When the British civil servant Olly Robbins was first compared with Grigori Rasputin, the Russian cult-figure and self-proclaimed prophet, by some Brexiteer Conservative MPs, most of us were surprised. Then when the former head of Ml6, the British Secret Service, Richard Dearlove, said that Robbins “had serious questions of improper conduct to answer over the […]
Mr. Zuckerberg and his hero, the Emperor Augustus
Recently I saw an article on Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, and his interest in the classics and especially in the Roman Emperor Augustus, and I have to admit it aroused my curiosity. Before I read the article, I wondered whether Zuckerberg was like many other CEOs who hold the story “Odyssey”, as a […]
The ‘Backstop’ and why it is important
Watching both the BBC news and Sky news the term ‘backstop’ has been discussed practically every night over the last week. Of course, this is referring to the current Brexit negotiations. The term ‘backstop’ has been defined as “a thing placed at the rear of something as a barrier or support”. In December […]
