Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every British ship through the storm that followed. He was [more…]
Some are claiming that many of these are criminals freed by Morocco & bused to the border as a deliberate act. (This same tactic was used by Central and South American regimes to dump their gangs in [more…]
Peruvian strongman Oscar Benavides once famously said “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law.” Once, such a thing might have provided a succinct summary of the practice of privilege in its literal sense [more…]
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. Hot again this morning when I went out, but I’m delighted to see it’s not going to only be for the one day, and it might even rain a [more…]
After leaving the Manouche, I stayed in London for about a year, putting some money together, and surprised myself by getting married to a Colombian lady. While in London, Beudjeu and I still wrote to [more…]
Ernesto sang a beautiful haunting rhumba from his native Brazil, and then Chocote took the guitar to accompany Memé’s singing. Chocote’s big labourer’s fingers were transformed as they danced nimbly around the chords, his other [more…]
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It is a momentous day in the Street today. It’s the last day of Legohead’s premiership and the first day of Mascara Man, my seventh PM and probably not [more…]
Thursday 25th June – At sea Do you ever get the feeling you have done something wrong and you actually haven’t? Well, the information to put the clocks forward to European time went out yesterday, [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…]
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