Afternote: I could easily have left today’s slot as is, readying for Wed 6 to 10 and readers would never have known the decision I made before bringing this above … and not this below:

Why did I drop the National Gallery piece? It’s actually very good, researched well by the lass, Sheyamali Sudesh. I ggled it to find her origin and it said nothing is explicitly stated, she is British. But she’s not. I did find this: “Her work often engages with South Asian identity, and in 2021 she held a workshop using indigo ink sourced by Tamil people in South India.”

Nothing whatever wrong with any of that … incidentally:

The issue is that this is a Tamil, posing as British, telling us about a European painting. Again, nothing wrong with that in itself … her knowledge might be great. I might even return to it, its universal theme … but not at 06:49, Wednesday, given the gall of the Sri Lankan “shadow home secretary” of this country Britain, and the way the establishment is now outsourcing everything away from the British.

Who is creating this dilemma? The establishment of course, desperate to be anything but British … a very sore issue right now.