2026
The Most Important Question
It’s been a long, hot and very busy summer. The world remains in turmoil at both a national and international level. Tragedy and death are constantly at the forefront of the news headlines. Wars, earthquakes and then the Nepalese floods, have claimed the lives of many thousands. Here in the UK, so-called ‘joy-riders’, deliberately driving the wrong way on our roads, both died themselves and killed others in horrific crashes. Watching the news can be a traumatizing experience, sometimes too gruesome to watch and hear. The words ‘Warning – Distressing Content’ regularly appear on our TV screens.
2025
Fake News!
All this last week the BBC has been exposed as the purveyor of fake news. The organization which, for a hundred years and more, has prided itself as being the gold standard of truth and the totally impartial source of world news, has been caught out in at least three different ways.
2025
I’m Out of Breath!
I’m out of breath!! Metaphorically speaking. Keeping pace with the unfolding catalogue of world events is exhausting, as well as potentially frightening.
2025
Pygmalion!
I occasionally do the Saturday Crossword in the Daily Telegraph. A few weeks ago, the answer to one of the clues was Pygmalion. I knew this name as the title of a musical and of a book by George Bernard Shaw, but I found myself curious to know more about who was Pygmalion?