Live while you are alive
Thoughts on attending an exhibition of John Constable’s painting at the National Gallery in Washington One knows only too well that landscape paintings hide Unseen miseries, unhappiness and early death. Yet here’s Old England, on the cusp of change, Captured immortally by the painter’s brush, The rustic face …
Is meritocracy what we really want? Theresa May has said, “I want Britain to be a place where advantage is based on merit, not privilege, where it’s your talent and hard work that matter, not where you were born, who your parents are or what your accent sounds like “. Sounds reasonable. And yet, in …
Every hot dog a person eats shortens their life by 36 minutes, according to new research. Experts at the University of Michigan said that the 61 grams of processed meat in the hot dog results in 27 minutes of healthy life lost. “Then, when considering the other risk factors, like the sodium and trans fatty …
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“I can’t be a pessimist, because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter”. (James Baldwin, quoted on NPR.org) My comment: I spent some time thinking about this, and concluded that I didn’t agree with it. Being a realist (another way of saying a …
There’s no such thing as the season of goodwill when it comes to political debate on social media. It’s all about fury and outrage. Even when tweets are funny, you can taste the “anger inside the sugar coating of smug satire”. Rage is contagious – it spreads like an infection across online forums, which have …
