Recently I saw an article on Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, and his interest in the classics and especially in the Roman Emperor Augustus, and I have to admit it aroused my curiosity. Before I read the article, I wondered whether Zuckerberg was like many other CEOs who hold the story “Odyssey”, as a […]
The ‘Backstop’ and why it is important
Watching both the BBC news and Sky news the term ‘backstop’ has been discussed practically every night over the last week. Of course, this is referring to the current Brexit negotiations. The term ‘backstop’ has been defined as “a thing placed at the rear of something as a barrier or support”. In December […]
Is the term ‘Nationalism’ understood differently today?
A former colleague of mine draws a distinction between his admiration for the term ‘patriotism’ and his disdain for that of ‘nationalism’. As I had always seen the terms as synonymous, this used to jar a little on me. His message to me always seemed to echo the frequently repeated phrase, “patriotism ‘good’ and nationalism […]
