Earlier this year, Richard “Tigger” Hoare died, sadly one of this year’s many Covid fatalities. His Times obituary can be found here. A highly capable banker of the old school, coming from a long-standing banking family who still own the family bank established in 1672, he was proud to state: “I have never minded challenging things,… Read more »
It was Thomas Jefferson who in 1813 compared the passing on of knowledge to one candle being lit from another. ”He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine, as he who lights his taper off mine receives light without darkening me.” It is a luminously expressed description of the way… Read more »
Last week Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee wrote about how Russian oligarchs and their money had been welcomed by the UK from the mid-1990’s onwards, with Britain’s “light touch … regulation” (where have we heard that before?). The UK’s rule of law and judicial system were seen as a particular draw. But, as the report… Read more »