Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Sometimes it feels that waiting for the capital market recovery is like waiting for Arsenal to win the League. Each of the last two seasons we have started with high hopes in our young side and gone on to score the most points in our Premier League history only to be pipped at the post by Man City...
The rule is “Only buy oysters on the half-shell in months with an R in them,” but I took some relatives to dinner Friday and shelled out fifty bucks for a dozen shells of not...
“Cricket is baseball for people with brains”, the contrarian cricket enthusiast, Piers Morgan, told viewers and listeners to the US Cricket Daily, the world's first and only...
On Saturday, 29 May 1660, the diarist John Evelyn wrote: “I stood in the Strand, and beheld it, and blessed God: and all this without one drop of blood, and by that very army...
I once owned a house on Goodrich Avenue in St. Paul, across the street from a house Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald rented in 1921 when Zelda gave birth to their daughter, Scottie,...
Family offices and institutional investors are programmed to ignore cold emails. And it’s not because they’re mean or don’t like your deal. It’s because they can’t...
The annual announcement of the Booker Prize Longlist is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar for readers of new fiction in English. The remit of the Booker is now so...
I swear I never thought the day would come when I would arrive for a summer weekend at a rural paradise and suddenly be in a panic that I may have left the charger for my hearing...
I ran this story in my column on Substack just over three years ago, and I am running it again so new subscribers will have a chance to read it. It’s a piece I wrote for the late...
I walked into the Baltimore airport at 7:15 Friday morning, checked a bag, and walked to the end of the endless Boarding line, which moved swiftly back and forth between the...