We left Honolulu yesterday, and I had to transfer in San Francisco. San Francisco Airport looks new and spiffy.  Haven't been here in at least four years.  The United Club is also nicer looking, but far too small.  People need to wait to find a seat.  I had a soup and beer, caught the flight to Las Vegas.  Business class on United was terrible.  The seat had no leg rest and reclined maybe two inches.  Better than the next plane to Vegas which had no adjustment.  Worst of all, I asked for peanuts or chips, and the steward said that I needed to go to their magazine and pay for ordering them.  I said, isn't this business class?  He said no, this is first class.  United?  Can you believe this? The sun was setting, so after leaving Honolulu at 8:45AM, landed in Las Vegas at 9:30PM .  A taxi to the Circa with tip would have cost around $50.  Took Bell Trans for $20, with tip.  The problem is that the van has other passengers heading for the Strip.  Las Vegas Boulevard is undergoing

Before getting into nostalgia, who is  new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ? 42-year old Hindu born in Southampton whose parents of Indian descent migrated from East Africa in the 1960s. Went to Oxford, then got an MBA from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar. While at Stanford, met his wife Akshata Murthy, daughter of Indian billionaire N.R. Narayana Murthy, who founded Infosys. Rishi and Akshata have two children and are an almost billionaire couple, the 222nd richest people in Britain. First British Asian and Hindu to become prime minister. While relatively young, David Cameron in 2010 was only a year older at 43, while the first PM, Robert Walpole in 1721 was 44, William Cavendish in 1756 was 36, Charles Watson-Wentworth was 35, Augustus FitzRoy in 1768 was 33 and William Pitt the Younger ( right ) in 1783 was 24.  Winston Churchill in 1940 was 65, Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was 53 and Tony Blair in 1997 was 43. According to  Time  magazine: He bears none of the clownish antics

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