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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 lamented New Times Magazine in 1977, on assignment from my editor, John Lombardi. I’ve never written about how I got...
Why common sense is often the best response . The writer Mark Twain wrote almost 50 books and yet is almost certainly better known for his aphorisms. The pithy one liners...
It seems that another item can now be added to the long list of things that are getting more expensive: football clubs. The bids coming in to buy Manchester United, reportedly in...
Another day, another set of hysterical headlines about energy company profits. This time Centrica plc, the £30bn owner of British Gas, has achieved record yet relatively...
And the UK needs to become a real player This was a disappointing week for the embryonic British space industry when the first ever launch from the UK ended up with a big splash...
Why it’s so hard to run a sustainable innovation-focused restaurant For over a decade, Noma in Copenhagen has been one of the standard bearers of the high-end culinary world....
With Russian troops digging trenches to prepare for an expected winter standoff, it would be easy to conclude that fighting will slow in Ukraine until after the ground thaws in...
Mainstream scientists, doctors, parents speak out about harms of Covid-19 vaccines. Just one day after she got a Covid-19 booster shot, Regan Lewis, a 20-year-old nursing...
But how can we help them make good on their ambitions? Young and old people have different opinions and tastes on everything from fashion to politics. That might sound truistic,...
Albania has a population of 2.8 million people, according to data published at the start of 2021. Since the fall of communism in 1991 nearly 40% of Albania’s population has left...