Tories use picture of German road in ‘road to recovery’ election poster
A Conservative election poster with the theme ‘the road to recovery’ has a photoshopped version of a photo taken near Weimar six years ago.
In an email to Elaine O’Neill, the photographer said: “I think 35 percent of the picture is taken from my picture, the sky and other elements from other pictures.”
This has gone down well on Twitter.
LATER NOTE: And here’s Steve Bell’s take.
Happy New Year to all readers and I wish you the infinite wealth which you may or may not get after seeing all seven noses in Soho on Peter Berthoud‘s tour – recommended. Do not fall for anyone offering you ‘six noses of Soho’ at a reduced rate. This is a pale copy and, what’s more, ineffective. The Peter Berthoud walk was not just about the noses and went all over Soho and beyond in two hours as the weather got drier and the skies gloomier.
We saw one of the altered traffic signs not yet spotted and reversed by Westminster Council:
I’d seen one in Brick Lane before. But I didn’t know they were a set and were the work of Clet Abraham, a French artist. There’s an interview with him in the Huffington Post.
The noses proper were the work of Rick Buckley, but because he didn’t out himself at first, stories grew up around them.
On reading this headline in The Local:
Merkel to meet Putin in January over Ukraine
I wonder whether anyone will shoot them down. However, the earlier headline about the blazing ferry has been improved (Flaming ferry counted 18 German passengers).
In the following, what role was played by Microsoft Word capitalizing words at the beginning of a line?
but maybe the locals can’t read.
On a different subject, there is probably a law against this kind of thing in Germany:
Heston also created his own kind of mince pies, which were OK except they weren’t really mince pies, more like Linzer Torte. They had the tangerine-flavoured sugar too.
Via Blog Burhoff online:
Both the above with text onscreen.
Here’s a photo taken earlier this week by my friend in Donzdorf, on the Schwäbische Alb. The shepherdess is carrying a newborn lamb up the hill to the place where the sheep are put in an electric fence. The mother ewe apparently headbutted the sheepdog aggressively. Up the hill, the lamb stood up and began to bounce around.
Even in the middle of Fürth I have seen shepherds and sheep – see earlier post. But I haven’t seen them moving along the roads.
More dangers lurk in Upminster than I knew of:
And here, in Bethnal Green, is a dangerous door:
