The Eye of the Beholder

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My fax machine has been struck by lightning....
......one of many essential phrases I found I needed for a life in rural France
 • Peter Harkness
The tree that made a nation weep....
.... and is now launching a new branch of the Law.
 • Peter Harkness
Time to charge the world for our Art?
Should Labour reverse two decades of free entry to our leading galleries for tourists?
 • Peter Harkness
Jim, Nye and Dick - Labour's secret farmers
Keir Starmer's massive fall-out with Britain's farmers might have seemed very odd to Labour leaders of the '50s and '60s
 • Peter Harkness
Eighty years later - and still there are those who deny the truth
The VE Day celebrations are already under way for the 80th time, but the other day I read - right here on Substack - somebody undermining the truth of…
 • Peter Harkness
Sun city?
Why is Cambridge apparently the epicentre of sundials?
 • Peter Harkness
I'm worried about eggs...
Not the silly worry some people have that they might be bad for you, I'm worried there might not be enough eggs to go round.
 • Peter Harkness
The Eye of the Beholder
The Eye of the Beholder
It's not just beauty which is in the Eye of the Beholder - I write about anything which catches my attention, as I amble through the worlds of art, history, politics and anywhere else I like.
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