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This photo of two kids from a few days ago in Gaza spoke to me far more than all the photos of bloodshed, funerals, rocket launchers

I have always disliked the question ‘What is your mother tongue?’, as I never know what to answer.

How well do you know what your friends or members of your family do in their jobs? Or, if they have retired, what they did during their work

“Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” Charles J. Moore* I do not wish to claim any sort of clairvoyance or to say ‘we told

The British make small talk by discussing the weather; often the conversation never moves on from this introductory riff. The French,

As a Scot who grew up and spent much of his adult life in England and as a former British diplomat who has worked on European Community

By Stoker Vote Joe, get Bernie? That’s not what the voters signed up to. Certainly not those swing voters who wanted rid of The Donald,...

By Lynda Goetz Many, many years ago when I was still a teenager, I found a quote from Maurice Maeterlinck in a collection of quotes and...

By Dr Jehad Al-Omari My earliest memories, like all children perhaps, comes in flashes with considerable blank periods between them,...

“Less is more” is my second favourite aphorism. In a management training career spanning thirty years, I must have listened to and given