Cogitations

I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-year gap seemed a lifetime; as →

In Part 1, we saw how even the most exalted stars in the celebrity firmament look on in dismay as their greatest successes – Wimbledon titles, World Cups, sell-out concerts – vanish into the magic →

‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary beggar, he was almost luminous. →

The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying: ‘Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m →

Stanley Betts is a talented, 23-year-old video editor and filmmaker. His video, ‘Why Pascal Was Right – Benefits of Being Alone’, has been viewed 1.3 million times on YouTube. Stan began podcasting with a refreshingly →

I don’t doubt that I have lived a privileged and sheltered life, but before Israel’s genocide in Gaza I had never seen a hospital patient on an intravenous drip being burned alive. I didn’t want →

What, then, is the alternative to resisting ‘Evil’? And what on earth might be our motivation for doing something else? Three modern masters of meditation bowl us the same googly from left field. The Indian →

The illegal, unprovoked, full-scale US-UK invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 wrecked the country at the cost of at least one million Iraqi lives. It was waged on the basis of a supposed threat →

Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media ‘spectrum’ continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk and →

In 1859, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that China offered a ‘warning example’ to the West. Yes, Mill sniffed, Chinese culture had benefited from ‘men to whom even the most enlightened European must →