Cheltenham Day 1 – the day of hope!

The first day of the Cheltenham Festival.  The Day of Hope! You’ve lost no money at all and there is everything to play for with plenty of time to add to wins or recoup losses (or indeed to plunge further and further down a slippery losing hill to financial oblivion – but this is the…

Horse meat, Romania, vultures, Oscar Whisky, Owen Paterson and your taxes – all connected.

The connectedness of the world intrigues me.  I like making connections between facts, people, events, ideas. I’m getting a bit tired of hearing about the ‘horse meat crisis’ (eg here, here, here, here, here) only because it certainly isn’t a crisis when safe delicious horse meat is incorporated alongside safe delicious cow meat in our…