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What a privilege

…educate three boys (my sister went to a different private school) in failing to inculcate in me even a minuscule speck of self-respect. By the forth year of senior school…

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Shared mailbox

…of it. Of course, I come from Eyeteeland, where service management tools are standard. Could we envisage managing a complex workload simply by replying and forwarding emails all over the…

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Arise

…I think the reason he held onto my portfolio was because it gave him an interest, away from the increasing drudgery of service management. Our positive working relationship was rather…

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Petty

…want from the school management team is a focus on providing a quality education to our children: to focus on trying to recruit permanent staff, reduce the reliance on supply…

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Tradeoffs

…actual use. The device may be a sight to behold, oozing premium quality, with its edge to edge screen, convertible form factor, excellent port selection, and lightweight design. But of…

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A religion of reform

…long or short a life span might be, its quality, by the grace of God, is determined from that point when one asserts his or her human faculties of thought…

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Encountering Christian-Muslim dialogue for the first time eight years ago was naturally a culture shock. Every young and enthusiastic activist owned a grainy, yellowy video with poor quality sound of…

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Craftsmen

…we were raised on. You want a good quality of life, we were told, you go to university, then obtain a white collar job. But no, these craftsmen have the…

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To fly away

…from Rize has been filled with 85 million tonnes of rock, upon which a 3000 metre long runway has been constructed, along with all the associated facilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZVXmEtkT4 There are,…

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To revert to silence

…attacks are just a daily reality you must get used to. Yet there was plenty more to worry me. Months ago, I responded by setting my blog to private, but…

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Threads

Some threads to ponder. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1248939530939490304.html threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249996541424816128.html twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1246866119597621248 And further reading. There’s life in the old dog yet: let no-one be abandoned to Covid-19 Why herd immunity will not save us…

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I cannot promise

edition, ‘A deserter in London tells Francoise Sergent of the army’s role in the killings’: One evening last June his squad went on a mission. ‘They injected us with something,…

edition, ‘A deserter in London tells Francoise Sergent of the army’s role in the killings’: One evening last June his squad went on a mission. ‘They injected us with something,…

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Radicalisation

It isn’t actually difficult to appreciate how radicalisation occurs. Last night I had the misfortune of deciding to watch the previous evening’s edition of Newsnight on the web and was…

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Returning to the source

…Penguin Classic edition entitled, The Koran, translated by N J Dawood. An overseas student from Pakistan did not approve, because Mr Dawood was Jewish, but I worked my way through…

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…who acquires rights from an African publisher to make a full acknowledgement of this fact in his own edition. The practice will not only expose and promote the African publisher…

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