Schengen Matters

When I’m at home I am not in Schengen but Schengen can be in me – a riesling from Luxembourg, where the treaty was signed in 1985.

On the Road

In June 2017 I bought Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust. Yesterday I sold out.

Palmy Days

Palmy Days is an American musical comedy, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, released in 1931.

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Six of the Best

Do you remember Jimmy Edwards in Whack-O! Oh dear, it ran on BBC TV 1956 – 1960 and again 1971/72. I remember its second outing.

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Bet365

Today I address readers who cannot invest because they have no savings.

Country Risk

A few years ago an FT columnist suggested investing in Russian funds.

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Handicapped

One of my relations used to call me a purple-faced spastic when I was stupid or displeased him; usually the former. He wasn’t woke.

A Titan

JK Galbraith’s foreword to the British edition of this novel is timeless. He wrote it in 1990 and it is as relevant now as it was thirty-two years ago; his style is faultless; not often a trait of an economist.