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By Ian McDonald | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
We are lost without the right people
One man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
‘Open the clenched fist of the past’
It happens all the time in small, closely-knit groups – cabinets, party executives, boards of directors, church congregations or …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Enhance your life
It is extremely important that you pay attention to what today’s column says if you wish to live a longer, healthier, more alert …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
Content to be where I am
When I was a child I had as good Christmases as any child ever had – the love of parents …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, December 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
National accounting and real life
Governments everywhere, quite naturally, make every effort to portray the state of the nation in the best possible light. How does …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
Devil-take-the-hindmost
People tell me that an article I wrote some time ago continues to “circulate widely on the internet.” I have no real idea exactly what …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 0 Comments
The irrelevance of sport?
A couple of weeks ago I explained in a column what an important part sport has played, and very much continues to …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 0 Comments
The vindication of Hypatia
Currently its most venerable member, I am delighted to learn that the Georgetown Club has at last burst gloriously into, let us …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 4 Comments
Teaching beyond the ordinary run of our lives
When we are young, if we are lucky, we meet a person who opens our minds to the …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 5 Comments
The quiet sport
Not many people guess right when asked “What is the most popular sport in the world?” The irony is that, more than any …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments
The complex value of the word
I love poetry. It is the quiet passion of my life. When I was a child my mother read me …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 3 Comments
Home is a lovely place
In Canada it is just getting cool and the trees are filling with greenish gold and a darkening red as the …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
Greed brings down a nation
In the 1987 film “Wall Street”, ruthless stock trader Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, famously declared “Greed is Good.” It …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
Victory at all costs?
An old sporting argument – good for many lovely hours of intense discussion and fervent discussion – surfaces every now and then. …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
A bigger threat than terror
We have to look forward to a long and terrible age of increasing and fearsome devastation. I am sorry to be …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | 6 Comments
The whole point is not to talk or think
I avoid as far as I can any party, club, reception or event when or where rap …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
Unsung heroes
In the last month I have enjoyed watching the Olympics from majestic opening to colourful and tumultuous closing and between those spectacular bookends have …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
A festival Caricom badly needed
Carifesta X was a splendid and significant success. There were dropped catches, fumbles in the field, times of anxiety, periods of …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 0 Comments
Illth
Absurdly, we still take for granted that Gross Domestic Product is an accurate measure of success and well-being in a nation, so that if GDP …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 0 Comments
Put poetry on the buses
I favour the reintroduction of public transportation. A system of maxi-buses on the roads, well-managed and subsidized with some of the …
