Theresa May is quoted as saying, “The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that.” As prime minister, she has taken the approach that the referendum gave a clear Brexit result to leave the EU, so this was […]
The Olly Robbins’ Show
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 […]
