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By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Whenever you hear that a Committee has been set up, reach for your worry beads. The overwhelming majority of Committees simply dilute the …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you can, every now and then it is good to escape the reality which you have settled into. Of course, youth is the time …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ian On Sunday
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In any given situation we assume that people, including ourselves, will act sensibly. But that is not an assumption on which we …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Think of libraries! There are all kinds and degrees from the smallest village library to the great libraries of the world. All in their own …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ian On Sunday
At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry. At seventeen, love-lorn often, I was writing it – very badly, full …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Having retired a couple of years ago after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 8 Comments
Ian On sunday
In 2007 as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ian on Sunday
I cannot escape the terrible feeling that such pitiless cruelty goes beyond brutality and mad violence. An element of pure evil enters the …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ian On Sunday
A man is murdered, a woman beaten and raped, a child horribly abused, a business robbed, a home terrifyingly invaded. None of these …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian on Sunday
What distinguishes human beings more than anything is their use of language. And literature matters profoundly because it is a central example of …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my life. In my close family there were outstanding sportsmen, so ever since I …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun. He creates wonder after wonder. His inventive capacity …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
The extraordinary value in everything
All my life I have had an urge to preserve the extraordinary value of everything that I experience. I think it …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
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Why this glaring discrepancy between prowess in the short versions and generally abject failure in Test cricket? I am anxious to hear an …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Meteors
How is a great poem created? It is a mystery. It is like asking for an explanation of an exquisite square cut by Brian Lara …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian On Sunday
Education is important not simply for the implantation of specific information about specific subjects but, perhaps more importantly, for the passing on of …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Inconsolable loss
Of all the expressions of inconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Ian on Sunday
Experience comes to us not just through our lives but as much, perhaps more as we grow old, through reading. The greatest books …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ian on Sunday
Why should flesh and blood men and women, with feet of clay like anyone else, presume to think for us and act for …
