Recent Blogs.- 1 + 1 = BANANA March 30, 2020I read a teasing piece about poor Diane Abbott this week. I find now as Labour party regimes change that I miss her good heartedness and her arithmetical loopiness. She once missed out some noughts in describing how much a proposed recruitment of police officers would cost annually allowing her interviewer to splutter:“So you’re going […]
- WHAT'S NEXT? March 23, 2020I constantly hear people saying “when things get back to normal…” but normal is history now, there is going to be a new-normal not an old one.Coronavirus is forcing us to re-appraise our relationships, our behaviour and our attitudes. And as we do this there’s one thing that deeply worries me. Most people are not […]
- STOP BEING SO DEPRESSED March 16, 2020There’s a sense of giving up amongst many I know and it won’t do.The other morning our doorbell rang at 7.15. It was a neighbour holding half of my wing-mirror and saying apologetically “I’m afraid someone’s vandalised your car.” I shrugged and said “oh well, high spirits and too much to drink I suppose” but […]
- CRASH OF THE GIANTS March 9, 2020Am I being melodramatic in suggesting that 2020 will go down as one of the moments in recent history when everything changed?Coronavirus, apart from the obvious epidemiological stuff, has caused a financial collapse but more importantly a collapse in confidence in the interconnectedness of the globalised economy.In the 1960s I was persuaded by a friend […]
- AAARRRGH!! March 2, 2020Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of our most quoted writers, said: “Fear defeats more people than any other thing in the world.”There’s something disagreeable about seeing people panic. Something futile. Something demeaning. But fear can also be also something enormously powerful. Fear fills Shakespeare’s tragedies, fear of the unknown, fear of betrayal, fear of failure.We are […]
- 1 + 1 = BANANA March 30, 2020