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.
The world's largest gold coin has been unveiled at the Perth Mint in Australia to mark to opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Western Australia capital. The biggest and heaviest gold coin in the world, unveiled by the Perth Mint Photo: EPA 8:48AM BST 27 Oct 2011 The giant coin weighs more than one tonne and is worth A$53.5 million (Â£35.1m).