Henry Scott Tuke, Noonday Heat (1903), Clothed Version, Nude Version Below. Tuke Made Two Versions.

Henry Scott Tuke - Sun bathers (1927)

This is one of the last paintings Tuke did before he died in March 1929, of the semi-clad male figure by the sea leaning on the rocks, bathed in Cornish sunlight. It features one of his most loyal and longstanding models in Tuke's later years, Charlie Mitchell (1885 – 1957).

It is interesting to note that rents are typically substantially more than a mortgage would cost to buy said house. However, renters often are disenfranchised from the system for various reasons (maybe they are on benefits or low waged etc). BUT they manage to pay these exorbitant rents, so why not give them the mortgage to buy that house and pay the mortgage in the same way as they pay rent?

If you really feel this way, warn other people who are planning to become landlords that it's a bad idea. Tell them to leave homes for people who actually want to live in them, and to find something else to invest in.

But you don't do that. You brag on landlord forums about how much money you make and how little work you do. You only complain when your desire to exploit others isn't quite as profitable as you would like.

Robert Bliss, Standing young man (oval), 1967

Robert Bliss, Standing boy in dark swim trunks, 1958

Henry Scott Tuke, Summer sea, 1924

There is no democracy anywhere. Not in teh US, the UK, nowhere in Europe nor anywhere else. We cannot have a democracy when the choices are between this party or that party. We have no real choice and are in fact choosing the "least worst". Even when that is done we haven't chosen the real leaders, the wealthy power borkers who decide the candidates by wielding their wealth. The Electoral College in the US, the 'First past the post' in the UK are systemic barriers to a democracy as well. There is no Democracy

Here are some images from the artist Daniel Barclay. He has a great colour pallette.