The recent developments in the world of finance have prompted a flood of expert opinion, advice, explanation, analysis and interpretation in the media. Some of it has been refreshingly open (a bit like a good laugh at a funeral), much more of it confusing and self-deceptive.

 

Estimates of the length of the recovery period started at 6 months when the first news of sub-prime mortgages leaked. As

If the product description assures ‘safety’, beware.

 

The safety of our children in schools is a very tender subject, where honest and exploratory discussion is proscribed by automatic fearful reactions. To discern what are non-negotiable standards of safety and what are valid and acceptable risks is an obligation which is impossible to fulfill if the public dialogue is characterised by

An act of Kindness is a simple recognition of the oneness of life. An act of kindness is the manifestation of my kindness (that I’m one of my kind). We’re manifold expressions of a single, simple kind. Kin.

 

To act out of anything other than this is not only arrogance, but also self-ostracism. A kind of social suicide on the outside, which reflects a spiritual suicide on the inside.

 

To be kind