Live while you are alive
The religious groups and disability rights advocates who oppose assisted death are concerned that elderly and disabled people, especially those who are low-income, could be pressured into taking the drugs in order to end or avoid expensive, life-sustaining care. They fear the protections suggested would not overcome the temptation of those hoping for legacies, and …
Following months of trouble with both telephone and internet connections, British Telecom engineers noted that David Critchard’s password was overdue a change. And so they helpfully changed it. “I was sent an email to tell me that it had been changed, containing the new password,” writes David. “But of course I couldn’t access their message …
Research by Matt Killingsworth of Harvard University suggests that we are happiest when we are not actively seeking happiness, but are wrapt in the moment. Happiness is a mode of being, not a mode of seeking. A bit like Schrodinger’s cat (the act of observing changes the situation): the moment we say we are happy …
So much does our culture prize personality over achievement that even lawyers these days have to have an “interesting” one. Take the director general of business tax – at Britain’s Inland Revenue – one Jim Harra. A key figure in negotiating a derisory tax deal with Google, he has also, believe it or not, been voted …
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“I sympathise more and more with Kingsley Amis’s view that life is too short to read any books that don’t begin with the words ‘A shot rang out’”. (Jonathan Coe, The Guardian) I don’t know about you but life is so earnest that my preference is a fast-paced book with an exciting plot that takes …
