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Our Leader in Wonderland   The time has come the Walrus said To talk of many things Of BREXIT and Betrayal and One hundred other things How referenda perish and our peoples voices pass Well thank you dear Theresa For the stiletto up the arse.   For chaining us to Europe Wher

Trivia Question – What occurs (on average) 84 x week? That’s the number of men who commit suicide and the rate for men is several x that of women. This and other data are the subject of a talk given by Julian Smith at London Lunchtimers at The Freemasons’ Arms in Lon

It’s Been 20 Years 3Cs 100th meeting with 5 speakers hosted by international law firm Taylor Wessing. 3Cs Community grew out of Investors in Industry (3i) formerly known as Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation providing finance for management buy outs in the 1980s. Now

BREXIT means BREXIT The most crucial issue that has faced this country for decades. Surprise referendum result compounded by PM David Cameron’s lack of any preparation as that was defeatist. He does the honourable thing and resigns. David Davis is chosen to lead the team and hun

Tiong Hoa Hotel We have a month to wait for the boat with the Land Rover to reach Singapore, so try to keep ourselves amused. Albert Street famous for its restaurants is a few minutes walk away and we end up with a favourite one. Here a young waitress usually serves us, practising her

Temples We check in to the hotel and the steamer to Ceylon sails away. This part of India has some fantastic temples and Mahabalipuram is a name that lingers. For three days, we visit several catching a couple of festivals. One has a huge procession going slowly though the main street

West Pakistan Our entry into West Pakistan is via the spectacular Khyber Pass and our first stop is Peshawar. The drive itself is uneventful, with Anussorn asleep in the back having caught some sort of lurgi, a clear sky, other vehicles for company and no drama, so what many would con

The Land of Theatre So Kim Jong-Un apparently wants to move North Korea to the real world and a summit is planned for June in Singapore. A real achievement for Trump diplomacy and proof of one of Einstein’s (misattributed) sayings “Insanity is doing the same thing over and

Garmsar Back to Gol-e-Sara campsite and it’s off east again to Meshed in the north-east of Iran, and like Turkey, Iran drives on the right. The road near Teheran is good but further away from the capital, parts of it are just dirt road where the wheels of thousands of heavy vehi