Set the example, not be it

A Facebook status update shamlessly stolen from my US friend Ian Dickson:- Ok, I think I’ve had enough. I have to institute a zero-tolerance policy on any US political argument that has no obvious merit or serious intelligence behind it. Way too many are spouting vitriol and blaming the current administration for their own problems,…

Never forget September 11th 2001

Today, like many other people across the world, I paused for a minute’s silence at 1.46pm UK time. This was the moment, ten years ago today, when the first hijacked aeroplane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. I remember the moment vividly when the second passenger jet, United Airlines Flight 75, hit…