In earlier parts of my story I described in general terms why and how I started educating myself about sailing and the main technical things to look out for in a yacht’s design and specification. [more…]
Together with Germans and Greeks, Italians have long been the most stubborn and steadfast of Europeans in their love of cash. For years, they have resisted cards and digital payments and viewed with deep suspicion [more…]
If history tells us anything, it is that things always have the potential to get worse, and it’s already looking as though 2020 has done just that by inflicting 2021 upon us, not as a [more…]
In the final moments of the classic film Casablanca, at the airport, Rick, an American refugee, and sympathizer of the underground resistance to the Nazi movement, has just shot and killed Major Strasser of the [more…]
The huge economic harm caused by Covid-19 is seen and experienced clearly and directly on a daily basis. Less obvious is the damage wrought in every welfare-driven democracy whose government finds itself in the dual-role [more…]
China is one single indivisible territory containing one single indivisible people. It is the most populous nation on earth, the world’s second-biggest economy and has a longer continuous history than any other country – three [more…]
ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth, The news of thy success; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or [more…]
Monday Morning all. Well, it’s AstraZeneca day at last. The rollout started this morning and fittingly the first person to vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca developed vaccine was 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, in an Oxford [more…]
I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]
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