When the tide goes out, you see who’s been swimming naked. Warren Buffett’s wry observation about risk-taking investors applies equally to...

At the moment of writing, our London masters (the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office) have just rejected McKeeva’s latest proposed bu...

Our local rulers have achieved three stunning victories this past fortnight. First, they have guaranteed that the mutual mistrust between ex...

(This is the eleventh in the series of travellers’ tales for my grandchildren)  If we’d known , we’d have slept in! As it was, we were sho...

Our local rulers’ much-publicised proposal to impose a tax on income generated by non-Caymanians may already have put Cayman onto a slippery...

Ah, the thrill of the sprints! But oh, the boredom of the national anthems! Surely even Americans are embarrassed with all the hype when the...

I signed a new Will the day before we flew to Norway last month. If the plane had gone down the Will probably wouldn’t have been enforceable...

Our granddaughters in Norway have received their annual English lesson, and this time they didn’t even have to leave home. Our son lives in ...

They used to call it “the seven-year itch”. After seven years of marriage, in the days when marriage was “till death do us part”, men were s...

(This is the tenth of my travellers’ tales for my grandchildren. Iraq, January 1965)  We had reached the street when the landlady called u...