We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But…
Was anyone really surprised that Mr Trump caught COVID-19? Were you surprised that a large number of people who attended his rally to appoint a new Supreme Court justice also…
Some years ago, I discovered that I am not able to worry about more than one thing at a time. When two disasters struck simultaneously, each kept displacing the other…
Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the Covid story? You are not alone. Early in this series of essays on the subject, I recalled that in the…
The young optician examining my eyes spoke with a slight Spanish accent. I asked him where he came from and he told me that he was from Seville but now…
I’m not sure that my profession has done a very good job of explaining the implications of climate change. We do tend to think in terms of infections spread by…
In a recent essay, I recalled the lesson of the two monkeys on our childhood shoulders and the problem of good and evil with which the human psyche wrestles (SR…
In sorting out the clutter in the two rooms I call my studies, in preparation for the arrival of some Ukrainian refugees, I came across an aged photograph of my…
Recent events have brought back a memory of a holiday in Tenerife four years ago. We had gone to the hotel bar for a drink before going to bed. There…
It was found in a small box during one of our attempts at clearing accumulated clutter: an 1873 farthing. We still use the expression for valueless, ‘not worth a farthing’,…