I sometimes wish that a few of our high-and-mighty pseudo-intellectuals would take a calm look at history, at the origins of our species and come to accept that, while our society could well be the epitome of all values, it had a very late start and that thanks only to all the wild, uncultivated, heathen…

Imagination is a wonderful thing and I, too, often imagine myself sitting quietly somewhere, a cup of tea or a glass of wine, even a tumbler of good whisky, close at hand, and a book. Sometimes, late at night, I do manage to settle down and open one of the books patiently awaiting my attention…

There are few things left in life today that people understand as an acceptable excuse for not doing something, especially when it comes to not doing something they have expected – or demanded – be done and which, given the opportunity, they wouldn’t do themselves. Quite recently I was asked by a bank teller to…

It rarely happens that what we have planned works exactly as it we would wish or hope, simply because there are too many other factors involved which we need to take into account, which we need to weigh up as best we can and which, often, we have no notion of whatsoever. When it comes…