We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King has provided us with so many challenging statements and in them so much truth. The trouble we have is that we continue to associate them with a single issue. An American Issue. We do not see their value for a bigger concern.

Are the trappings too much?

Sometimes we add just a little bit too much to our life and what we think makes us “better” in fact may not be the case …

Giving What We Can

Tony Ord, an Oxford academic, has formed a society called Giving What We Can aimed at encouraging individuals to donate at least 10% of their earned income to what he calls “efficient charities”. This article takes a look at the wider implications of Tony’s society.

Economic Recovery – Are the real indicators pants?

It appears that the real economic indicators for Alan Greenspan fall to a lower order of sophistication than we realise – it may be the underwear market that marks out the state of consumer confidence. Mr Greenspan suggests, with some sensible reasoning, that particularly men’s underwear is a key indicator of the state of the recession. Yet is it surprising that the smalls, the hidden things, are perhaps the most telling when it comes to addressing the major issues that we face? [...]