The last bastion of quiet time for the busy executive is about to fall. Inmarsat, Britain’s satellite operating champion, has announced plans to connect European airline passengers to the internet by the end of 2016, with British Airways set to be the first airline to sign up to the new service. Wi-Fi access will be …
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A Tea Party candidate running for office in Oklahoma has endorsed the Old Testament injunction that gay people should be stoned to death. Scott Esk, who is standing for election to Oklahoma’s House of Representatives, made the comments in a series of Facebook posts last year. Responding to Pope Francis’s rhetorical question “Who am I …
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear. (Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936), Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet). Epicurus was an intelligent man. He would have appreciated Herr Kraus’s clever aphorism, …
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The third and last excerpt from McCall Smith’s article on what he would do if he ruled the world: I’m afraid that art colleges face some scrutiny. It is difficult for young artists to get training in drawing and painting, because these subjects have been treated with derision by those on favour of conceptual art. …
Below is a second set of comments from the writer, Alexander McCall Smith’s, in his funny article in the June 2015 edition of “Prospect” magazine, the British magazine designed for those who think and who have a sense of humour, under the title “If I ruled the World”. Teachers too would have their authority returned …
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