Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Most aphorisms are self-evident, such as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and the one about glass houses and throwing stones and the mice playing when the cat is away and “As you sow, so shall you harvest” and as I get older, the ones about living in the moment and seizing the day and...
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...
A book review. “Those who fail to study the intellectual debates of the past are condemned to repeat them,” is a variation on Santayana’s famous dictum particularly applicable to...
Here in the northern latitudes, it appears we’ve come to the end of the golden October days and soon grey November will descend and then some snow flurries, followed by an Arctic...
A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned US grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a...
I look at the Great Milky WayWhile inhaling the autumn bouquetAt eventideAnd am mystifiedAnd simply don’t know what to say. I love this September chill in the air. I love...
She told me out of the blue that she adores me. I was there, in a chair, listening; she was standing by the grandfather clock. She didn’t sing it, but she said it clearly. This...
What if it does and they do? Sea levels are rising as the polar ice caps melt and now it’s clear why Republicans are in favour of global warming, it’s a form of gerrymandering....