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This week I read about graduates spending thousands of pounds on training so that they can beat emotion scanning robots used by City firms to filter candidates. Twenty minute interviews are [...]

As many of you who have completed training with me recently will know, I have been writing a book. It has been a long time in gestation and has taken two years to physically write. Today I have [...]

How much of what happens in our lives is driven by random chance occurrences, how much is pre-determined, and how much do we control things ourselves? We all like to think that we have freewill [...]

Well what a curious few weeks we have had. Is peace about to break out on the Korean peninsula? Has the unconventional Donald Trump secured a foreign affairs triumph that eluded his slick [...]

I believe that people are at their happiest when they are able to follow their passion in life. If you do for your career the thing that you are most interested in, then you will not work day in [...]

With a blast of freezing air, wrapped in a blanket of snow, winter’s final act is to shove us forward into spring, chilled and chastened. But do not blame winter, this is what winter does, this [...]

I have started to see some new faces at the gym recently. New Year is not that far behind us, and I assumed this was people who made New Year’s resolutions to get fit or to lose weight. I asked [...]

Three is seen as a significant, or even lucky number by some people. Do good things, or bad things in life come to you in threes? It is said that, if you ever want to emphasise a point, then [...]

A few months ago I wrote a piece called Earth Life School. In it I was asking you to look at challenging circumstances from a different perspective, one in which life is about service to others [...]

One hundred years ago, on the 25th October 1917 Red Guards, foot soldiers of the Bolsheviks, stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd (modern day St Petersburg), to unseat the Russian Provisional [...]