The following are, in my opinion, the characteristics of the Epicurean lady or a gentleman. I make absolutely no apology for what some might see as old-fashioned ideas – they are simply what I would look for in a wife, a lifelong friend, or a companion. Gender is immaterial. (not in any particular order …
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Thousands of people around the world joined a global climate change protest yesterday, with pupils walking out of schools and workers downing tools to demand action. The British demonstrators numbered about 100,000. The British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson predictably said “every child” should be in school. “They should be learning, they shouldn’t be bunking off and …
Russia has announced that chess is to become a compulsory subject in schools. The Minster of Education and Science is quoted as saying, “Children playing chess have better academic performances. Engagement with chess helps them with mental development”. As someone who never learned chess I think this is an enlightened idea. It teaches kids to think …
The CEO of General Motors takes home (I avoid the word “earns”) about $22 million a year in compensation (don’t you just love the American use of the word, “compensation”?). He had been laying off thousands of employees who, surprise, surprise, have had enough and are now on strike, nearly 50,000 of them. They are …
When Cordelia Mellon Scaife was born in 1928 she was the world’s “richest baby”. Her grand-uncle, the industrialist-turned-U.S. treasury secretary Andrew Mellon, spent his lifetime squeezing workers and fighting to cut rich people’s taxes. But Mellon’s impact on American life didn’t end with his 1937 death. His heir Richard Mellon Scaife — Cordelia’s brother — …
