a convenient truth

Story at wired.com.

This kind of thing (a submarine patent) is so anti-competitive, and so
clearly harmful to everyone, that it completely and permanently amazes me
that it has the support of so many people who claim to be ‘friends of
business’. Including the current incumbents of the White House and Downing
Street. The problem is that the lawyers and losers who inhabit these
places wouldn’t know a business if it smacked them in the face.

It’s been part of Rowan’s family legends that they had a relative on the
Titanic, although they didn’t know who it was. Well, through a few
relatives they have discovered that it was a woman called Clear Annie
Cameron.

The interweb being what it is, as soon as you’ve got a decent search
term, you can find out almost href="http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio/p/2nd/cameron_c.shtml">Everything
.

There’s some stuff missing from there though - she must have returned to
England after this, because it was subsequently she married by
great-great-uncle-in-law.