Category Archives: Travel

Bring on the clowns

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Here’s a terrific story that surfaced in The Guardian this week in the context of the Pakistan match-fixing convictions, and the fact that corruption and gambling in Asian cricket is seen as a cultural problem. In 1995 a new mayor took office … Continue reading →

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My friend the visionary

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Almost exactly forty years ago to this day I started my first job in London. Improbable as it seems now, it was as an articled clerk with one of the big London-Scottish firms of accountants. I’ve written about this in … Continue reading →

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Finca Banega

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Today John Simmons and Stuart Delves are in Spain with the Dark Angels advanced group and I’m preparing to leave for Hyderabad in the morning. It has been a strange day, knowing they’re there in that beautiful place, basking in … Continue reading →

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Temples of Mammon

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Thirty-nine years plus a few weeks ago I started my first job. Incredible though it now seems, it was in the City. I had graduated with a law degree from Aberdeen University but wanted neither to practice law nor to … Continue reading →

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