Literary Lions You may not agree but I reckon the three greatest living British novelists are, in ascending order of age, Sebastian Faulks (69), William Boyd (70) and Julian Barnes (76).
King Freddie The new illegal immigrant Hotel is coming along well and should be ready to receive “guests” arriving in the summer dash across La Manche next year.
In the Channon’s Mouth In 1300 BC King Arzawa installed central heating in his palace at Beycesultan, Turkey.
England’s Green and Pleasant Land Who owns Britain? I mean the actual acres. Have a guess and you may be wrong – I was.
Wanna Make Moolah? It was more than forty years ago (1981) when I became an oil futures broker on the nascent International Petroleum Exchange.