Versailles: why world leaders should heed warnings from the fall of the French court
May 31, 2016 12:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Versailles, the new ten-part drama serial about Louis XIV of France, is to begin showing on UK television on BBC Two on June 1. Made by French group Canal Plus to mark the tercentenary of the legendary Sun Kings death in...
Six ways the ancient philosophy of Stoicism can help business entrepreneurs
May 30, 2016 07:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Life
With the increasing swirl of interest around mindfulness, resilience and innovation we cant forget that there are many who have trodden this path before us with important lessons we can borrow. Stoicism is the branch of...
Genius in the garret or member of the guild?
May 30, 2016 04:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
There is an enduring story about writers about artists in any mode and that is what Alex Pheby calls the myth of isolation. This is the trope of the lone genius, shutting themselves away in garret or study or shed to...
Starting college? Here's why you should think about a gap year
May 30, 2016 04:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Malia Obama recently announced that she will take a gap year before attending Harvard University. Historically, American high school graduates have been less likely to take a gap year as compared to their European and...
Sometimes the best medicine for a veteran is the company of another veteran
May 30, 2016 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Life
Many take time on Memorial Day to remember the Americans who have given their lives in service to our country. For veterans and their families, that sentiment of remembrance is felt year round. Many veterans suffer...
It's Remain not Leave that captures the independent spirit of the Reformation
May 27, 2016 16:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Here also we find the intellectual roots of Euroscepticism, he argued, talking of grassroots empowerment and a stubborn commitment to English independence as being of the essence of what happened in the 16th century. Oh...
Bomb scares: can you judge a threat from the voice on the phone?
May 27, 2016 15:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
This week, 85 schools across the UK and US received threatening phone calls from anonymous callers who said that there were bombs inside school buildings. One school in Cambridgeshire was told by the caller that the bomb...