A seemingly innocent photograph, just a family shot, Lila, Aunty and mummy, just everything ‘normal’. OR IS IT??? I had this picture assessed by three different verifying companies who found 71 instances of ‘evidence’ of ‘editing’. Lila has been made 0.35 inches taller than in real life. Where her arm crosses over to Rachie, you can distinctly see where this has been taken from another shot, probably of Lila holding a gun!! And Natalie wasn’t actually on the sofa at the time but in a drug rehab unit in Cheshire!!! The painting, a Martin Fuller, actually sits in a pub in Potters Bar.

So you see; all is not what it seems. And if every picture used to ‘tell a story’, in the ‘old world’, in the post-digital world, every picture tells about 5. All conflicting. So if Kate chooses to upset the royal-lovers by ‘deceiving’ them, you do have to question why she’d do that. Why create an ambiguity which needn’t have arisen. And then you’re at liberty to ‘not give a shit’.

Whereas Jonathan Glazer chose a different path to ostracism. He won an Oscar on Sunday night for ‘best foreign film’. Because he knew he’d never beat Oppenheimer, nor out-pink Barbie, the Londoner made ‘The Zone of Interest’ in German. Its a bit like realising you’ll never be good enough to get into the England football team, but if you find a Maltese relative, you can become captain of Malta, easy.

His acceptance speech was a dialogue about Gaza. And Israel. Probably both. And peace for all mankind, and comparisons with? justifications of? or using ill-fitting metaphors including: the Holocaust. A speech so riddled with ambiguity that no-one really had any idea what the f*** he was talking about. And he managed, in one, short burst of outpouring, to upset Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Seventh Day Adventists, Israelis, Palestinians, Zoroastrians, Australians and Serbo-Croats. A feat of such widespread insult of all parties that he was immediately offered a job at the BBC. It was a totally biased speech. But no-one knows towards whom. We didn’t know whether to hug him and make him dinner, or cut off his head.

We can all learn a lot from a man who can offend virtually everyone in the world with a 3-minute speech. Takes me pages.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx