Ha, good stuff! You’re believable

It’s more likely than you think!

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He has bankrolled Alibaba, he has invested really early into the iPhone and his money have powered almost every all successful businesses in the Silicon Valley. All of this from humble roots as a Korean immigrant on the edges of Japanese society in the 1960s.

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Masayoshi Son is one of the world’s biggest investors who heads Japan’s biggest bank, SoftBank through which he reportedly controls a $1 trillion of assets around the world.

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Penrose was a physicist, mathematician, Nobel Prize Winner and above all a human being just like ourselves. The book distills the achievements of genius really well, but also paints a picture of inner turmoil and suffering that accompanies and shadows that genius throughout Penrose’s life.

There’s something very “good old history” about this book. I can’t quite tell. Perhaps it’s just that I haven’t read fresh diplomatic history for a while. Wonderful vibes.

I’m a third of the way through and whilst London, Moscow and Washington feature heavily it’s great to see Paris, Beijing, Warsaw and Athens also get attention. It’s also great to see new diplomatic history back on the agenda.

The chapter on Mers El Kebir was thrilling. 👀 🇬🇧 🇫🇷

The one on the left is yesterday, the big roast is today.

We’re lucky to celebrate the European and British traditions on two separate days.

Merry Christmas

Dare I correct myself of course it was an audiobook so a “listen” not a read. I normally have two books going at the same time - audio for commutes and physical copy for home.

Mind you, this can usher in something worse or just as bad, there is much history of that. I’m just saying. Autocrats who look unbeatable sometimes just get on a plane ✈️.

Rounding up building site workers in the understanding that most of them are in the country illegally and they can otherwise threaten them with expulsion but can also offer the carrot of healthcare/insurance/nationality etc.

it didn’t seem to work. Wonder if camera off they were indeed rounded up