• Quincy Jones – a musical phenomenon

    Quincy Jones, one of the American popular musical greats renowned as a brilliant creator and composer as well as an entrepreneur, has died at 91. He raised many singers to a different level including Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin and propelled Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith to fame and fortune. He was born in Chicago on March 14, 1933 at 8.40pm into  grinding poverty during the Depression with his grandmother trapping and cooking rats when food was scarce
  • Royal finances – lifting the lid

    Even staunch Royalists are wincing over the recent investigation into King Charles and Prince William’s opaque financial affairs which details how their estates take money off hospitals, the military, prisons and firefighters. Both Royals pay income tax (since the 1990s though refuse to say how much) but not capital gains and corporation tax. Hints from 25 years back that greater transparency was needed have clearly been ignored.The feudal-sounding duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, owned

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