With the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi this past week, my mind, of course, turns to Independence and the echoes to the present.

Imagine the devastation of a hurricane, yet the US President, rightly, said all he could against the fury of God; 'we will get the money, and you can take it.'

Everywhere Muslims are under attack it seems. Not from the West, but other Muslims. Islam needs freedom fighters. Freedom from the Muslims that will kill them in Iraq, that will kill them in Syria and that will kill them in Afghanistan. And...

Seriously, stop lecturing on what UK and India need to do. The number of talking heads yacking about how Britain needs to do this and that post Brexit. The amazing thing is, it’s not the Indians (other than the Indian media sometimes). Classy...

A family member asked me recently how to get into investing, and then quickly machine gunned a few more questions; ‘isn’t Amazon expensive? What about Lloyds? Won’t there be a market crash? How do I buy shares? How do I buy American stocks?...

How do you decide who to entrust with your investments? We had to think of this recently when we launched a new service for private investors. How will our customers think. It is always difficult as a business working out prices.

Race riots in America, nuclear aggression in the Far East, Syria, ISIS. We look for leadership. We look for hope. We so often looked to America when in despair. Sometimes they made things better.

It is summer. A time to relax. A guru has been arrested. A mad man is flying rockets. Brexit. Trump. Hurricanes. School starts soon.

I write to you before leaving for Singapore a financial centre made famous by the trader Nick Leeson – machismo trading personified. Have you noticed there are no trading or financial scandals involving women – no Fox of Wall Street?

It is summer. A time to relax. A guru has been arrested. A mad man is flying rockets. Brexit. Trump. Hurricanes. School starts soon.