Sentencing the woman to life imprisonment, the presiding judge, according to the Independent, said: “The plain facts of the matter is that you have taken the lives of two vulnerable and defenceless babies.” For a woman who has lost her two babies in an appalling turn of fate, what could be a more crushing andContinue reading “An uncertain future”
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Little White Lies
I value my freedoms. Perhaps most valued is the freedom to enjoy a degree of privacy in living my own life without undue interference. But of course this is a negotiated position – weighing your freedoms against mine and then exercising the privilege with due consideration for others’. Equitable coexistence demands compromise, pact and praxisContinue reading “Little White Lies”
A recent sense of dismay
I was about to embark on this when Covid intervened and for the moment it just didn’t feel like the right time. However, on reflection I don’t suppose these episodes do much more than shift the scenery. Despite such interventions and for all our apparent progress, it’s clear fundamental behaviours remain stubbornly unreconstituted. How elseContinue reading “A recent sense of dismay”
Outing The Pathology 