Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
When Chip Carter spoke about his father, Jimmy, at a memorial service in Atlanta and told how, when his dad noticed the boy got a poor mark in Latin, Jimmy studied Latin so that he could teach his son, I recognized a standard of fatherhood a good deal higher than my own and I felt bad for a moment...
But why no Desert Island DVDs?, asks this writer We’ve all heard of Desert Island Discs and most of us have probably, in an idle moment or when trying hard to concentrate on...
Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s most serious serial sexual predators. Over several decades the television personality groomed and abused up to 1,000 boys and girls in TV studios...
Men my age are not riding high these days compared to back in the Renaissance or the 19th century, so I am taking a back seat and not getting fussed up. I appreciate new stuff...
In both the world wars, Britain was allied with France and Russia against Germany. Yet this pattern was of relatively recent origin and it represented a reversal of that which...
“If you remember the 60s, you weren’t really there”. This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and...
The world is treacherous, my darlings, and if some ambitious person were to interview everyone who ever knew you for 10 minutes or more and offered them anonymity, he could paint...
One of the 20th century’s greatest minds should be remembered with pride. Most readers of The Property Chronicle will know John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) as an economist whose...
I am alone in New York this week and I have double vision, so when I walk down the street, I pass identical twins who often are leading identical dogs and my loneliness feels...
Edward VII and the realignment of British foreign policy. In both the world wars, Britain was allied with France and Russia against Germany. Yet this pattern was of relatively...