Category: Credo

The Festival of Lights that signifies an inextinguishable faith

8th December 2012

What I find fascinating about Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is … Read more

11th November 2012

They may not be poetry or deathless prose, but advertising slogans have given us some of the more memorable phrases … Read more

13th October 2012

What makes some children succeed while others fail? More generally, what drives some people to great achievement while others languish, … Read more

22nd September 2012

Apart from the Paralympics themselves, for me the most moving moment of an extraordinary summer was the BBC film, “The … Read more

18th August 2012

Is leadership possible anymore? That is the provocative question raised by Harvard theorist Barbara Kellerman in her recent book, The … Read more

21st July 2012

There have been some splendid books recently on philosophy as a way of life, among them Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote, … Read more

7th July 2012

The banking scandals, rate fixing and resignations may have a silver lining if they awaken us to a fact about … Read more

23rd June 2012

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we … Read more

28th May 2012

One government is overturned in France, another in Greece, and in Britain the coalition loses votes. These are just the … Read more

14th April 2012

Celebrating Passover, as we’ve just been doing – today is the last day – I’ve been reminded of a very … Read more