"The biggest difference between France and the US and UK remains the pursuit of sensual pleasure, a thing the "Anglo-Saxon business model" seems to have foolishly ignored. The US Constitution makes formalistic reference to the "pursuit of happiness" but it is the French nation that concentrates on pursuing pleasure and the savoring of it. They …
If Jesus was the Son of God and the all-knowing God created Heaven and the Earth, choosing man above all animals on the Earth, why did he say nothing about DNA, dinosaurs, gravity, the fact that the earth revolves around the Sun and a thousand other things. He could have saved 2000 years of hard …
Last night I stood on the magnificent staircase that leads to the great hall of Christ Church, Oxford, and listened to the Oxford Cathedral choir sing The Lamentations of Jeremiah, by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), a moody, reflective and haunting piece of music that seems wholly in keeping with Cardinal Wolsey’s wonderful Renaissance building. If you …
“You can’t expect a grown man to wear the same coat as he wore as a child”.
My son works for a Japanese bank in London. Some while ago, the manager of a smaller regional bank in Japan was persuaded to assist what turned out to be a mafia operation, money laundering and so on. He tried to get out of it, but he and his senior managers were threatened with their …
