Yesterday was the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. One million men were killed in that gruesome battle alone. One of the principle reasons for the creation of the EU and its predecessors, after all the slaughter, the cruelty and the wasted resources, human and material, in the 20th …
Emails revolutionised working life, providing an instant way to communicate without picking up the phone. “Then everyone started using them”, and they became the bane of our lives. Last year, some 74 trillion missives were sent – the equivalent of 2.4 million a second: “many are unsolicited and pointless” but, since we are “a polite …
“The “intensity of mockery” heaped on LinkedIn following the announcement of its $26bn sale to Microsoft makes me actually want to pity the world’s largest professional network. “LinkedIn is Facebook for ugly people”, tweeted one wag in a typically jaundiced pronouncement. But I have finally learnt “if not to love, then at least to appreciate”, …
“In the midst of such overwhelming existential change, the pace of our daily lives will continue to increase as our world continues to shrink. Fear and anxiety are natural reactions, yet no one in the political realm acknowledges this”. (Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, March 2016). Speaking as an older person I can second her concern. …
Quotation from an current NPR article on the effect of Brexit: “Matthias Matthijs, a political economist at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, says the U.S. had already been gravitating toward Germany long before the Brexit vote. Matthijs says the Germans have been taking the lead in a number of recent crises. “We’ve …
