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It is also important to remember that good listeners also need to be heard. Too often in friendships the good listener is always cast in that role and it never gets reciprocated. This leads to unbalanced relationships and is a drain on the person who...

Build the alternative, ban the car. We can have car free town and city centres throughout the country if we do one thing and that is to stop thinking walking and cycling will replace the car. Take Bristol as an example. For years Bristol city councils...

Ultimately, everything comes down to happiness and suffering. The utilitarians were right. If you ask someone “why ought you to do this?”, they will almost always eventually reach the point of saying “because it increases happiness or reduces suffering”....

Many 1960s buildings are really great but feel intimidating because at street level they were designed to interact with cars and not people. An example is the National Theatre, which when refurbished removed car access and is now an inviting building....

Taking back control Taking back control from a succession of Conservative governments which have no mandate in Scotland is a prize worthy of a great deal of sacrifice. Especiallly when so many of the world's most successful countries have similar populations...

There was a Scottish soldier that had been in Dunkirk in 1940 and was one of the soldiers left behind after the evacuation. He was captured by the Germans and after a fair bit of toing and froing he ended up on a farm on the Baltic where he spent nearly...

A few years ago in Germany you could buy 12 bottles of beer in a crate for 8 euros. Once you’d drunk the beer you handed back the crate and empty bottles and got 3 euros back - the bottles were washed and reused. A far better approach to recycling than...

Infanticide and cannibalism are common throughout the animal kingdom, as a means of population control but these multiple seal deaths, recorded around the whole of the North Atlantic coastlines, primarily in Canada, suggest something more sinister.........

Happiness is putting a bird feeder up and watching the birds and squirrels gathering round it to feed. Joy is watching a squirrel hanging upside down while eating from the feeder . Ecstasy is when they fall off.

One day last year we had no Foxgloves, the next day we did. Like the Triffids, as one got to about 5ft tall - and at the start I thought to remove them, but the bees were all over them and at the end of the Summer last year we had about 10 of them. They...

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