Not many people do empathy. I mean the Full Empathy, where you put yourself as completely as possible in the skull of someone else and try to see the world from their point of view. I’ve been driven to this notion of empathy recently by the small matter of James Brokenshire, British Secretary of State […]
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How to beat the blues
You know those days. The ones where the flavour of life has been sucked away, when dark clouds loom, when you wonder what the point was in getting out of bed in the first place. I’m pleased to report that those are rare occurrences with me. But when they do happen, I like to read […]
James Brokenshire and Gaelic games
OK – hands up if you have always seen James Brokenshire and the British Secretaries of State who preceded him here as honest brokers, referees between the two warring factions in the north of Ireland? You, sir? Ah – you were just scratching your ear. All right. Nobody saw Mr Brokenshire or the others as […]