I lived in the USA for many years – in Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Nashville and Raleigh, North Carolina. And while the closest I got to the deep mid-west and south is Chicago and Nashville, I travelled extensively too, so I think I can make a case for a better understanding of American culture than […]
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I have started writing my autobiography. Not that I intend publishing, rather I am writing things down because, while my parents and grandparents relayed some of their stories to me, it was by no means a thorough review. I’d like my family to know more about the world I grew up in and how the […]
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It is impossible for me to write anything at the moment other than as it relates to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. All else seems insignificant although I don’t subscribe to the view that because of this all else should be forgiven or forgotten (this morning’s news of a Christmas Eve massacre in Myanmar set […]
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Although the last 77 years have not been free of conflict and the horrors of war and genocide, those of us who have grown up in a western democracy have become used to a privileged lifestyle, to living in peace, benefiting from the steady advance of global trade, innovation and technology in the main. I […]
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I reacted with both anger and disgust at the recent brutish harassment of the leader of the UK opposition outside parliament following yet another Boris Johnson lie, this time repeating a right wing conspiracy slur in Parliament (that has been debunked many times) about Sir Kier Starmer’s time as Chief Prosecutor when a serial paedophile […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) Sitting at my desk on the Gold Coast of Australia with 6 sleeps to Christmas it’s easy to ignore the perilous state of the world and the four horsemen riding amongst us: THE FOUR HORSEMEN COVID: It’s here but we are not affected anywhere […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) Christmas is here once again. Despite COVID and the need to nurse my poor wife back to health after breaking her pelvis (ouch!), the tree is up, lights flash and baubles and tinsel sparkle. This time of year is too special to shuffle celebrations […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) The drums are beginning to throb. I have been hearing more voices in the last few weeks talking about inflation, so much so that I’ve started to think about what may be ahead. ‘Respected’ figures in different countries such as Bank of England policy […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) First a little note to set the stage: I have found that most people outside of Britain do not understand the difference between the British Isles, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The UK is the combination of 3 nations and 1 territory. These […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) A friend of mine recently sent me an article from the New York Times’s Opinion Page entitled, “How to think outside your brain”. It made me think. The article explored the need to supplement mental capacity with other techniques and approaches in these days […]
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