Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a café gourmand in Le Train Bleu, one of the city’s grandest venues. The brasserie above the Gare de Lyon is a mythical...
I couldn’t sleep last Saturday night due to anxiety caused by rewinding various lowlights of my long life that hit me like a brick, and I lay in bed and watched the hours go by...
The hidden art worth millions could change our perception of museums. Recently, I suggested to one of my daughters we visit our local art gallery. It is a contemporary space in a...
How the French take-over changed England profoundly. When Messrs Sellar and Yeatman produced their classic satire of the history that could be remembered from schooldays, they...
I had a good conversation Saturday with a college student named Emily, a rare pleasure for an old man like me. Most of my social life is spent with geriatrics eager to talk about...
It surprises me, a man of pen and paper, that Twitter requires regular maintenance and without the attention of veteran software engineers could easily crash, leaving millions of...
I decided not to spend $700 for a seat at Music Man on Broadway though I love the musical and know most of 'Ya Got Trouble' by heart and sometimes 'Gary, Indiana' comes...
A new book explains how, where and why golf took off in England in the late 19th century. Not many books on sport are written about who came second, but that is what this one is...
Frog morphology crops up a lot in our descriptions of nature. Babington’s orache (please read on) has frog’s head seeds, toadflax flowers are said to resemble the gape of a toad....
I’m thinking I should get to work on a museum of the era before the internet and cellphones and streaming music, so that people under 40 know what it was like to talk on a phone...