The Daily Paradox

Eighty years ago I received the best birthday present I have ever had in anticipation of my soon-to-happen thirteenth birthday. As I stepped across the…

Those of you who knew her will remember who I am talking about. Many of you won’t. Liz and I were friends for seventy years.…

Human beings are unlikely to become obsolete for some time yet. They may do so in the end. That will probably be after your life…

The idea that a small white pickup truck bumping along the road in Rome, taking a plain wooden coffin to a parish church for burial…

At last a journalist has shouted “No clothes” at the ridiculous spectacle of a crazy President taking the world apart in front of our eyes.…

Colleagues and friends have helped my thinking in writing this.. thank you all. The responsibility for the outcome is wholly mine. ‘Bewilderment and deep concern’…

One of the readers of The Daily Paradox asks a good question:  “How do we make a difference today? At this juncture?” Thank you, MM.…

Almost anything we say about a better behaved world sounds like an old Sunday sermon - incontrovertible and not achievable. Humanity has largely abandoned aspirations…

The sheer effrontery of a trumped-up pipsqueak United States Vice-President stepping onto Danish soil, announcing that it is colder than he had thought and then…

If you find my banging on about strategy and tactics boring please be consoled by the fact that you are one of a majority of…