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Well, here we are. Who’d have thought it? Certainly not the doom-mongers who are always talking us down. Nor me, I’m used to having very few expectations of them. And yet England has gone and done it. England beat Mexico in its own stadium where the team are never beaten. England won despite excessive heat,…

My friends and I are going through one of those difficult periods. We’re ageing. We’ve aged before, but there’s been something quite cool about it. Childhood, teenage years and then into adulthood. Growing up, leaving home and going out into the big wide world, finding work, marrying, having children – or not – etc. etc….

A GP doctor friend who had a weekly column for a women’s magazine told me how influential his column turned out to be with patients. “Whatever I write about and however obscure,” he told me, “The number of patients who come in the next week believing they have that same condition is far higher than…

I’ve been dealing with a lot of anger recently. Not just my own, but clients too. Then there are my friends, who seem to be falling into all sorts of fights, for reasons about which they have no idea. And, as for the wider population of the UK capital’s population, well, it’s hard to know…

I had a client once who was particularly proud of her determination. She was someone who kept on going come what may. You know the old saying: “If you want something done, ask a busy person”? Well, that was her. She was reliable, contentious and you knew she’d deliver miracles if you only had the…

I’ve recently been urged to read a book telling the story of a mother and her two daughters. The secret the mother has been keeping is revealed to the daughters at the bedside of the dying husband and father. At least that’s what I understand from the publicity “blurb” and what my friend tells me….

Do you remember as a child being afraid of monsters under the bed? Me too. It was scary. If you had reasonably thoughtful and loving parents, you might remember this as only a temporary phase because sooner rather than later you would come to believe your parents’ reassurance that there was nothing there. A little…

Artificial intelligence – AI – is the topic of the moment. It is rumoured to have the potential to be all things to all people. Before long, we are told, we humans will be losing our jobs to AI, which will be far more able and efficient than an ordinary sentient being such as you…