Marc JohnsonAug 14, 20157 min readThe Education of the Younger BrotherIt’s difficult, no matter your personal politics, to not have some sympathy for Jeb Bush and his efforts to articulate a plausible...
Marc JohnsonMay 25, 20155 min readGod Save the Queen…There is an old joke well known to owners of British automobiles of a certain age. It goes something like this: Question – Why have the...
Marc JohnsonJan 8, 20145 min readDownton UpperA few million of us have been, sort of, introduced to Lloyd George thanks to the PBS import of Downton Abbey, the Masterpiece series that...
Marc JohnsonAug 5, 20133 min readNothing Succeeds Like ExcessDon’t get me wrong, I love the biggest big city in the world. It’s the capitol of everything from food to finance, but New York is also...
Marc JohnsonApr 8, 20135 min readThe Iron LadyThe Argentine invasion of the sparely populated, wind-blown and British controlled islands came at a low point of then-Prime Minister...
Marc JohnsonJul 26, 20122 min readRomney in LondonBy the measure of world-wide Twitter trending (#Romneyshambles), not to mention the Brit papers, Romney’s visit to London has gone over...
Marc JohnsonApr 17, 20122 min readKeep CalmI just bought a nifty coffee mug emblazoned with the five words – Keep Calm and Carry On. (It seemed like the right kind of mantra at...
Marc JohnsonNov 29, 20113 min readPC Run WildI am a sucker for old, historic hotels and among the many I love is the Algonquin in New York City. Not because the rooms are great –...
Marc JohnsonJul 18, 20112 min readA Job for DCI TennisonI’m thinking as I read about each new revelation in the widening Rupert Murdoch/tabloid/police/political scandal in Britain that we...