Vanity Fair: Statesman, No. 126 "An Arbitrator", 1872 https://t.co/PGC60burez

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17 Jan 1706: Benjamin is born in He is the youngest boy in a family of 17 children. Among his many accomplishments, he helped draft the Declaration of He died on April 17, 1790.

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“Are we all doomed?”, New Statesman asked Clive James in late weeks issue...“We are all going to die but I doubt that we’ll all go at the same time just because we’re managing the weather badly”... He made me laugh and he made me think. RIP Clive James.

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*disclaimer: I’m not sure if this is true*

the unused concept art for Avengers: Infinity War shows Loki successfully escaped the Statesman with the Tesseract to Jotunheim in hope to save Thor and his people. But Thanos found him later

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski, born in 1860, held a few titles during his life: pianist, composer, activist, polyglot, orator, politician, statesman, humanitarian, businessman, patron of art and architecture, winegrower, film actor and icon.

👉 https://t.co/MqcMA1h6rQ

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During his Roman sojourn (1600-1608), emulated Italian art; he also bought Italian drawings that he retouched. Do you think this is a retouch? In his inscription Rubens identified the subject as the 15th century Florentine statesman and patron Niccolò da Uzzano.

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The Princess is an expert of diplomacy, statesmanship, and swordfighting - skills she finds useful both when running a country and when dating. Play as her in Hey Cutie, the tabletop dating sim up on Kickstarter *right now* https://t.co/27IkIQ8GEC.

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Poetic lament (marthiyya) commemorating the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī (d. 680) composed by the Andalusi litterateur Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs of Murcia (d. 1202) & preserved in the works of the Granadan scholar-statesman Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374).

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How could I not love my Uriel Ultanos?
He's my muse because he's. A statesman, a philosopher, a determined fighter and a man of trust. He inspires me by his smarts, his will to lead and a determination to never leave anyone behind.

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It's bad to laugh at you own stuff, clearly, but this made me chuckle when I spotted it among my old Payne's Grey strips for the New Statesman...

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1950 Nash Statesman Custom Coupe

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Presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
~ Gore Vidal

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I just used the awesome (and free) Photoshop Watercolor Actions from to create this painting of a 1951 Nash Statesman Super car. Very cool!

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Astonishingly bald admission by Warsi (at last) of Tory government's utter irresponsibility, favouring careerism over statesmanship in the run-up to the Such cynicism. HT . Old (2016) cartoon here only to illustrate. https://t.co/f83feR05Rl

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Polish pianist, composer, and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the new Prime Minister of Poland (he will play an important role in securing the independence of Poland):

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Who was the first gay superhero? New Statesman has a new webcomic comic that tells you his very unique origin - https://t.co/CMwBUmYERr

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Also very happy to see Once Upon a Snowstorm by Richard Johnson in the New Statesman's Christmas round up.

'It's outstanding.'

Thanks , we think so too!

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