“The virus and the response to it was political long before I added my tuppence worth.”
‘Untangling The Threads’: The Political Response to #Covid19
Magnificent Triviality
“Yesterday was a day of extraordinary, wildly contrasting emotions”
Proof Positive
“The golf mind coach Bob Rotella always says that the one thing that unites us is that, regardless of whatever is going on around us, we can all choose how we think.”
The Bigger Picture
“ the movement towards self-government is much, much bigger than one man.”
The Value of Nothing
The UK Government erroneously presumes that what is high-paid is high-skill and what is low-paid is low-skill. Boris Johnson, a highly paid chancer with no discernible talent whatsoever, proves the opposite.
A View from the Bridge
“The closure of the Forth bridge due to Storm Ciara shouldn’t really be a story at all”
Immortal Memory
“This is essentially a story about the universal, global appeal and relevance of a poet in a world that boasts at least forty statues of him.”
Thoughts from a long journey south
“This is about self-respect.”
“The antithetical mind”
“That was the phrase employed by Byron to describe the genius of Robert Burns in viewing things from the opposite perspective, of looking through the glass from the other side”
‘The Way To Win’
“There’s a thing called empathetic fallacy, which means that we take our own logical thinking and assume that everybody thinks like us.”
