As today is the most important General Election in living memory, and the most disgraceful campaign in living memory, let’s talk about the weather. A lover of wild weather, so…
On Monday 10 August, it was precisely 10 years since dad died. Ten years. Grief doesn’t magically end following a period of mourning. Reminders such as birthdays, anniversaries, and memories…
Senior managers in the public and private sectors are recruited primarily for their purposeful and decisive planning skills: strategic planning, operational planning, action planning, implementation planning, risk analysis â you…
It was a dull, grey Thursday morning at around 9.00am. Gazing out the window, my husband suddenly beckoned me to join him. Outside was a police car with blue lights…
A sclerotic, disgustingly privileged institution, the reigning House of Windsor needs dragged by the scruff of its neck into restructuring, or abolished altogether. Although no royalist, I’ve never been a…
At some point in the 80s, during my stint as an undergrad at Glasgow University, my philosophy tutor, the late, great Dudley Knowles, said that upon retirement he intended to…
One of the upsides of visiting the graves of thinkers I admire (or grudgingly respect) is that you see towns and cities, or parts of towns and cities, that you…
Well, hello again. I’ve been away for a while due to illness. Nothing serious â the blasted mumps â only it could have been. I was whipped into the Queen…
I was reminded last week of a gravestone inscription in Honley Churchyard somewhere in England by my close friend Jackie’s emergency surgery whilst on holiday in Palma, Majorca: ‘Where ere…
My thoughts this week, like many others no doubt, have been dismal. A common thread running through events has been the importance of good governance and the potentially dreadful consequences…