In Yiddish there is a distinction between kholem, the dream that occurs when we sleep, and troym which is the dream as ideal (“I have a dream”). In politics there is a distinction between policies that occur when the politician espousing them is asleep, […]

I like to spot paradoxes or at least ambivalences in my thinking. One that cropped up today was quite significant because if I knew that unless I wrote it down it would vaporise and float away. As I was just then thinking about this […]

It was not my intention to set up a blog – it sort of got thrust upon me. But now it’s here I might as well make good use of it. I have a grasshopper mind. I set out with the intention, and often […]