This is probably not a book to read on the top deck of the bus or on the 09:34 to Chipping Sodbury, if you don’t want to turn heads.
If I had a quid for every time I laughed out loud in the privacy of my own home while reading The Last Dance, the novel would have paid for itself many times over. And yet as a story about murders, psychology, dance, gangland intrigue – oh, and pet rats – it’s by no means a comedy.
Filed under Book reviews, Literature
Elon Musk doesn’t often lose, so the Delaware court’s cancellation yesterday of the 52-year-old’s $55.8bn (£44bn) pay deal, awarded to him in 2018 by electric car company Tesla, must have triggered unusual emotions, especially as his total fortune is estimated at “only” just over $210bn. But has his rise and rise ended? Will he, like Icarus, finally fall to earth?
Filed under Health, Media, Science, space and astronomy
As Christmas Day draws ever nearer, the thoughts of many Christians – and others – will return to the story of the birth of Jesus in a stable in Bethlehem.
But another largely stable dimension of Christianity has been the ever-spiralling wealth of the Church, most notably the Roman Catholic Church. Financial and sexual scandals have dogged this property-based enterprise, which, in consequence perhaps of its elaborate administrative structures, has often seemed to be allowed to exercise limp self-regulation and immunity from outside investigation. As a barrel, it has had far more than its fair share of rotten apples …
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