If you think personal finance is just about investment returns you’ve missed the point. Today’s focus on transactions and investment returns has blighted the relationship between money and life. In this wide-ranging, personal...
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Reviews ‘Quiet’ – in praise of introversion, a manifesto for calm and quiet in a...
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Reviews Serious book progress – MS now with publisher! At last, at last, at last. I’ve...
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Reviews ‘The Passage’ – never walk in the woods without fear again! So, now we...
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The 2014 Ampleforth Lourdes Pilgrimage has just ended and I returned to Yorkshire last Friday...
Read MoreLourdes. Is it just hocus pocus or something so profound and inexplicable it defies logic? It is over 40 years since I last went to Lourdes with the Ampleforth Hospitalite and I look forward with some trepidation to returning...
Read MoreSo, another academic year draws to close. I find the academic cycle almost as dynamic as the natural cycle of the seasons, with its power to reflect change in our children much as the seasons reflect change in the natural world....
Read More“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise” William Blake, (quoted often by George Kinder) Clinging onto thoughts or...
Read MoreThought for Today – Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds Yesterday a conference on Inclusive Capitalism was held at the Mansion House in London with eminent speakers such as Bill Clinton, Governor of the Bank of England...
Read MoreGood to see my old school is flourishing! The core values that the Proc refers to in the video are attentiveness, hospitality, respect, integrity, stewardship, and equilibrium. Seems an appropriate code for today’s...
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