The day that the Hamas fighters broke out was a Saturday, and unusually I had a call with a client in my office on some matter that seemed pressing at the time. He’s a long standing client but not one that I’d really spoken to about anything other than business before. But it was the
After three decades of devotion to Handel’s oratorio Saul—sparked by a chance library discovery—I finally made the pilgrimage to Glyndebourne. Despite eye-watering ticket prices, this performance proved worth every penny.
Should we take a long-term view of our altruistic behaviour? It sounds logical that we should. But really a whole book on the subject makes me doubt it.
I wrote this at the time but didn’t publish it. I have just rediscovered it. You don’t get historic events along very often, and even more rarely do you get to watch them roll out in realtime on the television while being able to discuss them with just about anyone else on the planet.
When I was a teenager, the ticketing arrangement at the local cinema with that you bought a ticket at the box office and this gave you admittance to the cinema and any of the three screens available for as long as you wished. It was quite normal to stay and watch more than one film.
I woke up to the news the South Korea’s population has fallen for the first time in its history. Wars and famines have been just as prevalent in the country’s history as anywhere else, but it turns out that demographics is the thing that really counts. An ageing population who choose to avoid having too