(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) What does the failed state of Yemen have in common with the USA? Not much, I hear you say. But these are the ONLY two countries in the world that allow civilians to wander the streets carrying repeating and semi-automatic long guns without […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) It’s been quite a year and one in which a good friend of mine, Dr Fayez Ayache succumbed to COVID-19 – a big-hearted man who gave more than he received and who is still missed and makes the tragedies of this year all the […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) Amidst the congratulations, hope and relief (and they are deserved) about the coming of a vaccine, this morning I note that worldwide more than one million, four hundred and twenty thousand souls have died from COVID 19. 1,420,000. And that doesn’t count many more […]
The post What is happening? first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave at bottom of page) Like the rest of the world I have been following the US Presidential election with a combination of fascination and concern as the current President of the United States, supported by his offspring and a subservient, compliant Republican Party, has been calling his defeat a fraud, without […]
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(click on heading to leave at bottom of page) As I watch the political landscape evolve in the USA I am reminded of a saying that has stuck with me for many, many years: First-rate people hire first-rate people. Second-rate people hire third-rate people. Great teams are built by pulling together people who have complementary […]
The post The Curse of Mediocrity first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave at bottom of page) I am watching with dismay the unashamed ditching of integrity, honour and principal and the steamroller application of power playing out in the Senate over the appointment of a judge to the US Supreme Court. During the 20th century, the Court became both more powerful and […]
The post Supreme Madness first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I was taught by my parents that it was good sense and good manners to avoid talking about religion and politics if you wanted to maintain harmony. But the revelations in Rage, Bob Woodward’s recent book, confirming from Donald Trump’s own mouth that he knew […]
The post The Ultimate Leadership Sin first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I am currently working on a historic detective novel, part of which takes place in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. As I always do, I’m spending a lot of my time in research. Edinburgh is familiar territory for me – and it’s one of the […]
The post Echoes: Burke & Hare first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I was looking at the soaring gold price today – a sign that inflation is on the horizon as a result of the massive money-printing that is going on across the globe to stave off or mitigate the evils of a recession. Following catastrophic bush […]
The post Recession & Depression first appeared on David Cairns of Finavon.
(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) With an eye to the theme of this blog, “Pay attention to history or suffer the consequences”, it would be difficult not to look back at the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to see if there are any lessons to be learned. Particularly so given […]
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