Rebecca Kotey
@rebeccakoates
Christian | Freelance Journalist | Writer | Essays & articles on the humanities over on Substack :) | Age: 26 | Enquiries: rebeccakotey@journalismenquiries.co.uk
Children’s book art needs to start looking like this again. Those ugly drawings plastered on their front pages need to be removed. They’re revolting to look at.
An honourable goodbye to Starmer by Davey in his last #PMQs. You can tell Starmer never really enjoyed these, but he stuck them out anyway. He wanted to carry on as PM despite hating PMQs. An admirable trait, I suppose.
“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.“ — Roger Scruton.
🖼️ Art of the week: ‘The incoming mist, deer in the Highlands’ by Charles Stuart (1896).
My publication, ‘The Thinking Archive’, is now available. In it, I analyse deep topics of the humanities subjects, and also try my hand at writing a children’s story. If this is something you’d enjoy, the link is in my bio to subscribe! My purpose is to inform and to get you thinking.🕵🏽♀️
It’s clear that this version of interior design is considerably better than the minimalist grey version that is stripped of colour and detail. Taking away the beauty of things makes everything lifeless and ugly. We are made to live rich, maximalist lives.
🖼️Art of the week: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche (1833).
This is what happens when you become health obsessed: you’re inadvertently bringing on the thing you wish to avoid. A simple life where you live and eat naturally, and don’t worry about these sorts of things is really what’s best. Being hyper aware is also dangerous.
I’m ready for Autumn. Reading and writing will be so much better.🍂☕️
Extremely useful bit of information. Save for future use if you’re interested.
Have you noticed that what makes a city beautiful is its ability to incorporate nature with its surroundings? Look at Oxford and Cambridge, for instance.
“The word “man” implies that other animals never examine, or consider, or look up at what they see, but that man not only sees, but considers, and looks up at that which he sees, and hence he alone of all animals is rightly man.” — Plato
🖼️Art of the week: ‘Beneath the snow encumbered branches’ by Joseph Farquharson (1901).