Sep 30, 2024
The self-help sections of newspapers, or newsfeeds if you’ve gone digital, are bulging these days with worldly wisdom that ranges from the seductive through to the bizarre through to the positively dangerous.
Whether it’s mysticism and mindfulness, or the plethora of contradictory and mutually exclusive dietary...
Sep 29, 2024
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ruling over nations, dictating how people should live and what they should believe. It’s not nice.
But that despotism can be much closer to home than you might imagine. Even if, like me, you happen to live in relative freedom, you’re more and more...
Sep 28, 2024
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have their act completely together – the perfect job, plenty of money and a family that you can only dream of?
I was chatting with a man recently whom I’ve known, I’m guessing, for around twenty years. Rather a long time. He’s a senior judge in...
Sep 27, 2024
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. With the ground shaking beneath your feet, you’re just waiting for the building to collapse around you and crush you beneath its rubble.
According to livescience.com, the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred on May 22nd, 1960 in Valdivia,...
Sep 26, 2024
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases are being added to your dictionary much more frequently than you might expect. But that’s by no means a new thing.
According to a recent press article, William Shakespeare is credited with inventing more than 1,700 words, including...