Over the years Jane Austen’s most popular novel Pride and Prejudice has suffered greatly in the hands of period costume dramas made for TV and equally forgettable movie versions devoid of the humour and astute anthropological observations that the author intended. It was I suppose only a matter of time before someone was eventually going [...]
One of my personal objectives while away skiing was to get a respite from the news media’s fear peddling rubbish which is filling the void since the demise of the USSR, but as could be expected I was unable to escape entirely as footage of British soldiers in Iraq on an Italian news bulletin burst [...]
We’re not long back from our short skiing holiday in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Thankfully still feeling the health after-effects that several days of intense exercise and fresh air bring to a jaded city dweller trapped in the winter grey of London. Sadly the skiing conditions were not ideal as it hadn’t snowed since 28/1 so [...]
“The Fact that our economical models at The Fed, the best in the world, have been wrong for fourteen straight quarters, does not mean they will not be right in the fifteenth quarter.”
It was with a certain amount of dismay that I learned of the news that former US Central Bank chief Alan Greenspan is [...]
Well the anti-race/anti-religious hate bill proposed by the government has been been resoundingly defeated in the houses of parliament adding yet another scar on the pitted hide of the prime minister’s political career and the whole country breaths a collective sigh of relief. This still leaves the question though, why did they want this daft [...]
