When I was a teenager, my biggest ambition in life wasn’t to do well in my education; or to marry and start a family. It was to learn to drive a car. The layout of my old school meant that the teachers’ car park was situated between the playground and the main cluster of school…
Do you know which international airport serves more world destinations than any other? It isn’t Dubai; it isn’t JFK; and it certainly isn’t London’s tired Heathrow. No, the airport serving the biggest number of global destinations is Amsterdam’s impressive Schiphol Airport – no less than 273 in total! If there ever comes a time when…
For the last two weeks, I’ve had to keep reminding myself that we’re still in November! At the time of writing, there is still more than a month to go before Christmas Day. So far we’ve had festive adverts on the television, Christmas songs played on in-store tannoy systems, shops decorated with tinsel and snow…
One of the things that always makes me cringe when I’m watching an international football match between England and Germany is the crass behaviour of many of the England fans. If they’re not singing ’10 German Bombers’, they’re making stupid references to the Nazis, or else claiming with great gusto on how “England won the…
After a stressful week, I came home last night wanting some light comedic relief. So I decided to watch one of my favourite episodes of the classic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series entitled ‘The Builders’. The plot revolves around Basil employing the services of a cowboy Irish builder called O’Reilly, whose men proceed to make a number…
The sound is lousy, but the policies are great.
Union Pacific. No, I’m not talking about Cecil B DeMille’s 1939 classic starring Barbara Stanwyck. I’m referring to yesterday’s declaration that Britain had signed its biggest trading agreement since Brexit. It was a glorious moment watching all the usual media and academic celebrities going into Twitter meltdown when the announcement came through that the United…
All great commercial advances begin with surges of investment that the simple in thought naïvely deride as “bubbles”, followed by “bust”. In 2022, after frenzied investing in the years prior, the “bust” finally came for cryptocurrencies. Such is the basis for John Tamny’s confident assertion in The Money Confusion that the future of money is at our…