Admiral Cod

As you know, I am not a big fan of three-button, undarted sack suits. Why? They look too boxy, too square, too American on me. The presence ...

A recent action pic of my pair of pirate slippers from Stubbs & Wootton. These are the slippers of which slipper dreams are made. Featur...

I like a good Fez just as much as the next chap. The Fez originated not in the Muslim world, as some would have it, but in ancient Greece. T...

By 1999, I had achieved a successful Wall Street career in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market. But I wanted a break. So I went to S...

Beware a hard heart , was the advice given by Giuseppe di Lampedusa to his adopted son. It was not something she had managed to avoid. The c...

One of my correspondents, a Laguna Beach-based private banker, recently attended a luncheon for high net worth investors featuring a talk gi...

"I myself am not a gentleman. If I were, I would almost certainly not be writing this book, for one of the marks of a gentleman is that...

One of my favourite photographs. It is of my mother's brother, Miles. Educated at Eton and Oxford, where he read PPE, Miles trained as a...

A recent photograph taken on safari outside Oyster Bay, near Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Note the khaki Purdey bush shirt and chestnut mole...

Whilst looking through some papers, I found this old photograph of my boarding school, Templer College. I have fond memories of the place. I...

In a sports bar brimming with rugby fans I met a floppy-haired Irishman, Andy, and his South African wife, Catherine. Small, dark, sweet Cat...

A recent photo taken at Harbour Island, Bahamas. I am using the railing to steady myself, having just consumed a dozen large G&Ts. Note ...

As society in the modern West becomes more totalitarian, it will be even harder to make meaningful human connections and live a worthwhile l...

The term 'hedge fund style' is typically used to refer to a hedge fund's investment strategy. Some examples include special situ...

"A man falls in love because there is something wrong with him. It is not so much a matter of his health as it is of his mental climate...

“Just don’t delude yourself that you’re safe. Anything can happen. Life is a treacherous quicksand with no guarantee of safety anywhere. We ...

On my way up the southwest coast of Africa I stayed with an English-speaking South African couple living in Windhoek, Namibia. They had fled...

Aloysius at home with Tweed scarf, biscuit tin, and bottle of Moët & Chandon. He looks as if he is just itching to commit acts of extre...

Whilst living in Cape Town I befriended a bearded, bristle-headed, bespectacled German. Gunther was head of an advertising agency. He invite...

"We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the...

"I trust that you will forgive my friend. The wines were too various. It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault; it...