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| The Scapegoat by Holman Hunt |
On the Day of Atonement, a goat would have its horns wrapped with a red cloth – representing the sins of the community – and be driven off.
Hunt started painting on the shore of the Dead Sea, and continued it in his studio in London. It was completed in 1856 and exhibited at the Royal Academy, framed with the quotations "Surely he hath borne our Griefs and carried our Sorrows; Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of GOD and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:4) and "And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited." (Leviticus 16:22)
Art dealer, Ernest Gambart, remarked: "I wanted a nice religious picture and he painted me a great goat."
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| Kwasi Kwarteng, Chancellor of the Exchequer for 38 days |
3 comments:
What a sorry mess. It is not actually as if the policy idea is stupid. It is well known that lower compnay taxation attracts investment. It is well known that punitively high personal taxation discourages and eventually brings in less money. But these are not the times to be saying these things. Or if they are, you have to have a plan to get through and to stick to your guns. Often just sticking to your guns is enough but you have to large balls made of steel.
The blob, of course, is still outraged by the Great Orange Donald and by Brexit. The blob thinks it has won because CNN and BBC. Well, did anyone see the street interviews about the Van Gogh vandalism. Some of those folk would happily see those idiot kids thrashed within an inch of their stupid, vandal lives.
The Finnish radioactive waste facility is a good yarn. It's v deep in very old, dense rock. A chap on the project opined: “When the next ice age comes there will be two or three kilometres of ice on top of us and everything in Finland, Sweden and Estonia — in all northern Europe — will be demolished,” he said. “There won’t be anything left there for people to see. We don’t need to worry about that now.” Has anyone told Greta?
Truss out next week, Sunak in. The Tories finished for good. Financial crisis now inevitable.
Andrew Neil writes tonight: "That is Truss's main legacy. She has discovered the hard way that radical reform in Government is a lot harder than writing a pamphlet for the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs. She failed to prepare the ground, do the necessary homework to make her reforms convincing or take time to argue her case and carry the public with her."
And that's that, mr mike.
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