A few weeks ago, I made reference to a book by Mark Manson, the title of which contains a rude word that even the use of appropriate asterisks cannot really disguise, but the gist of which is that everything has gone to hell in a handcart.  I confess that I was not entirely sure where the autho...

If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, it presumably ends with one as well.  If this is the first of my blogs you have read, or if you are someone who just dips into them from time to time, you will not have noticed how much time I have devoted in the last year or two to a...

The end is in sight and there is light at the end of the tunnel – though let us hope that is not just a train coming the other way – in our epic journey through the work of David Goodhart in ‘Head Hand Heart’.  After covering his ideas across several blogs in the last ye...

It was a genuine pleasure to have time over the Christmas break, particularly in the afternoons when the various domestic chores had been completed, to be able to read a couple of really good books and, above all, to be able to explore some of their themes in more detail via a host of internet searc...

As part of my ongoing quest to tidy things up and reach a point where I can be relatively satisfied that I have no burning issues left to share, this week’s offering from my ‘Unused Material’ file is going to prove a challenge to compile with a positive spin because much of it refl...