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Lord of the dogs

At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country.  He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists.  It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today.   Armando […]

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The bullying bug

I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure.   Steve Latham   This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]

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Care matters

There is a difference between the expressions ‘I don’t mind’ and ‘I don’t care’. The first one might have to do with indifference as acceptance and respect (I do not mind what my neighbour prefers to eat); the second one refers to indifference as lack of engagement (I do not […]