The British banking giant Halifax has launched a new advertising campaign which depicts ordinary people such as this hardware store sales assistant called Linda Turner. In a widely televised ad, Linda is depicted as a cheery person who likes to help others who come into the hardware store: she feeds water to a dog, she…
Francis Bacon triptych at Christie’s auction, New York, 2013 Sold yesterday at Christie’s in New York for a staggering $142m, a Francis Bacon triptych has become, for now, the most expensive artwork ever to be sold at auction. This record-breaking sale is part of a far-reaching shift that is currently taking place in our globalized…
Benefit broods with five kids, The Sun, December 2012 It has become a weekly if not a daily ritual in Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper The Sun : in big and bold articles it writes how ‘feckless’ citizens work or cheat the state’s benefit system in order to support a lifestyle above and beyond what…