Please don’t think that this is a gratuitous attempt to insult the reader….it’s just the popular name of a pressure group in Lebanon which is demanding that the government do something about the waste crisis in the country. Those inhabitants who live near the main municipal dump have said “no more” and as a result,…
Music festivals have come a long way since the days of Woodstock and the Isle of Wight when, if they didn’t start free, they often became so half way through. These days they are a big business not just in the UK but also in Europe, America and further afield. Perhaps the best illustration of…
From its origins in the coffee houses of London during the late seventeenth century until now, the modern insurance industry has always been affected by the vagaries of the weather. The Lutine Bell traditionally rang out in the Lloyd’s Building in London to alert underwriters to impending bad news like the sinking of a merchantman…
Insurance & Climate change My day was brightened this morning by noticing a colourful advertisement in my newspaper of choice for the new Coral Reefs – Secret Cities of the Seas exhibition which is being staged by the Natural History Museum. It was not so much the witty depiction of the reef denizens as stay …