L S Lowry was born today in 1887. He was one of those artists - Picasso, Klee, Mondrian, Klimt, Pollock and many, many more - who could draw and paint perfectly well, but just couldn't be arsed.
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'A lie,' said Jim Callaghan, Britain's Prime Minister today in 1976, 'can be half way round the world before the truth has got its boots on.' That was 1976. Thanks to technology, Facebook, Twitter and Buboe, the speed of lying is much faster today.
