Tesla Three-for-One stock split

Tesla, the electric vehicle giant completed a three-for-one stock split on Thursday, dropping share prices from nearly $900 to $302. Tesla’s latest three-for-one split means that stockholders will get two additional shares for each share that they owned. This is Tesla’s second stock split in two years, intended to attract a new and diverse investor…

Edinburgh Festival 2022

After two years absent, the 2022 Edinburgh Festival fringe is back, with newbies breaking through to stars testing their new tours. Fusing with musical comedy stand-up comedian and screenwriter, Jordan Gray said “ it’s bloody hard work being transgender”, takes on babies, boobies,  and bigots. It was 2016, and she was competing on The Voice…

Incredible views of Jupiter

The  James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the World’s largest and most powerful space telescope took infrared images of the Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, in July 2022. The images revealed auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”. Planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of…

Barristers to go on strike

Barristers in England and Wales have voted to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike from 5 September, next month. Until now, members have been striking on alternative weeks in a dispute with the government over pay, working conditions, and legal aid funding, The strike is expected to delay thousands of cases, leaving victims and the…

London Private Members Clubs

Behind Closed Doors is the result of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal. The ups and downs of London Clubland which grew to spread around the world, with its four hundred clubs, and how…

“Matter of Factly Intimate” Henry Kissinger

  The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, when it suite their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on regular basis. The two countries are bound together more closely than either is…

Politics of Oil

Petroleum has always been used by humans, from time immemorial as a waterproofing agent in Noah’s Ark, as a weapon during the Crusades, and as an adhesive for Neanderthals. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed into light, heat, and power. A Pipeline Runs Through it, looks at the social, economic, political,…

Language of Love

Jennifer Ziegler’s “Worser” centers a socially awkward,  12-year-old, word-loving boy William Orser, whose life is upended by his single mother’s recent stroke, but finds glimmers of hope when it turns out there are friends to be found who also share his love of wordplay.  Worser explores both the beauty and power of words and how…

South Africa win by an innings and 12 runs

17 Aug 2022, First LV Insurance Test, Day three of five, at Lord’s London England Vs South Africa South Africa 326 ao off 89.1 ov, Erwee 73 off 146, 6 fours, Jansen 48 off 79. 4 fours, 1 six, Elgar 47 off 81, 8 fours, Maharaj 41 off 49, 7 fours, Stokes 3-71, Broad 3-71,…

South Africa lead by 124 runs

17 Aug 2022, Test Match Series – Day 2 of 5 at Lord’s, London England Vs South Africa South Africa won the toss and decided to field. England 165 ao off 45 ov, Pope 73 off 102, 5 fours, Stokes 20 off 30,4 fours, Rabada 5-52, Nortje 3-63, Jansen 2-30. South Africa 289-7 off 77…