The FTWeekend is my bible. The daily version has too much “noise” and I find it easier to identify trends with only a weekly fix. Here is what caught my attention yesterday morning.
Month: January 2018
Reader’s Digest
Whacky Wodehouse
The Ghastly Affair
Rosherville Gardens was a seventeen acre site on the Thames not far from Gravesend in Kent. It opened in 1837 to provide a day out for Londoners. At first it consisted of pleasure gardens adorned with statues, follies and more than 8,000 specimen trees. Visitors came by paddle-steamer and new attractions were added including bands,… Continue reading The Ghastly Affair
Tax Matters
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes. (Wiki) In the US in 2015 it was 24th April. Not so good in the UK: 3rd June in 2016. The Adam Smith Institute does the sums in the… Continue reading Tax Matters
George Sims
This morning, if it’s morning for you – I notice that blog readers do it in the morning. I do because I read blogs too and I read them in the morning. A lot of bloggers have a “blog roll” on their website with the blogs they read. I don’t, mostly because I don’t have… Continue reading George Sims
Matinee Idle
Breaking the Rules
ATM
I make no apology for contradicting myself. If you are a newish reader you won’t even know but the fact of the matter is that I wouldn’t see Sully (about the ‘plane ditching in the Hudson River), although now I wish I had. I wouldn’t see it because I knew the story. I did see… Continue reading ATM