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How well do you remember the events of 2022? What stood out for you as interesting, important or memorable about the year that ends in a few hours’ time? Well, here is my take on some outstanding events and then…
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Christopher Hitchens once said: ‘Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay’. Most people follow this principle and cling onto the refrain: ‘I could write a book about this or that’, knowing…
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Last December, I posted a short blog wishing everyone a happy 2020. I reflected on 2019 and realised I was lucky to have survived a number of health scares. I declared that no longer would I take life for granted. …
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As the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ is being gradually eased all over the world, we hesitantly emerge from our home-confinement with blinking eyes kitted out with home-made masks, clutching almost-empty sanitizer bottles, sporting bad haircuts that make hairdressers rub their hands in…
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Have you ever wondered why, relatively speaking, there is less airplane failure in mid-air, even if an engine catches fire or some other similar major event? I will tell you at the end of the blog. ‘sweat your asset’, ‘cash…
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Amid the thick fog of isolation, social distancing and inability to resume normal routine, most of us have kept in touch with the outside world by utilising the wonders of technology from the humble Skype to more sophisticated means of…
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Oh how I long for those happy days when all of Europe and most of the world was talking about nothing else but the UK leaving the EU, otherwise known as BREXIT. Here in the UK, Brexit by far was…
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