Unauthorised Leaks To A Journalist, And The IPCC

January 11, 2012

The Guardian reports today that a former Scotland Yard officer has been arrested over allegations of unauthorised leaks to a journalist. What is interesting is that the ex-policeman was arrested by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and not by the police themselves. The article in the Guardian explains that that IPCC have powers of [...]

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When The Word ‘Ambience’ Was Not Part Of The English Language

January 7, 2012

We went to see an exhibition of the paintings of the Scottish ‘colourist’ John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) today at the Hunterian Gallery which is part of Glasgow University. I was not that taken with Fergusson’s paintings. I don’t think he found his style and he seemed lost in trying to find it. I suspect he [...]

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Take Out The Garbage

January 1, 2012

There’s nothing worse that getting too big for your boots, thought Esther when her husband qualified as a rabbi. He was young and full of himself, despite what he had learned or was supposed to have learned about humility. “Please take out the garbage,” she had asked him. “I can’t take out the garbage any [...]

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A Night Visit In The San Blas Islands

December 29, 2011

Some years ago I stayed a night as a paying guest in a house on the San Blas Islands. The San Blas Islands are a group of semi-autonomous islands off the coast of Panama. So, I had part of a room and it was curtained off from another part where one of the members of [...]

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Freedom And Acceptance

December 29, 2011

I read The Revolution Will Be Digitised by Heather Brooke recently. It’s about freedom, democracy, control, and privacy in the digital age. Before that I read The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. It’s Hoffer’s observations about why people join mass movements, whether they are fascist, communist, or religious movements. A phrase that Hoffer used has [...]

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Love And Let Go

December 24, 2011

Learning to accept that things end and cannot be hung on to was one of the most painful experiences I had when I was developing. I mean mentally and physically painful because I kept grasping for something, anything that was permanent and strong and stayed the same. Learning to love and let go is like [...]

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