We’re all vulnerable to settling into echo chambers – being happiest reading and listening to those whose opinions we already agree with, even if we know it isn’t good for our mental stimulus. But are we also guilty of falling into a different kind of echo chamber,...
This is the kind of column that will get me into trouble because it expresses an opinion in stark terms. So let me make it clear – it’s expressing how I feel about something. My feeling may not be rational, and I’m very open to discussion about whether what I feel...
As an antidote to the madness of British elections, I found myself at the Wimbledon tennis site today for the annual press conference to announce the prize money and other changes for the fortnight. But while I was there I saw something else which I’d urge all fans of...
Call me a mug, but I always believed Theresa May when she said she never wanted an early general election. Even when she announced that Britain would go to the polls on 8 June, I still got the sense she didn’t really want it, that her hand had somehow been forced. And...
Happy International Women’s Day! What is there not to celebrate in a day designed to showcase what women have done, are doing, and are capable of? Answer: the fact that missing from the picture is one very important element in the welfare of women. When one looks at...
