Tilting at Windmills

I wonder whether I am guilty of “tilting at windmills”.

Carpe Diem

There is nothing quite like a funeral to concentrate the mind; “carpe diem” seems such an apt phrase at such a time.

Is it odd that 100 million deaths in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 has received comparatively little attention?

Is everything bad? Is the world a bad place? Are we humans damned and doomed? Is there any good news?

How can people not see what their untrammelled hatred does to themselves and those around them?

John Singer Sargent ranks high in my list of favourite painters.

I have come to question my behaviour when dealing with a pig over the past couple of years. Well, pigs actually.

Why does society have to be so divisive? Why does political posturing have to increase polarization and seek to indoctrinate?

Bishop Michael Curry preached a fine sermon at the wedding today of Prince Harry and beautiful actress Meghan Markle.

Art prices at ‘obscene’ levels as Chinese join high-spending elite says Richard Partington, the Guardian’s economics correspondent.