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“Cricket is baseball for people with brains”, the contrarian cricket enthusiast, Piers Morgan, told viewers and listeners to the US Cricket Daily, the world's first and only podcast dedicated to America's Major League Cricket competition. The tournament in its second season took place over three...
By the end of 2024, around 1.5 billion people will have headed to the polls to vote at elections across 50 different countries. But, arguably, the most important is to come. The...
Family offices and institutional investors are programmed to ignore cold emails. And it’s not because they’re mean or don’t like your deal. It’s because they can’t...
The annual announcement of the Booker Prize Longlist is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar for readers of new fiction in English. The remit of the Booker is now so...
I ran this story in my column on Substack just over three years ago, and I am running it again so new subscribers will have a chance to read it. It’s a piece I wrote for the late...
The best thing about entrepreneurship is you’ve got no boss. The worst thing about entrepreneurship is you’ve got no boss. Boss is a terrible word. Mentor is a better word, but...
Trump's signature policy would frighten Americans without improving the immigration situation. “The crops are all in and the peaches are rotten/ The oranges piled in their...
I couldn’t possibly write an article about my real estate education without special mention of my father, who was educating me before I even was aware of it. Michael Marx may...
You could say I've lived an interesting life, and come to think of it, I have. I wrote this story for the Village Voice back in 2016, when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
UBS’s acquisition of Credit Suisse was consummated just over a year ago; it has been touted as the transaction of the decade, if not the century, and for obvious reason; for CHF3 billion