Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s bench. Boyishly, I could seldom resist asking him how that role, “Chair of the bench”, was going. An anecdote told in the...
Since the 1619 Project’s release, proponents of free markets have rightly pushed back on the claim that American capitalism is irrevocably linked to racism and slavery. In a...
In homage to my ancestor David Powell, I rode a train across Kansas heading for Colorado, his goal in 1859 when he left Martha Ann and the children behind in Missouri and headed...
While there is evidence that the wives of Musselburgh fishermen played in a golf competition in 1811, the first ladies’ golf club was formed at St Andrews in 1867, where they...
The end of the Middle Ages? The Battle of Bosworth Field, on Saturday, 22 August 1485, has often been taken as marking not only the end of the Wars of the Roses but also the...
I took a ferry out of New London to the far end of Long Island, the end that is not Brooklyn, this week, which is a big deal for a Midwesterner, the ocean breeze, the big bass...
“But what’s it about?” The common question that haunts many writers is one where their audience wants an incredibly complex creation like a novel reduced to a few – sometimes...
After 39 years working as a journalist, and 17 years as the head of Sky News, John Ryley retired in May. In a series of articles for The Property Chronicle he reflects on how the...
Michael Cimino’s magisterial, but flawed, Vietnam War epic was released into theatres only three years after Operation Frequent Wind, the chaotic Saigon airlift that sealed the...
I had lunch last week with a woman who is two months away from motherhood and it was sweet to watch her caressing the basketball under her blouse, patting it, lifting it...