"Proposition Diurne (la Femme Au Miroi)", 1937 by Paul Delvaux

"The Drowned Cathedral" (Brigid Marlin)

"The Flight of the Churches" (Brigid Marlin)

"The Sleeping City" (1938, Paul Delvaux)

"The Echo" (1943, Paul Delvaux)

"Portrait of J.G. Ballard" (1987, Brigid Marlin)

"The Conversation" (1944, Paul Delvaux)

"The Rod" (1973, Brigid Marlin)

I, DANNY

The Secrets of Abraham Lincoln's Watch

Jim 'Motorhead' Sherwood R.I.P.

Playing the Blame Game

EXTRACT: Despite the endless succession of ‘rescue packages’ and ‘make or break’ summits, there is still no sign of a resolution to the euro zone crisis. Quite the opposite. Though it would be mistaken to think that a catastrophic break-up of the euro is inevitable, it is equally true that the momentum remains towards malfunction. If so, it is beyond doubt that such an occurrence would trigger an economic slump or depression at least on the scale of the 1930s. We are confronted by the possibility that the world capitalist-imperialist system could descend into general chaos.

The warnings are all there. On December 9 the Moody’s rating agency downgraded France’s three major banks (BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole) on the basis that liquidity and funding conditions had “deteriorated significantly” due to a “continued lack of investor appetite for bank debt”. Then, perhaps more seriously, a week later it downgraded Belgium’s credit rating by two notches, citing “sustained deterioration” in funding conditions for euro zone countries with relatively high levels of public debt - plus the economic woes associated with the dismantling of the troubled Franco-Belgium banking group, Dexia.

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