The Daily Paradox

Apologies for silence. A damaged foot, requiring minor surgery, followed by hospital pneumonia distracted me. I am now refocused on what matters - You. Review the world…

“Without honesty, democracy collapses into manipulation”. George Orwell’s famous comment is history now. I imagine virtually no voter on earth thinks democracy is widely honest.…

The dramatic decline in alcohol consumption is due to a combination of several things. Boozy drinks have always been a favourite target of the tax…

All life is for enjoying, even childhood, contrary to the belief of some parents. In today’s exam-ridden, qualifications-desperate world you might wonder about that. “So…

‘Nice’ is a word seldom favoured by the literate cognoscenti. It lacks the forceful kicks of ‘passion’ and ‘hate’. Its tepid endorsement is so pallid…

If you drive for just over an hour from my mother’s home town, Little Falls, Minnesota, you reach Minneapolis, a thriving, Mid-West American city known…

We should not allow either a leader or ourselves to run amok. Doing so is an indictment of the current political and social system. A…

‘United we stand’ chants the crowd, hoping to avoid having to add the corollary ‘Divided we fall’. You don't hear much of either of these…

Humanity’s future depends on our cooperating with, and understanding, other people. If we do both these things there are no limits to what we can…

There is a vivid irony of the coincidence of what the world woke up to on the morning of my 7th birthday (18Sep1939) and what…