By Paul Sankey
Published on June 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This evening, we meet in the Parlour Bar at the Intercontinental, Midtown Manhattan, I will be there 4:30pm meeting Devon and then hang out drinking heavily and telling ribald jokes. Please join. In fact I will be sipping non-alcoholic beer, listening politely. Hopefully to ribald jokes. Sully is in, and he adds value every time. We can talk industrials! Sully is not Brian Sullivan, who was scheduled to interview me again yesterday, but I pulled …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on June 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy Father’s Day! Having lunch with the three kids this afternoon at 5pm. Specific “Mother’s” and “Father’s Day” as such are American inventions, in West Virginia 1907 for Mother’s Day, and 1909 for Father’s Day as a complement, to be fair to Fathers. Should really be Mom’s Day and Dad’s Day. Mother’s Day in the UK has its origins in the 16th-century custom of ‘Mothering Sunday’, which fell on the fourth Sunday of Lent. So …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Greetings, Beautiful day here in London, darkening now at 5pm, although temperatures are still wintry-chill, the sun was blazing, and in London, the daffodils are out, following the snowdrops that emerge as early as late January. From here in London, we have another six months of spring, and then go into Autumn. The questionable London summer is a brief transition. By contrast in New York we go from Arctic weather to summer heat with nary …
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