’s beginning in
October 2009 to September 2017, so it misses out the turbulent prorogation
spectacular of 2019, <i>R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister</i> and <i>Cherry
and others v Advocate General for Scotland</i>, which did much to raise the
Court’s profile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Hanretty’s thesis is that specialisation dominates every
aspect of the Court’s work, from who gets heard to who dissents. He calculates, for example, that Lord Neuberger weighed in at
74% tax/chancery</span> before reaching the Supreme Court, <span style="font-family: inherit;">while Lord Sumption, appointed from the bar with no
bench form, ‘has been imputed values equal to the mean for English and Welsh
judges.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The argument of this book,’ he writes, ‘is that…the Supreme
Court is a court of specialists, and that its work should be interpreted in
that light…Although the court may sit in panels of five, seven, or nine, the
bulk of its work…is carried out by…individuals who have given over a
substantial part of their career to tax law, family law, criminal law, or
public law. This specialization means that the effective size of each panel is
much smaller. This in turn reduces the scope for disagreement, and makes it
much easier to sustain higher levels of unanimity.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book is for anyone engaged in
Supreme Court haruspication. Although Professor Hanretty points to the turf
guide which suggests that the Government and parties using the most costly
counsel tend to have a good chance of success, there are no easy answers and you
are cautioned to cast your net widely: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Betting markets [in this case Betfair]…proved accurate in
the [first] Miller case. Two weeks before the court handed down its judgment, a
£1 bet on the eventual winner would have given a return of just £1.23, compared
to a return of £4.70 in the event of the government winning…The betting markets
thus made a confident and correct prediction about the outcome of a Supreme
Court case.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That case (<i>R (on the application of Miller and another) v
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union</i>) is one of two appeals spotlit
in the introduction. The other is <i>R (on the application of Newhaven Port and
Properties Limited) v East Sussex County Council and another</i>, a lyrically English
village green case with added maritime romance. As Lord Carnwath points out,
perhaps misty-eyed, the appellants relied on <i>Hall on the Seashore</i>, <i>Phear’s
Rights of Water</i>, and <i>Stuart Moore on the Foreshore</i>. A 1904 decision
of Vaughan Williams LJ is cited: he was the uncle of Ralph Vaughan Williams and
you can hear the swelling strings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The poet George Crabbe keeps trying to break out in the scene-setting
at the beginning of the judgment (Lord Neuberger and Lord Hodge). Their conclusion is elegiac: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The poet Ovid spoke of time as “the devourer of things”
(“tempus edax rerum”. Metamorphoses 15.234).’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ll bring in the translator Arthur Golding:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Thou tyme, the eater up of things, and age of spyghtfull
teene </i>[vexation]<i>,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Destroy all things. And when that long continuance hath
them bit,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">You leisurely by lingering death consume them every whit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no poetic soul in <i>Miller 1</i>, enacted before a
sour and riven nation, with angry tides lapping at judges left
undefended by a feckless Lord Chancellor. The only balm was to see the Supreme Court,
at a time of unprecedented pressure, being hospitable and accessible (‘The communications
could not have been better,’ wrote David Allen Green for the <i>Financial Times</i>),
and to witness competent, articulate people at work, contrasting with the
strident reverse-talent contest across the square.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hesitate to judge this book by its cover because it uses
one of my drawings of <i>R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice</i>, the
assisted suicide appeal. On his feet is Paul Bowen QC,
representing the late Tony Nicklinson and Paul Lamb. He was leading Guy Vassall-Adams,
seated to his right, who became a QC in 2016. I blogged about it <a href="https://isobelwilliams.blogspot.com/2013/12/uneaseful-death.html">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Nicklinson</i> was one of the rare hyper-important cases
with a panel of nine Justices instead of the normal five – not surpassed until
both <i>Miller</i> appeals with panels of 11. Professor Hanretty uses <i>Nicklinson
</i>to show that the UKSC may find ‘in favor of the government, but at the same
time puts the government at notice that it might not be so lucky next time… The
court was asked whether UK policy in relation to assisted suicide was
compatible with the Convention right to respect for private life (Art. 8)…Three
judges (Neuberger, Mance, and Wilson) said that it would be appropriate for the
court to say whether or not the policy was compatible, but that there was
insufficient evidence for them to do so in the present case…Decisions…like this
suggest that judges are eminently capable of reaching decisions that are
political in this sense.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The book concludes: ‘There has been almost no study of
public opinion regarding the court, of media coverage of the court and its
rulings, or (save in very specific cases) the reaction to the court in the
political sphere. An investigation of this kind seems necessary if we are to know
whether the court’s expertise brings with it the trust of the people.<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="p282"></a>’ <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The feverish public response to <i>Cherry/Miller 2</i> moved
things on a bit. And we might well ask, post no-deal Brexit, who will protect
the judiciary from the suspicion of a squalid government? Where would the
people rather place their trust? This book takes the Human Rights Act 1998 as a
given.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK
Supreme Court </i>by Chris Hanretty, OUP, £64, also an ebook</b></span></div>
Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-48735467759067160812020-06-26T15:06:00.000+01:002020-06-26T15:06:04.693+01:00Judging by appearances<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGtQ1rlnpV2DfPg9RoVDIk0ox16ndEImK4jDCKWT6svqF70wAh8B2VHD-w0Xq5WFyQwLNG15UC0mTkjbXBqD4cHyBBX4u4raPr8HdJ4f2sKcct68GseZNo3ErsvGkfXJNwuEV75cC5LI/s1600/pope-ii-francis-bacon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="557" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGtQ1rlnpV2DfPg9RoVDIk0ox16ndEImK4jDCKWT6svqF70wAh8B2VHD-w0Xq5WFyQwLNG15UC0mTkjbXBqD4cHyBBX4u4raPr8HdJ4f2sKcct68GseZNo3ErsvGkfXJNwuEV75cC5LI/s400/pope-ii-francis-bacon.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pope II</i>, Francis Bacon, 1951, Kunsthalle Mannheim</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Online hearings, eh. Screenshotting and drawing from the
screen are illegal. I don’t see the point of drawing from memory when you
can google the postage-stamp faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Robed or not, the judges trapped in their doll’s house squares
on Skype for Business evoke Francis Bacon’s screaming popes. The stifled
command, the confinement, the frustration with the bundles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Above the Master of the Rolls, the grid lines of polystyrene ceiling tiles recede to infinity. They echo the popes’ geometric cages of paint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Master of the Rolls’s camera is not static so we view his surroundings from different angles. A green glass banker’s
table lamp, a Victorian tiled fireplace, photos on the mantelpiece, highlighter
pens, teal and dark red curtains in a design I would call ‘John Lewis
first nation’. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He sips water from cut crystal while presiding in a panel of
three judges which I represent thus:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Sir Osbert Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt;
Edith Sitwell </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">by Cecil Beaton,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">
vintage bromide print, 1927, National Portrait Gallery, London</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At a time when we are encouraged or mandated to wear masks,
the case concerns automated facial recognition (AFR). Counsel muses
where AFR stands in relation to other areas of identification such as fingerprinting, DNA or CCTV. He asserts that CCTV
is a greater intrusion than AFR in that it identifies ‘what a person is wearing
or doing’, makes a ‘moving record of a<span style="font-family: inherit;"> person’s actions…happy or sad, peaceful,
drunk or aggressive’; ‘identifies who a person is with and [apparently] talking
to’. AFR is a tool that ‘simply narrows the pool of individuals that an officer
would be looking at.’</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Bridges disagrees. Liberty, supporting him in </span><i>R (Bridges) v CC South Wales & others</i>, comments: 'In the world’s first legal challenge to police use of this tech, Ed is arguing the force is breaching rights to privacy, data protection laws, and equality laws.' One argument is that AFR</span> can produce false
positives/negatives, like Covid-19 tests.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jason Beer QC wears antlers made of a l</span>ight fitting. No one
is robed, but if this were a real court should masks be
added? Yes, says barrister and singer Ben Seifert, campaigning on the basis
that courtrooms are enclosed talking shops with poor air flow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a faithful representation of the hearing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Francis Bacon’s </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Study for a Head </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">under the hammer
at Sotheby’s New York, 2019</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A – pumped-up legal commentator holding gavel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B – observer in jacket by Cath Kidston (subsequently in
receivership owing to Covid-19 but now trading online)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist Jacqueline Nicholls in her own mask</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next day brings an application hearing for </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd & another</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">
before Mr Justice Nicol. The start is delayed while Skype for Business is
temperamental. The name of Johnny Depp appears among the blanked-out observers. Numbers diminish as time goes on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The clerk, looking cool and elegant, announces: ‘Judge has
said if you want to remove jackets that’s fine.’ Counsel X waits for the judge
to say it himself, then takes off his jacket, revealing too much information (sweat). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Counsel Y, more crumpled and tousled (but in a
showbizzy way) than counsel X, sagely keeps his jacket on; he also has the best
lighting. He </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">laments 'a strong sense of ambush' having received 58 documents from the other side yesterday. He presents a controlled
amount of head-shaking exasperation without lapsing into querulousness. When
he is not speaking we see the cornice and the top
of his head – he could be eating a fry-up or talking to Johnny Depp out of
sight of lip-readers, who knows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We see the jacketless judge only in close-up, in Caravaggesque
chiaroscuro. He appears to be wearing a blue and white Bengal stripe shirt from
T. M. Lewin, one of which I am cannibalising for masks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I recoil from the unedifying Punch and Judy content of this application,
on a tiresomely hot day when disease, political mismanagement and climate
disaster stalk the land. There is talk of vodka, domestic violence, a post-nup.
The judge slows right down when taking notes about the drugs (‘MDA?’ he
enquires), not on familiar working territory it would seem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While l am watching, tech problems are confined to muffled
underwater sound from one, and the capriciousness of the Skype connection. The participants display Covid-friendly face and
hair touching, nose and ear scratching and one imaginary beard stroking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-65549888317861744972020-06-13T15:04:00.001+01:002020-06-15T11:47:02.013+01:00Caged for Justice<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-R_yb2u94STsz5GdlPKpaUN8Kqtth33iSZgjCkB1xWBMo3cRLVYJRcYUbyZJGWcV9JSIaOXpKhQD4XnRMvkmyWaO2lr76IcKHsHHAe2AotNfdhrDbe-iueQtKLBuD7psgr_iNmFEcMk/s1600/Justice+13+June+2+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP-R_yb2u94STsz5GdlPKpaUN8Kqtth33iSZgjCkB1xWBMo3cRLVYJRcYUbyZJGWcV9JSIaOXpKhQD4XnRMvkmyWaO2lr76IcKHsHHAe2AotNfdhrDbe-iueQtKLBuD7psgr_iNmFEcMk/s400/Justice+13+June+2+2.jpg" width="400" /></a>In my <i>Hancock's-Half-Hour</i>-directed-by-Kurosawa lockdown life, I injure my nostril doing a home Covid test. Not much blood. Have I left the swab stuck up there? Panic.<br />
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Meanwhile the population is dividing into shelterers and shoulder-bargers.<br />
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For distraction I turn to the fourth mock virtual jury trial run by Justice, the law reform and human rights organisation. It starts half an hour late because there are three rival jury lists. The judge assures us that no hearing in his experience has ever started on time: 'There is always something, so don't rush away saying the technology is no good.'<br />
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Last time the judge's backcloth was an Osborne-and-Little-style repeat pattern of the royal coat of arms, but it has been swapped for a more dignified version. Prosecuting counsel has taped white paper over his enthralling scarlet paint but is terrifyingly backlit to begin with.<br />
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<b>Sound</b><br />
For John Cage fans there is silence and found noise. Muting is a constant problem and the judge explores elegant ways to ask jurors, counsel and clerk to watch this, e.g. 'You would be held more effective as an advocate unmuted.' Mike, the Unseen Voice of Tech, may have a hand in some of the muting. The judge is accidentally muted to the public for the summing up. Once he finds out, he gamely tries to fill us in. When he is troubled by reverb, we can hear it too.<br />
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Miscellaneous door closing, paper shuffling, drink slurping, traffic. Transmission freezes at about 13:34, but not for long. During the break, we get the judge speaking over a clicktrack of his own voice, and bursts of indecipherable chatter from a group clearly not social distancing (the jury?). Mike's mic check. </div>
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<b>The jury</b><br />
Gathered in one place for the first time in this series, the jury are in what looks like a white-walled closed cafeteria. In their on-screen lab-rat cages, it is impossible to tell if they are social-distancing. Gratifyingly, the one called Michael Collins has an Irish accent. While the judge is assuring them that their safety is paramount and masks are provided for all, one juror is wearing a mask. By the end, three are masked.<br />
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They have been selected from people who are not shelterers. They are prepared to travel to the designated place, to be enclosed with others and to use public lavatories without fear of hazard. They may have to use public transport. When I attended a long-running trial at the Old Bailey, half the jury - who were selected because they were able to spend months out of the workforce - were obese. Where am I going with this? Nowhere. I am staying home.<br />
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Questions: how important is it to be in the physical presence of a witness? Are the pheromones and stress chemicals which you unconsciously detect a help or a hindrance? Even if a witness is easier to see on screen than across the courtroom, does the camera objectively reveal demeanour? And can you rule out online distractions? (Ooh look, bookshelves - let me judge you.)<br />
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The jury splits 7:5; we are not told which way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the estimable TV series <i>Crown Court</i></td></tr>
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<b>We the people</b><br />
While the jury deliberate, the judge discusses with prosecuting counsel how, in the absence of a Tannoy, the public can be informed when the jury is returning. He speculates that the public are getting on with 'your novel, your crossword or your knitting'. His concern for the public is not mirrored in real life: the public gallery has effectively been junked for the duration, despite pious assertions to the contrary.<br />
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Now here's a worry. Writing about this project on his blog <i>Counsel of Perfection</i>, barrister Maximilian Hardy says that a virtual public gallery 'needs to function in such a way that the trial is not being recorded on mobile phones. The solution to this is to have supervised remote locations at which trial observers are able to log into a particular trial having surrendered any recording devices with the parties alerted to their presence.' That excludes shelterers.<br />
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He doesn't mention the need to stop people drawing from the live screen, which is illegal, even in your home. Courtrooms (below the Supreme Court) have to be drawn from memory. Look, I don't make the rules.<br />
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<i>This
is the fictional case of </i>R v George Drew<i>, indicted for s20
Offences Against the Person Act unlawful wounding. HH Alistair McCreath (who devised the case) is presiding
at the virtual Crown Court, which he places in Erewhon, but let's not go off on a Samuel Butler tangent about the potential criminalisation of shelterers.</i><br />
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Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-41034412950531865822020-05-18T10:50:00.000+01:002020-05-18T12:33:57.881+01:00The adventure of the empty public gallery<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vyX7UcMBwQP4nw8mfb2YNleUEzU3twzQQNIledXZebJSi2wY8ZPuc4QbF3BuO9RgD8ZVl555FjJ8VipJtkWoi7s15Cn7juA0QGTGNlntPU35p_UhtlfoWCpdN5BmB3qC2w3l5lT2Iyg/s1600/Redacted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vyX7UcMBwQP4nw8mfb2YNleUEzU3twzQQNIledXZebJSi2wY8ZPuc4QbF3BuO9RgD8ZVl555FjJ8VipJtkWoi7s15Cn7juA0QGTGNlntPU35p_UhtlfoWCpdN5BmB3qC2w3l5lT2Iyg/s400/Redacted.jpg" width="400" /></a>What can the public see in today's hastily improvised, virus-adapted virtual courts? <br />
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Not much. The public gallery has for the most part been removed.<br />
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Today's lucky dip is in the Court of Appeal. Selected cases have been streamed from here since November 2018. The service has been suspended for the duration, but one exception is <i>Hoareau & another v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</i>. This concerns citizens of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean seeking to return to the islands following eviction by the UK to enable the US to build its Diego Garcia naval facility.<br />
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You are not allowed to reproduce court footage. Here is what remains after I've taken out the incriminating bits, plus some more to be on the safe side. Yes, I know we don't want people adding a dub reggae
soundtrack, or editing a judge's words to make it
sound as if he said X instead of Y. I get that. So I guess we're lumbered for now.<br />
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To test the water for virtual jury trials in a self-distancing age, the campaigning body <a href="https://justice.org.uk/our-work/justice-covid-19-response/">Justice</a> has been conducting mock hearings. It declared that
the one on 6 May would have 'particular emphasis on how to
recreate the solemnity of the court, and the rituals that contribute
toward it.' But, even if you leave aside the overalls-and-spanner aura of the event itself, that whole idea is blown out of the water once you plonk a hearing down in
the foetid bone-strewn cave that is YouTube. Your recommendations down the side will be a model of good taste but I've redacted some of
mine.
I am the thirteenth viewer present. Each participant (wigless and gownless) is separately boxed. A muted solicitor lurks in a blacked-out rectangle. The dolls' house look evokes <i>Play School</i> for anyone old enough. The sound is tinny and distorted; some words are lost.<br />
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In one rectangle the Master of the Rolls sits on a chair placed asymmetrically beneath the royal coat of arms.
The rectangle to his right is a blurry, glaring, flashing representation of migraine, not safe for anyone with epilepsy. Compiled by some offstage Drosselmeyer (possibly a hard-pressed individual taking terrible risks to be at work) it contains a patchwork of four scenes, stitched together on one master screen. What we are seeing is a close-up film of this screen. The second-hand nature of the image accounts for the Vaseline-on-the-lens look.<br />
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I can see that people are trying very hard in ghastly circumstances and I am sure that things will improve.<br />
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Lord Justice Green has a half-timbered ceiling. We hear the reassuring tones of Sir James Eadie QC, appearing for the Secretary of State. His backlit features are hard to discern. He has obviously taken television training to heart and is keeping his head still. Unnaturally still. In fact... I think of Sherlock Holmes in <i>The Adventure of the Empty House</i>. To foil a would-be assassin, the great detective commissions a wax bust of himself so that he can appear silhouetted in his Baker Street window. The bust is occasionally moved by the faithful Mrs Hudson, keeping out of view. Could Sir James...? But no, his image has just frozen for the duration, like so much else of life.
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The virus has inevitably restricted court access for the public, and those people who can't get online simply don't exist. My one attempt so far to join the public in observing a hearing shared on meetings software was met by an unexplained refusal. It was however illustrated in sepia tones <i>from memory</i>, to comply with the law,<i> </i>by a court artist and I'm not allowed to show you that image either, because of copyright.<br />
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Those who are trying to widen access for all kinds of observers include <a href="http://www.transformjustice.org.uk/">Transform Justice</a> and <a href="http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/">The Transparency Project</a>Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-49505897119127059692020-05-07T11:41:00.000+01:002020-05-18T12:39:02.262+01:00Jammin' for Justice<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkleMCZVhAS65OzSJDlS3wn1hjgd1ywek_NjcRYeYSQQTUcj349F0JESKMgMrYJ_Uil8oCoHuCkUxJ15_jUOgexFBgnu39fI3SCvvYinrrxllzicDb87KSArlDSEmcY4HYFqzIgvuE2-k/s1600/Crown+Court+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1600" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkleMCZVhAS65OzSJDlS3wn1hjgd1ywek_NjcRYeYSQQTUcj349F0JESKMgMrYJ_Uil8oCoHuCkUxJ15_jUOgexFBgnu39fI3SCvvYinrrxllzicDb87KSArlDSEmcY4HYFqzIgvuE2-k/s400/Crown+Court+4.jpg" width="400" /></a><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">We're
jammin', we're jammin'<br />
And I hope you like jammin' too</span></i><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%;"> - Bob Marley<br />
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We're all stuck, computer screens freeze into lockdown at will, and we're having to improvise like mad. </div>
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What does social distancing mean for jury trials? The all-party law reform and human rights organisation Justice is experimenting with mock Crown Court trials online, to assess their workability and fairness. I'm tuning in to the fictitious case of <i>R v Christopher Hallett</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, concerning alleged unlawful wounding with a wheel brace at a petrol station following an altercation about loud music played in an open-top car. </span><br />
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It's delayed by an hour and a half because a juror has tech problems. Then we see the virtual court with judge, jury, clerk, counsel, defendant, and witnesses in turn, like a pile-up of Punch and Judy booths, but there's no sound. I'd like a lip reader with me and a sign language interpreter on screen. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prosecuting counsel wins on colour. His striking scarlet background seems to reinforce his message. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Colour affects emotions. Red is a political colour to some. I would impose a neutral background.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone else sits in the grey-to-magnolia spectrum apart from the judge, who appears in front of multiple versions of the royal coat of arms, wallpaper style.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am uncomfortable with the
prominence of the jury. I would rather not see them at
all, as the present format allows them to be identified by people
beyond the court. I certainly don't want to draw them.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">At last the sound comes on. The judge is warning the jury that it can be hard to concentrate on a virtual scene: 'I ought to notice if any of you drifts off... I will say generally "time to wake up" as it were...' He points out that the jury's on-screen view of the witness is 'as good as if not better than the view you get in court' but balances that by saying that a blind judge is not at a disadvantage. I think of Sir John Fielding, the blind </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> eighteenth century </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">magistrate whose innovations helped to bring about stipendiary magistrates and the Bow Street Runners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, prosecuting counsel piles on the drama: the defendant used a wheel brace 'to strike, to assault, to hit...'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is bundle malfunction. Everyone can see the document except the judge. 'Don't worry about me,' he says, probably for the first and last time in his career on the bench.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is an awful lot of face-touching, mainly from counsel and judge. Defence counsel manages finger licking too. A juror sneezes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm drawing in an aimless sort of way. Sketching in the courts below the UK Supreme Court is illegal. I recently got in touch with the Royal Courts of Justice to check that this applied to hearings that were currently streamed. They confirmed that I would have to draw from memory - either switching off my device or retreating to another room. I pointed out that the picture would look like a Francis Bacon screaming pope with a Laura Ashley border. Today I'm ignoring the stricture as this is a mock-up.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHkiUq7dTGG0E9tVo8el7jD2iD2qbZYMyntS-6KZKv3r8K6uqn9Mybq0YZPzvEo0fQ9r0TDPtveB1QXQZFXt5PUpqCCcPRS3OoXzS9MCBd0XMH1wSkjZh8KhkPUpvhbncegtm5kfJCWU/s1600/Crown+Court+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="1600" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHkiUq7dTGG0E9tVo8el7jD2iD2qbZYMyntS-6KZKv3r8K6uqn9Mybq0YZPzvEo0fQ9r0TDPtveB1QXQZFXt5PUpqCCcPRS3OoXzS9MCBd0XMH1wSkjZh8KhkPUpvhbncegtm5kfJCWU/s320/Crown+Court+1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a virtual courtroom, no one knows what else you might have on your split screen. I resisted the stream from the Metropolitan Opera (<i>Hamlet </i>by Ambroise Thomas) and a random episode of <i>Crown Court</i>, a magnificent TV series which you are too young to know about but can be found on YouTube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The brief lunch break is like a Shakespearean scene of comings and goings, overhearings and misunderstandings in a twilit forest, with Puckish technology thwarting the unwary. Individual cells blacken and flicker back to life. The judge removes his wig for some more face and head touching and stares into his camera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'The public are still listening,' the clerk warns judge and counsel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'I'm going to mute my video,' says the judge, 'in case some gossip comes into my head that I can't resist sharing with you and the whole world.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the break, glitches are resolved. </span><span style="color: black;">Professor Linda Mulcahy from Oxford University, one of the independent academics who is evaluating the test, does a brilliant turn as a witness for the defence.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When the jury retires, the judge reckons that they won't reach a verdict: 'I'll give you odds,' he says, but fails to run an illegal book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Have you reached a verdict?' asks the clerk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">'No,' says the forewoman. The judge beams. In a show of hands, seven would convict, three would acquit, two don't know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><i>This
is the fictional case of </i>R v Christopher Hallett<i>, indicted for s20 Offences Against the Person Act unlawful wounding. HH Alistair McCreath is
presiding at the virtual Crown Court, Pimlico. The
prosecutor is Mark Trafford QC. Defence counsel is Rosina Cottage QC. </i>
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<![endif]-->Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-7322586098489708672019-12-17T14:15:00.001+00:002019-12-23T11:33:41.684+00:00Clare Holtham's memoir 'Under the Stars': alone on the lost hippy trail <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I went as usual to sell some blood.</i><br />
<br />
Clare Holtham (1948-2010) was a fearless traveller. <i>Under the
Stars</i> is the unpublished memoir of
her independent journeys overland from England to India in 1969 and the early
70s.<br />
<br />
Here is the full text in four pdfs - just click on each link. Please email me (see right) if you have difficulty in accessing them:<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/holtham/ClareI.pdf"><i>Under the Stars Part 1</i></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/holtham/ClareII.pdf"><i>Under the Stars Part 2</i></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/holtham/ClareIII.pdf"><i>Under the Stars Part 3</i></a></b><br />
<i><b><a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/holtham/ClareIV.pdf">Under the Stars Part 4</a></b></i><br />
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Clare took public transport or hitch-hiked. The world turns, and the Buddhas of Bamiyan she
photographed have been destroyed. Unprotected
travellers can no longer follow her routes - but even Clare's account tells of westerners killed by tribesmen or a nervous border guard. <br />
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She smells water in the desert; keeps a meticulous food diary;
engages with languages, literature, history and anthropology rather than hippies on the trail.
She dallies with a customs officer and is attracted to an Uzbek chieftain she
meets on the road, becoming his bride for a night. She maintains that drinking
the local water builds her resistance to illness; brushes off a threatened
robbery at gunpoint; makes her own luck (for example, one morning she gets up
early to visit a tailor, thereby missing the Mickey Finn breakfast administered
to other Europeans in the Afghan hostel who then have their passports
stolen).<br />
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Clare writes
with detached candour, driven by restless curiosity. She feels safer in central
Asia than in 'cold Europe'. She banters politely but as an equal. She meets
illiterate tribesmen bristling with guns and knives and knows at once that she
can trust them with her life. Where does this equanimity come from in such a
young woman, travelling mostly alone?<br />
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The answer is
lost in the negative space of her narrative. There is no reliable account of
her rudderless teenage years, which included a remand home, sleeping rough and
a forced self-reliance. We don't know what norms she acquired while many of
those who went on to join her at Newnham College, Cambridge, were being hot-housed and cosseted. <br />
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From the prologue to <i>Under the Stars </i>('parents' = father and stepmother; L.C.C. = London County Council):<br />
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Clare's memoir is archived at Newnham, email archives@newn.cam.ac.uk.<br />
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Clare's book of poems, <i>The Road from Herat</i>, is featured in this short account of her extraordinary life: <a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/for-lust-of-knowing-what-should-not-be-known">click here</a>. Copies are available from Newnham's Roll Office (roll@newn.cam.ac.uk, tel. 01223 335757, personal callers welcome, preferably with prior notice), price £8. All proceeds go to a Newnham travel scholarship in Clare's name.<br />
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Any use of Clare's writing and pictures needs to be approved first by her literary executor Roger Garfitt, email r.garfitt@btinternet.com<b>.</b><br />
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<b>Drawings and maps</b><br />
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Clare drew beautiful maps and pictures. Some are here; the Newnham archive contains more, together with photographs and many rolls of film. She took Bartholomew's maps with her and may have traced some of them, but she was also capable of drawing maps freehand on a train window in Indian ink.<br />
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<br />Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-48316259600187281042019-11-21T13:28:00.002+00:002019-12-07T21:19:09.868+00:00Supreme Court: Gerry Adams's appeal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'I'm sufficiently old to be able to remember something of the contemporaneous events,' says Lord Kerr, who is presiding over <i>R v Adams</i>. To the girl who briefly sits beside me, flicking through WhatsApp, it's ancient history.<br />
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I remember the British confusion when the IRA bombing campaign reached the mainland in 1973. Metropolitan litter bins disappeared. Public lavatories at railway termini were briefly closed. It was said that the Bakerloo line would never be bombed as it serves the Irish community in Kilburn. I was told about a girl with an Irish accent carrying her
brother's birthday cake on the Tube: the police cut the cake into
little pieces to prove that it didn't contain explosives. Did that happen? There were more sophisticated ways of dealing with suspect devices but it was plausible at the time. <br />
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Lord Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice, has joined the Supreme Court bench today. Gerry Adams is absent. The court is tumbleweed alternating with tour parties who come and go with a swish of Gore-Tex on the wood and leather seats. The air conditioning is barely audible; the bagpiping busker outside can't be heard thanks to triple glazing. Now and then the Welsh slate clock on the wall makes its sinister rasp;
disappointing too was the harsh, dissonant voice of Gerry Adams once the
British were allowed to hear it, instead of the silver-toned actors who dubbed him from 1988-1994, when a broadcast ban applied to Irish dissident groups. <br />
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Professor Alan Paterson, author of <i>Final Judgment</i>, about the early years of the Supreme Court, slips in towards the end of the appeal.<br />
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Gerry Adams is trying to clean up his criminal record. In 1975 he was convicted twice for attempting to escape from the Maze prison where he was interned without charge or trial. But government papers released under the 30-year rule showed that his interim custody order, made by the Minister of State under the Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 art. 4(1), had not been considered by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who was then Willie Whitelaw. Does this make the order invalid?<br />
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The wording goes under the microscope. As with Brexit ('a' customs union versus 'the' customs union) we are in 'a' Secretary of State versus 'the' Secretary of State territory. In play is <i>Carltona Ltd v Commissioners of Works </i>which equated acts of government officials with acts of the minister.<br />
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Counsel makes a reference to 'groping at perpetual twilight' and when the Supreme Court puts the recorded film on its website I will be able to check the context but meanwhile I am left with Isaiah 59:10: <i>We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.</i><br />
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After the hearing I encounter a real live hunger strike on Victoria Street, far in distance and time from the ten Provisional IRA hunger strikers who died in the Maze in 1981: beyond House of Fraser's twinkly Christmas display, Extinction Rebellion campaigners are lodged outside Labour Party HQ.<br />
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Further up and down this street which connects a Protestant abbey and a Catholic cathedral, rough sleepers are muffled against the cold or insensible to it. A woman handing out leaflets says, 'Give your lives to Jesus, people.' <br />
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Coda: the British have a long and painful tradition of indifference to/ignorance of Ireland. I am beyond sickened by those who would trash the Good Friday Agreement for the sake of pitiful delusions about Brexit. It has been keeping a fragile peace, more or less, since 1998.<br />
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<br />Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-44919280822343724112019-11-01T14:23:00.000+00:002019-11-01T16:50:05.908+00:00Noises on and off: in the magistrates' court<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When it comes to penetrating the studied opacity of a magistrates' court I'm a bungling novice, so I'm waiting for the appearance of a defendant who's already been bailed and gone home.<br />
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I'm encumbered by my sodden folding umbrella (the stand at the entrance is reserved for weapon-umbrellas, the non-telescopic kind). <br />
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I am in a row of public seats at the back. About 18 inches in front of these seats is a horizontal steel cylinder, the height of my jaw when seated. I feel penned in. When I inadvertently knock the bar's upright hollow metal support, it sounds like the demonic church bells from the drug-induced <i>Dream of a Witches' Sabbath</i> in Berlioz's <i>Symphonie Fantastique</i>.<br />
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The courtoom is largely composed of horizontals, from the long wood panels behind the wide raised bench to the narrow stripes in the carpet tiles. This makes the greenish verticals between the security glass panels of the dock rather striking: they evoke bars.<br />
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The dock's separateness says 'guilty as hell'. It has a locked glass door to the courtroom and another door at the back leading to mysteries below. There are chairs and a big red panic button. Defendants who have been detained emerge through the internal door. Those who have not been detained are ushered into the dock from the courtroom by an official and locked in. (This contrasts with the doorless lavatory cubicles in the same building.)<br />
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The official takes away the key. The defendant stands when addressed by the person I assume to be a district judge, no longer called a stipendiary magistrate, who is wearing a lot of very white pearls. <br />
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When it's quiet you can hear the clock ticking. The microphones for bench, clerk and advocates create a flattering, authoritative resonance. The person in the dock is miked differently if at all and speaks from a different acoustic: the effect is drier, duller. <br />
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In Winchester Crown Court I saw the Naked Rambler lean forward in the dock at times, straining to catch through the glass what was being said in the courtroom, and thereby forced to adopt a servile posture. <br />
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Much has been said about the message sent out by the dock. At least this one can be seen from the public seats. In many courts,
including some built this century, it is not.<br />
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To the left of the bench, a door leading backstage is propped wide open with three legal tomes. Behind it, another door stands open onto a corridor from which we occasionally hear incongruous snatches of conversation and laughter. Mortals at liberty are glimpsed walking past on a raised level, indifferent to the courtroom scene.<br />
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The accumulation of cases is depressing. If someone is already working mostly to pay fines, what is the effect of imposing another fine? If someone can be provoked to violence, or has a mental disorder, or has been changed by long-term use of drugs, or has had a miserable education or a rotten family life or any combination of these factors, is another prison sentence going to accomplish anything other than keep an offender out of the public's way for a while? <br />
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During a brief adjournment, someone pops his head round the door for a chat with his colleagues.<br />
'What have you got later?' he asks.<br />
'All your rubbish from Court 10.'<br />
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Outside in the waiting area, a lawyer at the end of his tether addresses
the air: 'I've been waiting for a Polish interpreter for one and a half
hours.' He is a living clich<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span> from the well-documented, underfunded travails of the justice system. <br />
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The day ends with a surprise trip to A&E for excellent treatment from EU citizens in an understaffed hospital, a last hurrah before the NHS swirls down the plughole of despicable political ambition.Will the justice system join it?<br />
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When it comes to stopping London traffic, Extinction Rebellion is pathetic. They may be creating up to two weeks' inconvenience, but there's no let-up from TfL's ever-tightening stranglehold all over the city.<br />
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Meanwhile the court system, already congested, struggles to deal with XR arrestees from the April action. City of London Magistrates' Court is processing most of them. Today, about 50 are attending plea hearings. A cluster of the red rebel brigade, with their whitened Buster Keaton great stone faces, clings to the doorway like a scarlet sea anemone waving its tentacles.
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The staff are under pressure. One of them prods my handbag. 'Is that a bottle?'<br />
'Do you want me to drink some?'<br />
'Yes,' he says, but turns away.<br />
I ask him to watch, which annoys him, but I'm not going through this pantomime without an audience.<br />
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About 30 people crowd into a small annexe to Court 4 - defendants, being rapidly briefed by a solicitor, plus supporters. Vegan snacks are spread out on a table - cereal bars, grapes, bread, hummus, nuts (courtesy of XR, not the court). In this air-conditioned building the room is stifling. An official opens the misty double-glazed windows. Something for an eco architect to sort out. We hear the occasional banshee wail from the red brigade outside.<br />
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A woman tells me that, while protesters were sleeping in a crypt last night, an infiltrator stole electronic music equipment, including one man's entire music output. Back up, people. Also her phone, which contained her rail ticket home. <br />
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Eight defendants who have pleaded guilty are ushered into the functional starkly lit court room, together with their supporters, who outnumber them and sit at the back. <br />
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'I was locked on to the hearse on Trafalgar Square yesterday,' says the supporter next to me. She released herself as the police didn't have time to get round to everyone. How do glued-on people unstick themselves? She says you can use acetone or Coca-Cola, which confirms
everything I've always thought about that evil drink. I ask politely
about the lavatory arrangements for the glued-on and I'm told people bring round buckets.<br />
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The district judge is businesslike but benign and keeps the atmosphere calm. The defendants have been charged under Section 14 of the Public Order
Act 1986 - generally because they ignored police instructions to
leave a static, passive protest. A policeman is quoted: 'I saw the defendant lying in the carriageway singing.'<br />
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The youngest is a student aged 19, the oldest is
retired. Three women, five men. One is represented by a lawyer. The magistrate
advises the others to note what the lawyer says in case it helps their own statements.<br />
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'We will hear very eloquent speeches from the self-represented,' says the lawyer to the magistrate. 'Think
about the range of people before you and the number. This is possibly the
largest campaign of civil disobedience for 150 years.' Is he referring
to the Chartists?<br />
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He quotes an apocalyptic open letter from Professor James Hansen, NASA's former head of climate research, which highlights catastrophic 'climate denialism and associated pseudo-scientific canards.' I think it's <a href="https://planb.earth/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Hansen-letter-to-general-public.pdf">this one</a>.<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 20px; left: 493.108px; top: 721.888px; transform: scalex(0.946403);"></span> <br />
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The lawyer adds that the protest 'is about
the survival of humanity itself. Bear in mind their good character, the danger they seek to avoid, the clear scientific consensus and the failure of government to act.' <br />
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In justifying their actions he refers to the case of<i> R v Jones (Margaret)</i> [2007] 1 AC 136. Ask a lawyer.<br />
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The magistrate says that he has 'spoken eloquently on behalf of all the defendants', and has claimed that 'the law has been broken for a noble motive' using a 'scientific basis'. <br />
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Among the observers sits a tricoteuse. Crochet, anyway. She casts on
and does about four rows of openwork using two skeins of thick yarn
simultaneously, pink and purple. She is wearing the black tee shirt with
glittery spider motif in honour of the Supreme Court's prorogation
judgment. It has become clique-wear. Like mods and their parkas. Or some
French aristocrats during the Revolution and their blood-red necklaces
or ribbons in defiance of the guillotine. <br />
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The remaining seven defendants each make a short speech in mitigation, mostly from notes, although the one who apologises for not having prepared anything speaks concisely and makes a good impression. She works with children in care and doesn't want to risk her career. 'I'm deeply sorry people have been impacted... I am ashamed and terrified by being arrested but I sent a message
to our government that I'd no longer be complicit in this mass
extinction.' She is reluctant to have children.<br />
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The magistrate says that she has expressed her 'moral obligation' and this term is adopted by other defendants.<br />
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'I'm the sort of person who always follows the rules,' says a scientist with a PhD and two young children. The current level of carbon dioxide was last seen three million years ago. 'Brexit will be a side-show in comparison [but there's linkage - Ed.]. I don't want to disrupt people - I feel incredibly uncomfortable with that...There is no non-extreme future. There will be extreme cuts or extreme impacts. Nature doesn't do deals... You can't argue with the physics... Environmental activists are being killed in other countries... I was kept for two hours in a van and 24 hours in a cell, with no phone call allowed until the next day, causing distress to my family... This should be a political issue. Calling us "uncooperative crusties" is not helpful.' <br />
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The magistrate points out that many defendants 'are highly qualified people with insight into the issues.'<br />
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They continue.<br />
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'I plead technically guilty, morally innocent.' (That is not recognised by the court.)<br />
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'The UK is among the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Since 1970, 77% of airborne insects have disappeared.' I think of the tapestry of insects which no longer impacts the windscreen on motorways.<br />
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'I didn't expect to find myself as a middle-aged man in the back of a police van... I apologise for taking police away from normal duties... Many officers shared our concerns if not our methods... I would have acted differently if I'd known how this was going to play out.'<br />
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'Business as usual is killing us.'<br />
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'The Government declared a climate emergency after our last action.'<br />
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The district judge says that, unusually for people who break the law, 'you did it from a sound motivation and genuine and legitimate concern about the planet and man's activities.' Even so, 'it is the court's duty to look at offences from all perspectives.' The police statement said that there was 'very considerable impact on transport infrastructure, local people and business.' <br />
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Each defendant is of good character. One defendant's encounter with a class A drug is old enough to be exempt. Another's 'excellent A-Levels' have been referred to earlier, so keep revising, kids. <br />
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Full credit is given for a guilty plea, making the sentence 'lower than it might otherwise have been.'<br />
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Each is given a conditional discharge for six months. 'If you choose to commit an offence and are found guilty, this matter can be reopened and you can be sentenced afresh.' They are given two months to pay £105 - three months in the case of the student. The magistrate asks those who want information about the police body-worn footage to stay and talk to him.<br />
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I leave court and go to the Strand, where rough sleepers open another chasm. <br />
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It's easy to feel alienated by the dominant tribe within XR - the public yoga, the suffocating middle-classness, the terrible poetry which admits no criticism, the right-on self-righteousness. Don't patronise me, don't parade your cloying sense of moral superiority. <br />
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But in court today the argument is distilled. The professional framework, the crisp pace and the display of true conviction without the dafter stunts help to unscramble the message. And I like the stipe, who combines a man-of-the-people air with the reassurance of a top-class obstetrician.<br />
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NB if you want to find out about court listings and other data, <a href="https://www.opengovernment.org.uk/2019/10/10/why-we-need-a-national-commitment-to-open-justice-data/">good luck</a>. <br />
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I wander around Trafalgar Square, hoping to see any of the people I used to draw in the emotional sprawl of the Occupy camps, most of all our beloved Tom who avoided the horrors to come by dying at the age of 28. Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-88232121061183255772019-09-29T17:02:00.000+01:002019-09-29T17:02:12.860+01:00'Carnival Compilation' at Kensington Town HallSome of my Notting Hill Carnival drawings were included in a display at Kensington Town Hall in Hornton Street from July-September 2019. All are Elimu Mas Academy except the first one which is from the Launch of the Bands 2019. With thanks to Carnival Village Trust.<br />
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Wet. More wet. Queue in rain from 7am. Hide from cameras. Sky journalist Adam Boulton's beige cloth coat is drenched and clings to his bulky form. The crews and photographers are soggy but jocular. I eat a Gregg's croissant.<br />
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The omens aren't great. On his way in, Michael Fordham QC pauses to talk briefly to the only man queueing without an umbrella. A couple of minutes later, a member of staff emerges to lend him a big black Supreme Court brolly. It does not open properly. It does not provide comfort or shelter. This is bad. Someone else in the queue assists. Together they prop it half-open.<br />
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Even worse: on day 2 of the hearing Aidan O'Neill QC, representing Joanna Cherry QC MP, is going large on Celtic twilight and says 'Macbeth' in open court. Surely that's as ominous as pronouncing it in a theatre? Shouldn't he follow thesps' tradition and leave the court, spin around three times, spit, swear and knock on the door for Derek Allen the Court Usher to let him back in?<br />
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Shortly before opening time, we are handed our salmon pink tickets. Mine gets soaked. I could have been having a different kind of watery experience, in Venice, with my friend Jacqueline. I have chosen to be here, among puddles, not canals or lagoons.<br />
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When she says 'unanimous' there are suppressed gasps.<br />
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It could be happening. <br />
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More gasps and a whispered 'Jeeze' when she says 'unlawful'.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In her judgment she goes back to 1611 - the likely date of the first public performance of <i>Macbeth</i>, although it was performed earlier for King James. </span><br />
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I get an urgent message from Jacqueline. Can I fnd out where Lady Hale got her spider brooch? It's news to me that she's wearing one as I couldn't see her from my seat. The arachnid frenzy breaks shortly afterwards.<br />
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Tense, head down, guarded by a phalanx of police officers, Gina Miller walks swiftly to the Supreme Court entrance. 'Disgusting,' shouts an agitated man in a lime green
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'You're doing a great job,' calls out Leo, a
German exchange student at King's College London from the French
institution Sciences Po, cradle of Marcel Proust, Christian Dior and
Emmanuel Macron. He has a mane of red-gold hair from his Celtic
grandmother. 'Thank you,' says Gina Miller.<br />
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It's the third and final day of <i>R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister</i> and <i>Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland. </i><br />
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There's a holiday feeling in the queue - we're enjoying a temporary break watching the grown-ups in court rather than the political Punch and Judy show with its rhetoric made of artificial sausages.<br />
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Femi Oluwole, the Darlington-born Remain idol whose idiomatic French has been admired by Michel Barnier, is out here making
two of his couldn't-be-clearer explainer videos and interviewing Jolyon
Maugham QC, founder of the Good Law Project which is backing Joanna Cherry QC MP's case.<br />
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Into court we go. 'Oh no, where's my ticket? If I've lost it I'm ****ed,' someone observes correctly. That little rectangle of coloured paper, handed to us by friendly court staff who engage in the banter, is our entry to Courtroom 1.<br />
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Lady Hale warns Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC: 'You might have to speak up a bit.' She explains that the microphones don't necessarily amplify your voice: they are there to 'ensure that it's transmitted worldwide.'<br />
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Advocates are focused solely on the bench whereas the court is acutely conscious of its entire audience, well beyond the back of the courtroom (today barely containing a tide of constitutional law geekery which over the next decades will work its way towards the front). Lord Wilson warns Ronan Lavery QC, representing the victims' rights campaigner from Northern Ireland, Raymond McCord: 'I'm really worried about your submissions. So many people are listening
to you. Perhaps some of them have just turned on and they will hear
these points, these general points about Brexit and its effect on
Northern Ireland, and...may come to an entirely wrong
conclusion, namely that this is what we are looking at. Now don't abuse our politeness and don't abuse Lady Hale's patience.' A student whispers, 'Wow.'<br />
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Michael Fordham QC's personal volume control is erratic, sometimes startlingly so, but his style is arresting.<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><br />
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One downside of being at the back is that you can't see the rich cavalcade of Sir James Eadie QC's facial
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On one side of me is an undergraduate who has braved a long journey
on public transport with a crutch, having dislocated her knee six times. On the other side is an LLB student whose interest in constitutional law comes from being Ukrainian. <br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The hearing is allowed to overrun by 15 minutes. The back rows don't want it to end. The court is a prelapsarian place of greater safety. Before the potential prolapse of the judgment. Prerogative. Prorogation. Oh Christ.</span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">We don't hear the shouty crowds outside because of the triple glazing. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The court has become our reality.</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The sunlit beauty of St James's Park feels staged. I walk to the Royal Over-Seas League in search of carbohydrates. The information screen in the foyer says that the Teeth Meeting is in the Wrench Room. Good grief, I've been a member for 25 years and still haven't a clue what goes on here. </span><br />
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<i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">There is abundant legal commentary on social media. The <a href="https://ukscy.org.uk/">Supreme Court Yearbook</a> is learned but approachable, while <a href="http://isobelwilliams.org.uk/Reviews.php">The Supreme Court: A Guide for Bears</a> caters for a niche audience.</span></i><br />
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As with the Proms, you may get better sound and vision if you watch the Supreme Court on the live-stream, and today it's more like the Proms than usual as you have to queue. Someone here got up at 2am to drive from Wales.<br />
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There is enough bright-eyed consitutional law expertise in this queue to set up a new nation. Enthusiasts from LSE and King's College London include the nephew of a Supreme Court justice from another country and a descendant of Mohammed. <br />
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Protests against prorogation are silent and dignified (the abrasive counter-protest is to turn up later). A disconsolate Hulk is joined by RoboCop but otherwise there is hardly any visible policing. Law tutor and PhD student Robert Craig, who has arrived on a bike, is shielded by a friend with a coat while he changes out of his brown trousers - symbolic garb of the sentient part of the UK at the moment - into the pin-stripes that complete his three-piece suit, ready for his TV interviews.<br />
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Time to go in and we're told we can't take in liquids. A lot of bottles are instantly emptied against the walls of the court, giving it an unseemly air. A man is not allowed to take his big Europe flag beyond security.<br />
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Lady Hale stills the courtroom by calmly pointing out that the matter in
hand has nothing to do with how or when the UK leaves the EU. Then <i>R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister</i> and <i>Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland</i> begin. The man next to me takes out his opera glasses.<br />
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As legal commentators take flight we hear the skittering of fingers on keyboards, together with the occasional forbidden peeping and chirruping of devices, some in lawyers' hands. For the morning's queue-and-court experience try @louise_rowntree.<br />
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In my limited amateur experience, the more important the case, the earlier the bundle malfunction starts, and this case is no exception, but even so it's a huge relief to be in a legal arena. Crude political jabber is absent.<br />
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We are in the realm of the grown-ups, who aim to conduct reasoned arguments using facts and laws as a basis for interpretation, rather than whipping up tribal emotions for undisclosed ends. David Pannick is made for voice-overs selling life insurance. With a reassuring warmth in his voice, he is calm, earnest, clear, steady of pace, and not rattled when interventions from the bench change the rhythm.<br />
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Lady Hale is wearing her silver dragonfly brooch. Because of the dwindling insect population I have spotted only one dragonfly in my garden this year. We should be concentrating on the environmental crisis in front of our noses, not squabbling about boundaries. <br />
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Visitor numbers are clearly down this year. The capitalists around the corner, who sell loo visits in their stucco villa for £2 a time, confirm this. The house is not well signposted, unfortunately for the woman who has to squat between two cars parked in the next road while as usual men are relieving themselves openly.<br />
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My carnival split personality cross-examines itself every year. Like all residents I obsess about the lavatory arrangements, but I also sketch the carnival. This year I go to see Elimu Mas Band getting ready in mas camp on day one, the children's day.<br />
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The still centre of calm is artist and carnival costume designer Helen Davenport, whirring away at the sewing machine to make one last skirt and deftly threading synthetic boning through the hem. She reminds me of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. I am blown away by the ingenuity of her fresh monochrome designs for the children, eye-catching among the traditional brights, skirts swaying at a sharp angle (for photos see @heluvartist on Instagram).<br />
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At 6pm the police are issued with high-vis jackets. I wander around with a friend. 'We are an unhealthy nation,' she remarks, looking at the round proportions of some of the riot police. A beautiful police horsewoman rides by like a mediaeval princess. We walk through the knife-scanner arches without attracting attention.<br />
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A pre-carnival<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> event at Emslie Horniman's Pleasance in West London has a visitation from</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> moko jumbies, the stilt-dancing African spirits who follo</span></span>wed the slave routes by walking across the oceans. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Windrush-themed costumes
are designed and made by Alan Vaughan for #OriginMokoJumbies. Today's performers - Alan, Blessing, Igor (Sphyfro) and Marshal - are attached to
Elimu Mas Academy. For more information please see the Moko Somõkõw
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At the beginning of the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival 2019, I glimpse Alan and Shynel Brizan, Carnival Queen of Trinidad and Tobago, walking out to join the band. I miss out on seeing the full costumes which they wear the next day.<br />
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<br />Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-65710218394092690272019-07-23T17:05:00.000+01:002019-07-23T17:05:02.571+01:00Knit your own moko jumbies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CnOFEBNhkymyGvo9cxTqL64G5CreQIcPw-ubMPr_hCL-aLnfFY6BQJuLXMQIWp1X9ARWazEq2aZeuThJSi4iZjnkjCnmbrAdKgilfxjse-F8X8y8MuDs_dtZqXScj35266cxr4uzXl0/s1600/elimu+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="1600" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CnOFEBNhkymyGvo9cxTqL64G5CreQIcPw-ubMPr_hCL-aLnfFY6BQJuLXMQIWp1X9ARWazEq2aZeuThJSi4iZjnkjCnmbrAdKgilfxjse-F8X8y8MuDs_dtZqXScj35266cxr4uzXl0/s320/elimu+1.jpg" width="320" /></a>Moko jumbies dance on stilts, possessed by legends of benign spirits who followed the slave routes. <br />
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Alan Vaughan's costume designs are bold and other-worldly. Today he and his team are part man, part tea-cosy in knit-and-crochet patchwork with trailing scarlet fabric fronds.<br />
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Something as safe and familiar as a granny-made baby blanket becomes a mysterious wool mask for mas, the eerie figures raised above human height to pace across the oceans from Africa, garments made of single stitches, dances made of single steps.<br />
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Today the most gruelling part is the passage from courtyard to interior, staying on stilts while squirming through doors. I'm reminded of the ordeal in <i>2001: A Space Odyssey </i>when Dave Bowman has to go through the airlock without his space helmet.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Costumes designed and made by Alan Vaughan for #OriginMokoJumbies. Performing with Alan today are Blessing, Igor (Sphyfro) and Marshal, at the costume launch held at Paddington Arts, organised by Carnival Village Trust and Elimu Mas Band. For more information please see the Moko Somõkõw Facebook page.</i></span></span>Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-62632051181465253822019-06-04T15:43:00.000+01:002019-06-05T08:31:11.556+01:00Beginner moko jumbies find their balance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Moko jumbies - healing spirits of legend striding over the seas to follow the slave routes from Africa - are portrayed by stilt-walkers. Some of their most stupefying costumes are designed by Alan Vaughan, prize-winning artist, moko jumbie performer and coach. With his teams he is a carnival regular at Notting Hill and Port of Spain.<br />
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Performance on sticks takes bravery. Skidding on wet ground, dust or a scrap of paper can make you fall. In just a light breeze, vast sail-like costumes and complex head-dresses give unwelcome resistance and the long
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This training weekend is for beginners on short starter sticks. The crump and clack of a body on wooden stilts hitting the tarmac is mercifully rare.<br />
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I listen to Alan gently coaxing a nervous pupil. I want him to record his soft, fluent words of reassurance, for his tone of voice as much as the content. He could get people to stop smoking with a tape like that.<br />
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'It's kind of easy but very scary at the same time.'<br />
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'Slow down!'<br />
'He can't - he's learning to walk.'<br />
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'Rita, guess what, I'm exploring the world.'<br />
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<i>The moko jumbie instruction, at the Yaa Centre in Notting Hill, was organised by Carnival Village Trust and Elimu Mas Academy. Alan was assisted by Blessing and Marshal of <span class="_5afx"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">OriginMokoJumbies.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">More information is on the Moko Somõkõw Facebook page.</span></span></i></div>
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Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-77051500837672301852019-06-01T11:34:00.000+01:002019-06-01T11:34:09.607+01:00Genji, shodō (書道), life<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I leave the radiant morning and plunge into a cavernous pub. Early birds or night-shift workers are sinking pints. I order toast and marmalade - ca<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">rbohydrate-loading before Taki Kodaira's calligraphy class. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 120px; top: 1114.67px; transform: scaleX(0.995485);">I'm reading <i>The Tale of Genji</i>, the sprawling eleventh-century Japanese classic of prose, poetry and romantic intrigue:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This week's struggle for the real thing involves writing out 'letters...like...this...person', i.e. 'your handwriting exposes your character'. Indeed. My better-natured left-handed Dr J</span></span>ekyll has to be suppressed for this activity, thanks to ancient Japanese cultural norms. My evil right-(wrong)-handed inner Mr Hyde is exposed. <br />
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Charge Notice (PCN) for £130. You need to pay this within 28 days. If
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This evening it's life class, where every mark you make displays your character; it's not the model who's exposed. To make tonight's flawless model more interesting to draw, I use my wrong hand.<br />
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<br />Isobel Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910940801350695989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675431852443995.post-82638978290934040742019-05-21T15:40:00.002+01:002019-06-07T09:08:06.353+01:00Illustrating Proof magazine for The Justice Gap<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBGrWtpn0D5Twx2FmnpXqLJlJjv7KFFun_vTLpRTxysfa1lMvucH0rgMMIUIv6Wr5yTUjz9oyILfedCs0EhzK2OcnRIYBhkW49rvomv6BT2hKCx_zcYwQaqYYaHoyTv1dOmn917oHHu4/s1600/low+res+spice+drawing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1108" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBGrWtpn0D5Twx2FmnpXqLJlJjv7KFFun_vTLpRTxysfa1lMvucH0rgMMIUIv6Wr5yTUjz9oyILfedCs0EhzK2OcnRIYBhkW49rvomv6BT2hKCx_zcYwQaqYYaHoyTv1dOmn917oHHu4/s320/low+res+spice+drawing.jpg" width="221" /></a><a href="https://www.thejusticegap.com/">The Justice Gap</a> is an online magazine campaigning about the difference between law and justice. The latest issue of its printed magazine, <a href="https://www.thejusticegap.com/shop/#issue1">Proof</a>, focuses on crime and punishment.<br />
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Here are my contributions. For Hardeep Matharu's feature on the lethal spice epidemic in prisons, I co-opted my House Model: 'Hold this stick of chalk and try not to look double-jointed.'<br />
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The body combines elements of that spice-induced dead-puppet flop with a bound figure from my NSFW blog:<br />
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One section of the magazine covers miscarriages of justice. Without access to Paddy Hill of the Birmingham Six I drew him from photos (then and now) - something I generally recoil from, but that's over-fastidious because artists copied photographs and daguerreotypes as soon as
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Editor Jon Robins's feature about the wrongful convictions of Sam Hallam and Victor Nealon is illustrated with my drawings from their combined, ultimately unsuccessful Supreme Court appeals about compensation in 2018.<span id="docs-internal-guid-936428bf-2beb-0cf0-158b-c0dcf6e11cc8"> Sam Hallam served seven years in prison. Victor Nealon served 17 years. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather Williams QC on behalf of Hallam...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and Dinah Rose QC on behalf of Nealon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick Maguire (left, and see below) outside court before Hallam/Nealon appeals</td></tr>
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A preview of the next issue of <i>Proof</i>, featuring justice in a time of austerity, highlights the case of a father with complex legal needs, separated from his wife and stuck in a 'legal aid advice desert' in Suffolk. <br />
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Nothing comes out of nowhere: at the back of my mind was a black and white family snap of a paddling moment which became my first attempt at a lithograph decades later:<br />
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<i>Other illustrations include drawings by Patrick Maguire of the Maguire
Seven, who was wrongfully imprisoned at the age of 14. There are also
pictures selected by the Koestler Trust which encourages prisoners,
secure patients and detainees to engage with art. Among the photographs
are several by Andrew Aitchison who documents life behind bars. Art director: Andrew Stocks</i><br />
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