(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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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) History is littered with the blood, death and despair of conflict. Often the road to war has been all too obvious but willingly ignored. Perhaps the most notorious situation was Britain’s refusal to accept that Germany under Hitler intended to use war as a […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) I was struck today by two news items; the first an article on the ethical challenges facing social media companies, the second an alarming news item from Belarus about the jailing of two journalists simply for filming a street protest. Free speech is a […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) What does the failed state of Yemen have in common with the USA? Not much, I hear you say. But these are the ONLY two countries in the world that allow civilians to wander the streets carrying repeating and semi-automatic long guns without […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) It’s been quite a year and one in which a good friend of mine, Dr Fayez Ayache succumbed to COVID-19 – a big-hearted man who gave more than he received and who is still missed and makes the tragedies of this year all the […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) Amidst the congratulations, hope and relief (and they are deserved) about the coming of a vaccine, this morning I note that worldwide more than one million, four hundred and twenty thousand souls have died from COVID 19. 1,420,000. And that doesn’t count many more […]
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