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...
My name is Nick French and I am a collector. And, yes, it can become an addiction. I used to shop because I enjoyed shopping and often the pleasure came not from the item bought...
When Design Engine Architects redeveloped the new urban campus for Oxford Brookes University, the hoardings screening the construction site were cleverly branded by the marketing...
It’s official, the proprietor’s palate has become jaded and faded. I have succeeded where countless glasses from the Stowells of Chelsea wine-box have failed. How so? Well,...
Joe Biden came to Manhattan for a couple fundraisers last week, which gave the NYPD a fine excuse to close off as many streets as humanly possible, which is why some people go...
Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed as an iconoclastic satire of 1980s political and popular culture. Its grotesque puppet caricatures became so...
You only live once and once is enough if you do it right. I told myself this the other morning as I decided to have a piece of toast with orange marmalade because when I warmed...
Twelve years after the Leveson inquiry and the closure of News of the World, the British press are having a reckoning on Netflix. Recent celebrity documentaries Beckham...
Questions of football finance are starting to be as fascinating as the game itself. This is because the amounts of money involved have grown to extraordinary, mouth-watering...
Music industry reports show that in recent years, sales of vinyl albums have grown dramatically. But when most of us can access digital sounds anytime, anywhere, why are...