GuyM
@guym
Ex partner in PwC Africa. The only race we belong to is the human one. Gone to Crete.
Argentina were a disgrace. Two shots (and none on target) in 120 minutes. Anti football. And then they started a punch up after they’d lost.
In a neat reversal of history, England defence in the World Cup Semi Final was crap after an early attack seemed to give supremacy. Just like Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands in 1982. Dan Burn as the General Belgrano.
Crete. Dinner with my daughter after her year of travel to: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Sicily, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, China, Vietnam, Thailand. And Greece.
I swim here every morning. Each day for the last 2 weeks, a middle-aged bare-chested man with a London accent has walked up and down the road complaining loudly on his phone about Donald Trump. Really. So tempted to tell him: do yourself a favour, get off your phone, get in the sea, chill.
Europe is going to have a brutal heatwave. The strange thing about this is that Crete is relentlessly high 20s/low 30s. Must be something about being an island.
This really is a dramatic story of corporate greed, as relevant today as it was when all this played out over 100 years ago.
Finally got around to reading this. Fuck me, Clive of India was really quite something.
Astonishing photo of Hitler meeting Nietzsche’s sister in Weimar in 1934. Shown in this excellent book from Katja Hoyer.
In Crete people don’t actually have cats as far as I can see. They just arrive at your house and if you feed them, they come back. So, I don’t have cats, but they definitely have me.