‘It’s a real adventure. You’re constantly discovering new things about yourself and other people. You get the...
October 1, 2017
One of the worst blunders in the history of foreign language translation was made by a Russian interpreter assisting...
September 2, 2017
It started to go wrong on the ferry over. He’d built his car himself from a kit and it was his pride and joy. He...
August 1, 2017
Three engineering students were talking about what kind of God designed the human body. The first said, ‘God must be...
July 2, 2017
Are you the sole owner of your mind? Maybe not quite as much as you think. A while back I came across an empty...
June 1, 2017
Age-inappropriate cravings for sports cars, affairs with secretaries, mutton dressed as lamb – all stereotypes of the...
May 1, 2017
Burnout is insidious. Its causes –chronic stress chief among them – are cumulative and it’s easy not to realize...
April 1, 2017
A colleague of mine recently went to see an exhibition at the Tate Britain. He really enjoyed himself because it was...
March 22, 2017
What you find stressful someone else may not. The experience of stress varies from person to person, depending on our...
March 5, 2017
How many brains have you got? Answer: two – a left brain and a right brain, each interacting with the other but...
January 5, 2017
Bereavement is the process of moving from not wanting to accept a terrible reality to being able to accept it. For that...
December 30, 2016
How do you deal with a bully? There are a lot of high-profile ones around. Vladimir Putin has bullied Ukraine and...
December 19, 2016
