The Favour of a Moment

What is too familiar is to be fought. There are those that crave the familiar, and become enthusiastic at its every appearance. The chant....

Friedrich Schiller wrote a poem titled, 'The Favour of the Moment'. Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore; Let our son...

In the workplace, as an ‘employee’ (a terrible way to have to describe oneself) you will encounter - those who seek to assert authority (e...

One of the ugliest personality traits in a human being is one that constantly assigns blame to another, or makes excuses for the things they...

Yet another stupid conversation I had to listen to on the train between Watford and Euston. This time a guy telling someone that “the compa...

The Monkey When asked "Who are you?" the monkey replies by telling stories of encounters he has had. Which is not an untrue resp...

When undertaking some archive work with the psychoanalyst Malcolm Pines, I came across a photograph of cricketers, standing for a group por...