I was sorry to hear that former US president and Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carterhad broken his hip last month. I was not sorry to hear that the incident had ruined his planned turkey hunt in his home state of Georgia. I - like the lion's share of the western world - have a visceral…
Playing the residency card
On a recent bus tour of Barcelona, the recorded commentary declared the 'immortal' words of exiled Catalonian President Josep Tarradellas on his return in 1977: 'Citizens of Catalonia, I am here'. This immediately conjured in my mind the immortal line from the BBC's Goon Show: 'Everybody's got to be somewhere.' Great philosophy it aint, but…
For tax advisor and country
There is a framed football shirt hanging on my son's wall. It is half blue, half white - the blue half sporting the insignia of the Israel Football Association and the white half the Three Lions of England. Scrawled in indelible marker across the English half is the inscription "Good Luck, Bobby Charlton" ( for the benefit…
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