Sunday, October 29, 2006

The not-so-Independent.

I have caught the Independent recently [one step below catching flu, I now believe]. I had not realised that this rag is now as bad as the Guardian. I have reviewed Letters Pages and have been astonished by the pure arrogance of the we-know-what-is-best-for-you brigade who receive absurd amounts of space. Add these to the aggressive atheists who rather typically infected the pages last Saturday and I can say that it will be a long time before I subsidise that organ of the liberal elite again!

'New' Caravaggio on Display.

  “Caravaggio can freeze a moment — it’s hypnotic, magnetic and it’s coming home,” said Paola Nicita, an art historian who worked on the loa...