Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
I seldom invite friends to come to church with me and, after Sunday’s morning service that was so deeply moving, I don’t know why. If you knew a great bakery, you’d tell people. If you read a great book, you wouldn’t keep it a secret. But off I truck to the West Side of Manhattan and in the big...
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...
Or how we make connections with strangers. A male nurse did a blood draw on me the other day and as he tied the rubber strip around my upper arm, I said, “I’ve had this done...
We’ve been sort of mesmerized by the Winter Olympics and dangerously thin athletes speedskating, one hand behind the back, taking the turns semi-horizontally, and others flying...
Our Proprietor’s somewhat unusual choice. Your choice of hero can reveal a lot, I reckon. Ronnie Reagan revered the ‘Duke’, John Wayne, and his canon depicting the lone cowboy...