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  • Money and Power: The (Secret) City

    Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than… Continue reading

    Money and Power: The (Secret) City
  • Art in London: Not ticking | The Economist

    THE shadow of a giant second hand sweeps in silent arcs around a sundial’s shaft, patterning the floor. It lengthens, then reverses, crossing tracks with shorter stripes that represent the minute and the hour. In the industrial vault of London’s… Continue reading

    Art in London: Not ticking | The Economist
  • Thomas Gainsborough | WikiPaintings.org

    Born in rural Suffolk, the largely self-taught [Thomas] Gainsborough established his reputation as a society portraitist at Bath, a popular resort, before moving to London in 1774. Despite his urban success, he never lost his love of the countryside and… Continue reading

    Thomas Gainsborough | WikiPaintings.org