Recent Blogs.- AM I A STATISTICAL FREAK? June 3, 2019As I age and ache, that saying comes to mind that being an old (ish) man, even on a good day, feels not much different from being a young (ish) man except that young man is feeling rather unwell. But it’s the mind I want to focus on. We are supposed to become more conservative, […]
- OH MY AMERICA... May 27, 2019John Donne in his Elegy XIX, “On his Mistress Going to Bed”, written in 1633, compares the excitement of the New-found-land of America with seducing his naked mistress: “licence these roving hands” he says.On Friday we went to the Chineke! Orchestra playing a programme of American music as part of the Brighton Festival. (Chineke! is […]
- NOBODY LIKES US May 20, 2019When our entry “Bigger than us” came last in The European Song Contest on Saturday with just 16 points I was not surprised. We’ve been placed in the bottom five out of twenty six entries, an astonishing nine times, since 2005. Either we are terrible musicians or we pick the wrong songs or we are […]
- THE RICH LIST ARE PISSED OFF May 13, 2019The front page of the Sunday Times this weekend predicted a ‘catastrophic’ emigration of the rich taking trillions away with them if “Corbygeddon” happened (the paper also published their 2019 “Rich List”). There are reasons why I’m sceptical about the benefits of Jeremy as Prime Minister but I don’t necessarily see slightly increasing taxation on […]
- BAD BLOOD OR BLOODY SILLY? May 6, 2019I’ve been reading “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies of a Silicon Valley Start-Up” about a company that promised to become enormous. Founded in 2003 it raised $900 million from funders,and at its peak in 2013 was valued at $10 billion yet in 2018 was worth nothing. Such things have happened before – the South Sea […]
- AM I A STATISTICAL FREAK? June 3, 2019