Economics
Going for Gold – Part 1
Over the last 6 months I’ve taken an interest in buying gold and silver, for reasons which I will deal with in a separate article. Much research has been undertaken and I have gained some basic [more…]
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18th Century
Book review: The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer. Publisher The Bodley Head This is the latest in a series of Time Traveller’s Guides by Historian Ian Mortimer and his enthusiasm for his subject [more…]
Business
Growth? Not in this Budget
We have just endured yet another March Budget in which the Chancellor sets out his strategy for balancing the nation’s expenditure plans with its available resources, principally from taxation. They are, of course, his spending [more…]
20th Century
The ‘Crockford’s Clerical’ Murder
On Sunday 6 December 1987, the Reverend Doctor Canon Gareth Vaughan Bennett returned home after spending a most agreeable weekend with friends in Cambridge. On the way he had given a colleague a lift home, [more…]
Arts
Rough Gardening In A Pandemic. This Seasons Plan
There always has to be a plan. Whether or not it’s a plan that will be carried through, that’s another matter, but plan this season there is. A large part of it is based on [more…]
America
Film Review : Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s — loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name — was a showcase for Audrey Hepburn in her acting prime. (Ironically, Capote championed giving the [more…]
Authoritarianism
Re-reading 1984
from Imgflip Meme Generator I first read George Orwell’s 1984 sometime around 1990. I recalled it as a bleak science fiction story about one man, Winston Smith, who attempts to rebel against a particularly evil [more…]
Arts
Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 3
Il jouait du piano debout C’est peut-être un détail pour vous Mais pour moi, ça veut dire beaucoup Ça veut dire qu’il était libre Heureux d’être là malgré tout Il jouait du piano debout Il [more…]
America
Always Worth Saying’s Oprah Meets Meghan Review
Oprah Meets Meghan and Harry 7th March 2021 Contributors: Oprah Gail Winfrey (Media billionaire) Racheal Meghan Markle (Actress) Harry Wales (Retired Army officer) Venue: Montecito, Near Santa Barbara, California. Lights. A bleaching brightness covers the [more…]