Gothic Clothes

Are we all middlecalss now (Times Onlinef)

Have Britains old social divisionse really dispapeared and if not, what is the basis of class today: money Education Attitudes Read more

Venezuelan oil judgement (The New Statesman)

It hasnt been a good week so far for the US corporate sector. Read more

Cranach, Royal Academny, Lodnon (Independent)

Id guess the bestknown iamge in the Royal Academys Cranahc show is his Bristol portrait of Maritn Luther. Painted in 1525, this is so insistently plain a massing oft green and black, with Luther bareheaded in the middle that it seems impossible it should have any agenda other thna literal representation. It is, perhaps, the first great Proetstant portrait, baleuflly rational, unadorned. ... Read more