AIDING OUR BETTER ANGELS
It was only 3 weeks ago. It is hard to believe it was only 3 weeks ago when so much of the world woke to a shock they will never forget, yet one that so, so many wish that they cou
WORDS FAIL
To watch / read / listen to the debates, discourses, digs, documenting, and painful dispatches from campaign offices in this year’s US Presidential election is truly h
PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AWAY
One year ago the image of baby Alan Kurdi washing ashore gripped the world. The desperate quest of his Syrian family for freedom and safety ended up in this tired, overtaken
2016 OLYMPIC HEROES LONG BEFORE THE RIO GAMES BEGAN
To watch the 2016 Olympic Games is to watch magic happen. Day after day, event after event, new records are set, new dreams are realised. Coaches, families, friends and funders che
AS THOUGH SCRIPTING HIS OWN LAST WORDS
One more idealist is now in Heaven. Just a matter of days ago, one of our world’s great men – Michael Elliott – raised his glass for the last time, and then shut
A VOTE VIOLATING VOWS
Just the thought of such a desire is staggering. A nation, part of the world’s greatest union of nations representing one of our generation’s greatest achievements in i
HONOURING THEIR OLYMPIC DREAM
A mosquito. A tiny, seemingly inconsequential flying creature, commonplace across the globe. Simply a prick of a pain in most parts, barring those where Malaria is a very re
WHY WE CRIED THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Why the tears? Why the worldwide wave of shock, and the enduring mourning? Why the news cycle take-over? Why such unedited expressions and unfiltered images of sadness from
HOPE COMES ALIVE IN A HANDSHAKE
Numbing. The feeling was simply numbing. And it was becoming all too familiar. First a high. A high that would carve a line in the history books of the 21st Century. An
A LAST WHISPER BEFORE A LIONESS RESTS
This past week Africa lost one of its magnificent lionesses. A force of nature, a woman of great strength, courage, grace and class, this young and vibrant lioness spent her