Essays in Idleness

We are told, in a series currently being aired on BBC Two (“Queen Victoria’s Children”) & by a book flaunted on their website (Jane Ridley, A Life of Edward VII) that the home life of Victoria, Albert, et famille, was not an embodiment of perfect bliss; that paintings & photographs projecting “an image of a [...]

As our first mortification for anno 2013, we have been reading annual outlook articles in the financial media. The consensus appears to be that by this time next year our economic situation will be worse, better, or about the same. In particular, different world regions may enjoy different rates of growth or decline, by the [...]