Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s bench. Boyishly, I could seldom resist asking him how that role, “Chair of the bench”, was going. An anecdote told in the...
An athlete pretending to bite her medal, but, really, not wanting to damage her perfect teeth by the looks of things.
The debate was a joke, a cruel joke. Trump was the drunk in the corner saloon, sailing on vodka martinis, and Biden was a serious man attempting to frame an argument in response...
On France’s National Day, after an extensive tour of France, the energy of the Olympic Flame finally touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of Parisians.
Last month, eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer gave a commencement address to graduating students at Dartmouth University. During this speech, he used “tennis...
A review into how the BBC should be funded has been launched by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, as new action is taken to reduce the impact on licence fee payers in these hard up...
I spent 12 hours in a New York ER last Saturday and upon discharge was given ten pages of test results and now I have more information about myself than I know what to do with. I...
What does it tell you when two of the world’s most cogent cinema essayists decide to put out books on TV? Mostly, it tells you that there hasn’t been much new cinema to talk...
Congestion pricing comes to Manhattan in June, a system of tolls to reduce daytime traffic on streets that have become sluggish so they’ll start moving again and not turn into...
"Hi, Big Ed. Dog here, how are you?” “Ah, Le Chien, yes, all good, thank you. Everything okay your end? How’s trade?” “Fine, fine… -ish. Unwise to get me started, as ever....