The perils of publishing: another one of Gesta’s rants.

Or how to screw something up monumentally. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but whose pen is mightier: the author’s or their publisher’s?

Cake man – the proto Medici

A weekend visit by gesta and myself to the Alfred exhibition in Winchester was interesting as a day (or half-hour, given the low attendance) out. A bit hagiographical, and given the subtitle (“Warfare, Wealth and Wisdom”) and location (Winchester library) it was perhaps unsurprising which topic was the focus.