Summer’s here – or at least, in theory it is. It’s mid-August, school is out, and people are on holiday. Never mind that it’s only 15 degrees and we’ve seen more rain in the past few weeks than for the […]

Another year rides off into the sunset, and a new one dawns. But before it does, here are the highlights of my blogging year: January: Big Business makes big mistakes, including dead bodies in planes and the toy that turned […]

Let’s pick a country at random. How about Brazil? (Top row, second from the left.) What images come to mind? Sugarloaf Mountain? The long sandy beach of Copacabana? Ronnie Biggs? It it stable? Safe? Corrupt? Would you consider living there? Retiring […]