The Scorporo System

Is the scorporo system used for voting, birth control or to eliminate enemies in the Mafia?

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This and That

When a country has an elite school it is always described as the Eton of (insert country). In the FTWeekend today Aitchison College is “Pakistan’s answer to Eton”. Is there a Harrow of Pakistan, or anywhere else? But I digress.

EU Rules OK

Two years ago I was on Malta, population about 500,000, and more recently Estonia, population 1.3 million.

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Lunch with M

You may remember General Raymond E Lee from a recent post: the General’s Moustache. Well I have now got his London Journal which consists of his letters to his wife (and young daughter) living in America while he was serving as Military Attaché in London, 1940-1941.

Charlton Heston

This was made in 1954, shot on location in Machu Picchu, stars Charlton Heston and bears more than a passing resemblance to Raiders of the Lost Ark, made about quarter of a century later.

A Sea-change

There has been a sea-change in my lifetime, by which I mean a significant change that has happened gradually.