Samuel Pepys would have been happy. His diary reveals that, even during the worst of the Great Plague in 1665-66, and despite the clear risks to his health, he kept up his visits to London’s pubs, albeit less frequently. Fast-forward to 2020, a trip to
Simeon Stylites the Elder knew a thing or two about social distancing. In the fifth century, he set up home on a wicker platform at the top of a Syrian pillar, and thus the saint lived out his remaining 37 years. Food was delivered by
Most financial traders don’t last in the job five years, and little wonder, given the stress of following every pitch and heave of the market. They’ve had it even worse in recent weeks. First, lockdown precipitates a crash on markets. Then leading governments unleash a fiscal
China's first president, Sun Yatsen, was (he claimed) born in Hawaii, as, of course, was Donald Trump's predecessor. These days, however, Pacific islands are helping to drive the two countries ever further apart, as recent days have shown. Last week, it was the US payrolls report
At 8 o’clock last Thursday, the UK ‘Clapped for Carers’ for possibly the last time. The weekly applause started as a way of acknowledging the sacrifices made by front-line workers. But it has come to mean more than that. It has reconnected us with our neighbours,
In 1988, Durham Chess Club saw two teenagers compete for the Championship title. The match saw Michael Ayton defeat his opponent – a young Dominic Cummings. It’s unsurprising that Cummings, who masterminded the Vote Leave and 2019 General Election campaigns, is a chess player. He has
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion Thus did Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describe the experience of sailing into ‘the doldrums’, or ‘equatorial calms’, in which different trade winds meet, often leaving ships unable to make progress. Everyone knows the
Nothing shows you up like a crisis. In the early days and weeks of the virus outbreak, the majority of governments worldwide enjoyed a surge of popular support, as the sense of needing to rally behind leaders benefited incumbent politicians. The UK government became the most
“Baseball,” said Leo ‘The Lip’ Durocher, one of the greatest managers in the history of the game, “is like church. Many attend, but few understand.” These days, however, few even attend. Taiwan’s government, which has done an exceptional job of suppressing the spread of the virus,
Lockdown's multiple social implications continued to be felt in earnest last week. On Thursday, Turks should have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Turkey's parliament. The very same day, the English should have been celebrating both the birth of William Shakespeare and
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