Click the link here to take you to the Index Magazine archive. Jamie Reid's longstanding practice as an artist sits firmly within a tradition of English radical dissent that would include, for example, William Blake, Wat Tyler and Gerrard Winstanley. Like them, the work of dissent must offer, out of necessity, other social and spiritual models and Reid's practice is no exception.
When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.â (...) âThe Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. â The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century.
World's biggest gold coin goes on tour. IT is the biggest, heaviest - and with a legal tender value of $1 million dollars - the most valuable gold bullion coin in the world. But, crafted by the Perth Mint, the Guinness World Record holding piece tips the scales at one tonne of 99.99 per cent pure gold - making it worth more than $50 million.