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‘First world problems’ are the trivial issues that we, the more affluent societies, often attribute mock or benign importance to, completely irrelevant to any concept of need or survival. Whether...

I utilise artificial intelligence, AI, sparingly, because I neither trust it nor respect its ability to improve one’s cognitive abilities. Check out this commentator’s ghastly AI fear, and ask...

His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik visits the United Kingdom this week at the specific invitation of King Charles, extending again the mutually cherished relationship between the two countries. On...

Work keeps us busy, doesn’t it? It consumes about a third of every workday, a quarter of our adult lives, and funds our lifestyles, so... Confucius said, “Choose a job you love, and you’ll never...

Books... too big, too heavy, too many pages and words? Yet they may be scholarly, informative, provocative, challenging, or inspirational. Read on... The most prominent here, throughout the Middle...

Staying young is never going to happen! Staying healthy and living well for a little longer? Maybe! With me having a vested interest, you might say, let’s look at what literature, academia, public...

‘The worm has turned,’ and the population of the tiny hamlet of Piddington, in Oxfordshire, has struck a blow in reaction to the Labour government’s plans to house 1,256 asylum-seekers in the...

Let’s look at how Europe is managing the social, political, and economic repercussions of the current asylum-seeker crisis facing the Western world. Much of Europe has lost patience with the flood...

The new, social, technologies are great, aren’t they? Well, if you’re of the current generation, and ‘tech’ has been part of your life while you’re growing up, they are as easy as ‘falling...

In God we trust... in leadership we offer trust. Yet the qualities of leadership are many; so are we asking too much of those whom we choose ‘democratically’ to lead us? It is difficult to sustain...

Two unprecedented incidents during the last week costing ten youth lives, two police lives, and causing life-changing injuries to four others, throw the spotlight once again on social media. First,...

Where now does Cambridge University turn? How can it ever recover the respect its 817 years of quality higher education have earned it? William Shakespeare, scholarly, but not of a university, is...

I am a staunch advocate not only for education, teaching and learning, but for the concept and practical application that education is continuously evolving, not to be restrained by a “this is how...

It wasn’t success that inspired Nadhira al Harthy to challenge Mount Everest, the most daunting of all mountains, but failure. Yet, she succeeded where so few have dared to venture, and in doing so...

An ‘old-fashioned’ definition of an influencer is someone who inspires, guides, or motivates the actions of others by being the best possible example, in their actions or behaviour, and being...

It’s said that you know you have reached middle age when you stop criticising your elders and start criticising the younger generation. Maybe, because they become an easier ‘target.’ “Every...

What’s your fancy? A nice hot bath, in which you can luxuriate and indulge yourself in the evening before bed, or a bracing, wide-awakening shower in the morning? Sometimes I can’t decide......

The Middle East, fraught with the debauchery of international politics, bristling with a humbling diversity of religious factions, tortured by the extremes of inequality of wealth, is a profound...

Who knew that a ‘golden age’ of Arabic/Islamic scholars existed from the ninth to the twelfth centuries in sleep analysis? Five prominent scholar physicians delved where few had gone before and...

This United Kingdom Government has achieved, say its critics, very little; however, the electorate has been heard in one respect, and while youth will disagree, Mums and Dads nationwide will applaud a...