Monthly Archives: December 2016
2017: WHAT REALLY MATTERS
‘Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies’ Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Who Would Have Thought It? Did you anticipate the extent to which the EU Referendum would cleave into families and friendships in the way that it did, threatening relationships almost to destruction? Indeed, in some cases, destruction occurred. To take just […]
BERLIN ATTACK: TIME TO UNITE THE STATES OF EUROPE?
Here’s how the conversation went. As is the norm these days, the incident occurs – in this case a truck is driven into shoppers at a Christmas market in Berlin – and folk take to social media to observe and comment. Like it, or not, that’s what happens. I popped out of the woodwork and […]
THE BBC: FIGHTING FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION (STILL)
Yesterday, as I was driving through the Highlands, I listened on my radio to the BBC’s midday news programme The World At One (or ‘WATO’ as its known). The programme was being presented by Martha Kearney. By the end of the hour, in my head I had written the following letter to Mr Roger Bolton. […]
Moraymint Chatter 