‘From Sadness to Serenity’
Some people experience few if any bereavements in their lives, I really have had plenty of practice at it now and while still by no means an expert have learnt enough to be able to offer some helpful...
View Article‘The Meaning of Monty Python’
(warning- this post features gratuitous Python references) Last night I was lucky enough to be at the O2 Arena to watch the Monty Python Reunion show and once the pain in my face had subsided from...
View Article‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society’
Over the last few days there has been increased discussion about suicide sparked by the sad loss of the American actor/comedian Robin Williams. I resisted discussing anything about what I view as a...
View Article‘There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the...
What is the Winter Solstice? Why should you care? This is not a Scroogey anti-commercial diatribe on the materialism of Christmas, you can work out your own feelings on that. But I think the Earth...
View Article‘Evolution not Revolution’
Party politics is dead. Long live party politics. With parliament dissolved and only a week to go until the election, the UK is in political limbo. Take a good look. This is the last time politics will...
View Article‘The Truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind’
Out and about on dull errands in drizzly unfestive England today, I thought back to last weekend when I was in Paris. The Dickens line, ‘a tale of two cities’ has never seemed so accurate. Paris has...
View Article‘To Thine Own Self Be True’
So, the day we go to the polls to decide whether the UK stays or leaves the EU. And tomorrow is another day, because the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or do they? This is a deeply...
View Article‘Que Sera Sera, Whatever Will Be Will Be…’
When I woke up this morning, for a split second I didn’t remember that yesterday Britain left the EU, the Prime Minister resigned, London and other places wanted to be a Republic and there was...
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