Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Delicate Flowers & Reasons to Live: Why IS will not be defeated by bomb & bullet.

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When charismatic churches are on the look out for new recruits they energetically love bomb them into submission.  This practice involves t...
Friday, 6 November 2015

Games, Trickery & Getting Off - Sensible & Silly Criticisms

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I don’t know if you and your colleagues have ever been accused of being weird, useless and conniving in your professional endeavours.  If ...
Thursday, 1 October 2015

Fast Times: Slow Living

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Anyone who has kept an eye on Jeremy Corbyn’s first few weeks in office can’t fail to have noticed that he has attracted some criticis...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

The Butcher, the Baker and the Barrister: The way things were they will not be.

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  In July of this year an exceptionally fine pair of candlesticks called the Cremorne Candelabra sold at Christie’s for just un...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Tied up in knots and choked by choice - Why less is more.

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I have just moved house.  Notorious for inclusion among the three Ds of devastating stress: Divorce, Death and Decamping.  It must be a ne...
Friday, 7 August 2015

How to be a witness: Good Looks & Fleeting Glances

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We do not teach children to be witnesses.   It is not surprising therefore that the quality of witnesses varies enormously.   As patients...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

The Shame Game: Why sorry is not the hardest word.

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Why do the Royal Family still dress like this ?   Is it because formal military dress is smarter than civilian clothing?   Is it because...