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Would you like a little good news? After all, there ’s not that much of it around. We ought to make the most of what there is.  A man from a...

There’s a special kind of novel or film that I always think of as a ‘descent into hell’. It’s where a central character, or group of charact...

Wall painting of a great Jewish scholar Rabbi Moshe ben Rahman, ‘Ramban’ There’s a story about a Pope who decided that he wanted to turn Ita...

August is usually hot up here in the Northern hemisphere, and this year global warming is making it worse (are there really still people aro...

Three years into retirement, I’m getting a clearer perspective on certain received principles people like to tell you about work. One of the...

There was a hill ringed by wooded parkland and crowned by a castle, looking out over the deep blue of the Mediterranean. There was an old to...

Can flowers do anything with a bang? I mean, they seem fundamentally gentle to me. Still, I suppose if you make a battle of them, a bang wou...