These are the times of high levels of immigration and low levels of tolerance. They are the times that inherited the straight-jacket rhetoric of the politically correct. They are times of neutered political debate due to reverence to populistic positions and knee-jerk reactions. Somehow you...

J’accuse has been severely handicapped by an obtuse former monopoly and its incompetent set of technicians (barring a certain Frederic who should be awarded a medal of honour for his attempts at providing a normal service from within a company of idiots). Anyways, this has meant that I...

“Otium cum dignitate”, that is how Cicero advised the honest person to live. The word “otium” is not really translatable and is often wrongly interpreted as the “dolcefarniente” of Mediterranean fame. Rather than a life of idleness, Cicero (I am constantly...

I watched a great film yesterday – I Laureati – a Leonardo Pieraccioni movie about life in Florence for four men who still have not managed to graduate from university. You cannot but laugh at the antics of Rocco, Leonardo and co. as they philosophise on anything from humour to...

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I had to pay a visit to my phone operator last week since my iPhone was playing up by deciding to go blank without giving prior notice. Since I was due to leave Luxembourg on a short holiday the urgency of having a working iPhone was all the greater.   The company’s offices are in the...

All eyes were on London this week as the leaders of the world’s countries who think they count most met to try to solve the globe’s economic and financial woes while protesters dressed in anything from polar bear suits to hooded tops wreaked the kind of senseless chaos that passes...