Winter in Madrid

CJ Sansom is an author who has found his metier writing historical whodunnit mysteries set in Tudor England with Shardlake as his hunchback lawyer hero. Maybe he chose a lawyer as before he became a full time author he practised as a solicitor.

The Jacobite Peerage

The Jacobite peerages are the seventh division of the peerage – if you don’t know about the other six, read yesterday’s post.

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Lords-and-ladies

Like rather an unimaginative schoolmaster I am going to start with a bit of revision.

The Green Team

The Conservative Party has hit electoral pay dirt by delaying the transition to electric cars and the replacement of gas boilers.

Phoenix

The stock market hasn’t done much recently, so probably we are in for a move soon and I am of the opinion that it will be upwards. The FTSE 250 is 10.5% below where it was in 2018.

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A Modest Proposal

Low Traffic Zones, Clean Air Neighbourhoods, take your pick, are the new favourites in my borough.

What Hoe!

I wonder if I should have bought a property in Chelsea when I started working in London? With a mortgage I expect I could but I am glad I didn’t.