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My clash with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis

by Ben Habib | Jul 23, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Guest Essay

This article was originally published in October 2019. Saying I favour a no-deal Brexit in order to buy property cheaply after a resulting crash was wrong – and illogical. Newsnight is a programme I have watched for years, with a great deal of respect for the quality...

Undercover in Berlin

by Undercover Investor | Jul 18, 2023 | The Fund Manager

A friend of mine was bemoaning his recent travel experience in Berlin, apparently one of his favourite European Cities. He had not been for several years and was drawn to a conference in the City. He knew the old Teigel Airport well, and assumed, unwittingly it now...

Arriving by river

by Martin Hole | Jul 17, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Farmer

Originally published February 2021. Messing about in boats, you come across all kinds of creatures – but it’s not the wild ones that chew your ear off. Beavers do extraordinary things. While paddling canoes down the River Tay this summer, a local naturalist in our...

Wild things, I think I love you

by Martin Hole | Jul 17, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Farmer

Originally published June 2021. Our farms can be both wildlife-friendly and efficiently productive. Nirmal Purja, on completing his unique winter climb to the summit of K2, reflected that “Mother Nature always has bigger things to say”. The roar of the wind on that...

Regulating professions

by Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray | Jul 17, 2023 | The Analyst, zOurWriters2

The President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has written to Dame Janet Pareskeva, OBE, the Head of the Institution’s Standards and Regulation Board and in effect required her resignation. This creates a new situation in the regulation of professions...