He started working life down a pit age six, ran half the coalfield by his thirties, and built an entire harbour to spite his rivals. They called him the King of the Coal Trade, and [more…]
The sequence began in 2017, when Kushner was appointed as Trump’s special adviser for the Middle East. His method was geo-economics: financial incentives and commercial integration as a substitute for political solutions. He called forty [more…]
Monday Good morning, my happy readers, it looks like the warm weather is back. It was very nice this weekend. If the truth be told, it was a bit warm for your cat reporter. There [more…]
Sally looked at her phone when she heard knocking on the door, it was 10:45. She pulled a dressing gown on and went to see who it was. A smiling Jane Goodley was standing there, [more…]
Sunday 14th June – At sea, off southern Portugal and into the Mediterranean When your intrepid diarist woke, it was still dark, but a tap on my iPad screen revealed it was 06:45. Then I [more…]
Once we were all safely checked into the motel it was time to get ready for the evening’s activities. A digression here on the two main destinations: Port Stephens is about 150 miles north of [more…]
London is still our capital with a wealth of artistic and architectural gems to explore so I like to visit a few times a year. So.. Mr A and I went to town on the [more…]
The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
At 21 he was building the locomotives for Brunel’s Great Western Railway. Then he took Brunel’s Great Eastern and used it to lay the first lasting telegraph cable across the Atlantic. This is the man [more…]
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