Tributes paid to Michael Meacher

This BBC breaking news email alert arrived on 21 October 2015 at 13:58:

• BBC News report: Tributes paid to veteran Labour MP Michael Meacher
• FoE press release: Former environment minister Michael Meacher dies
• Guardian: Michael Meacher obituary
• PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn's tribute to Michael Meacher
• Guardian letters: Michael Meacher’s impressive environmental legacy
• MM's last blog post: Osborne stirs up more shit in which to bury himself in
• MM topical blog post: the Hinkley Point C nuclear payola ...

Amazing new mural at Frog Island, Leicester

Videoblog: "Very British"

Zitat von tagesschau.de:
Nach 20 Jahren berichtet ARD-Korrespondentin Hanni Hüsch wieder aus der Millionen-Metropole London. Zusammen mit ihrer Kollegin Julie Kurz ist sie ... "Very British".

"Very British" - alle Folgen gibt es hier.

Frank Auerbach on the importance of language (?)

I could have sworn that, during the recent (rare) interview with Frank Auerbach, there was a passage in which – in the context of the current migration crisis – Auerbach stressed the importance of language (for integration etc.), but I can't find it now. Something along the lines of "language is more important than looks", I think, unless I'm imagining it?

Further reading:

• Frank Auerbach – Wikipedia
• The painters' painter: A rare meeting with Frank Auerbach
• Frank Auerbach: Is he the UK's greatest living artist?
• Tate Britain: Frank Auerbach exhibition
• Frank Auerbach in the Guardian
• Frank Auerbach page at Artsy

Escher in London for the first time

Surprised to read that a current (autumn 2015) Escher exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery is "the first devoted to his work in England".

According to corresponding web page here, the exhibition was in fact organised by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and shown there before it moved to Dulwich. See here.

More info in an interesting article by Al Jazeera journalist Jessica Baldwin.

Looks like Escher but may not be. Source: Pixabay

Difference between 'made of' and 'made from'

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between 'made of' and 'made from'?

Cambridge Grammar of English by Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy provides this helpful and succinct distinction:

‘Made from’ is often used to describe manufacturing processes . . . 

‘Made of’ emphasises the inherent material or qualities of something, and has a meaning similar to ‘composed of’.

Thanks to Jacqui Birnie for the 'research' on this issue.