The Tyranny of the Urgent

There are different ways of relating to the telephone.  Some people always rush to answer.  Some have a look at […]

On Violence

It will be old news by the time you read this, but as I write, the world is coming to […]

Interconnectedness

You may have come across “Chaos Theory”, and in particular its most famous illustration, the “Butterfly Effect.”  This suggests that […]

On Democracy

On 11th November 1947, Winston Churchill said, “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this […]

Real Hope

I was talking to someone recently when they suggested that they were a “glass-half-empty” person.  I think this commonly-used metaphor […]

Policy of Truth

It’s just time to pay the price for not listening to adviceand deciding in your youth on the policy of […]

Linking Christmas and Easter

As I write, Christmas has pretty much disappeared from view and Easter is just becoming visible in the distance.  This […]