No apologies for coming back to this disastrous episode in Britain’s poor international record of the last few years. Britain was an empire. It no longer is. The days of empire may have been glorious or they may have been shabby. In fact, they were both. But they are over. They have been over since…
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You don’t need me to explain to you that some things you ought to do are really difficult to start – and even harder to finish. Preparing for events that you don’t look forward to by making a will, getting your piles of rubbish in order (means, throwing away) to allow for redecoration, making an…
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I am grateful for additional thoughts by Eliza Quek It is impossible to avoid taking sides in the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not in dispute but some people think that Ukraine’s separation from the USSR and her plea to join NATO constituted a provocation worthy of military action. The – now wearisome…
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No this is not the latest Hoppy-Comms App. It is a concern that uneducated comms leadto fakes – even ‘fake fakes’ – and dangerously distorted emotions, generated by excess. Peoplewho want to do you harm excite your anxieties, making you unguarded and vulnerable. Trumpuses the technique all the time and looks like an idiot for…
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Dedicated to the memory of APAC’s Founder Mr Foo See Luan By Eliza Quek, Co-Founder, Terrific Mentors International Pte Ltd Former Chair, Research and First Vice President APAC You cannot read any journal, newspaper or google without coming across AI in the age of IOT (Internet of Things). Generative AI and the speed of technological…
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Dear Cousins and your offspring, friends and neighbours – too many to name each… Your generosity to our family in Britain during WWII was only the first sign of a loving, delightful group of relations in Minnesota, United States. My American mother, Agnes, died at thirty-four, when I was fifteen months old and my sister,…
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The Chinese Premier, Li Qiang, criticised “the politicisation of economic issues” at the Summer Davos. He is right to raise the subject. Economics, in a world where global trade is vital to any semblance of stability, should not become the weapons of cold wars. Starvation is as wicked as nuclear destruction and can become even…
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War is war and its goal is victory. But in the Russia-Ukraine war the goal is world stability. We do not know what the people of Russia want. Their history since the 1917 revolution shows a lost, confused continent of tremendous artistic and mystic talent pushed to and fro between the extremes of power struggle…
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Artificial Intelligence is occupying a place in all our minds. It needs to do so. When you recall how you and your friends were brought up you recognise your dependence on what has gone before. Not simply history but things that have been discovered, invented, created and which you can learn from a book, a…
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Pace got the better of Priorities when they built the Concorde aircraft. I flew in it many times when the service between London and Singapore was operating. It was fast. Eight hours and twenty minutes for a journey that normally took sixteen hours. It was excruciatingly uncomfortable but the sensation of flying supersonically and the…
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