In part one of this blog I made the point that envy is one of the most dangerous emotions because it wants to spoil or...
March 1, 2020
What’s the most dangerous emotion of all? Anger? Lust? Greed? Those can all be dangerous under the right...
February 1, 2020
This is the time of year when we tend to pause and reflect. Maybe we look back over the last year, maybe we look back...
January 1, 2020
Which age group do you think is most likely to say they experience loneliness at Christmas? Wrong. It’s not the...
December 1, 2019
My friend does not have green fingers. After he’s had a garden for a few years you need a machete to find your way...
November 1, 2019
Do you ever feel you don’t understand why you do what you do? Sarah’s like that. She’s never managed to have a...
October 1, 2019
How easy would you find it to stand up in front of a potentially hostile audience and express yourself honestly? ...
September 1, 2019
It took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts before he invented a commercially viable lightbulb. Did he regard them as...
August 1, 2019
… from the BBC’s Arts Editor actually – Will Gompertz. Or, more accurately, it’s copied. You see, Gompertz...
July 1, 2019
I knew very little about Van Gogh when I went to a ‘Van Gogh and Britain’ exhibition at the Tate. I still...
June 1, 2019
