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The Welsh born Third Earl of Russell, Bertrand Russell was much more than an aristocrat, born into wealth and privilege. He was a deeply intellectual student, a polymath, whose search for...

The untoward consequences of the global pandemic continue to haunt us. As adults, we have generally responded with the resilience that age and maturity offer us, and have managed to negotiate our way...

What is it about loss that hurts most? We lose not only who they are, what they are, their voice, their companionship, their reassurance... They are irreplaceable... and it hurts to lose them.What...

The education sector is accelerating, at breakneck pace, its focus on Mathematics, Science and Technology in catering to the research and development needs of future societies. Are we right to focus...

I’ve long been an advocate of the ‘80/20 rule.” Have you never heard of it? It refers to the concept that most things in life, can be attributed to any cause, complaint, or event, by way of an...

So, in the big, big news of this week, America has spoken. Republican Donald Trump’s victory against the Democrat’s late anointed candidate, Kamala Harris, is, despite most analyst’s...

Frenchman Didier Truchot has identified that, “In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater,” so his company sets out to be...

The government, the public and the media rarely think alike, so it has been heartening to see the positive reaction to the recent State Audit Institution Report across the entire diversity of the...

Since time immemorial, art, in the form of paintings, has proven significantly more to societies than the decoration it offers. Aside from anything else, art has always polarised opinion. Just think...

It’s an absolute certainty that none of us, educators, educationalist, or parents, could have foreseen the effects of the global pandemic on pupil’s, now student’s, educational experiences, so...

I’m not certain that we, the ‘ordinary’ folk, the ‘men and women on the street’, the ‘working class’, the populace, the constituents, the ‘bourgeoisie’, the proletariat, the...

I’m not certain that we, the ‘ordinary’ folk, the ‘men and women on the street’, the ‘working class’, the populace, the constituents, the ‘bourgeoisie’, the proletariat, the...

Our mobiles, our cell phones. I can take or leave mine to be honest. But what about you? Are you a prisoner to your phone? Probably... that’s why they are called cell phones.I can hear some of you...

Thinking is over-rated! Well, that’s what I tell many of my English Language and English Literature students.It’s not as bad as it sounds though, as the otherwise blasé statement has a caveat. It...

It’s happened to all of us, hasn’t it? We’re doing something or nothing and get a wee bit distracted... then we forget what it was we were doing. Then, either we think, or someone says,...

“Adrenaline junkies give leisure a bad name,” said a colleague last week, and I had to smile wryly, as while I have known, and seen hundreds, I have rarely felt the need to become one.Taking part...

According to a Professor of History from Columbia University, Adam Tooze, if you are waking up today to the realisation that the weight of the world is on your shoulders, it may not be your...

The poet Carol Rumens tells a story as she writes in ‘The Emigree,’ of the complexities of migrant life that the ordinary person can probably never understand. From a collection by the poet...

They’re here again! That festival of sporting excellence that is the Olympic Games, as for the past fortnight, Paris, France has delivered what we want from our athletes, with excellence,...

Although its origins are not verifiable, the phrase ‘Hope is not a strategy,’ must resonate strongly with all of us as a ‘wake-up’ call, and really, wherever it comes from, we should be...