Author: Mark

When I was younger…so much younger than today I knew I was in deep trouble with the black dog but I didn’t seek help. I battled on, fighting an unwinnable…

Regardless of what you think of the coronavirus “pandemic,” the situation has certainly brought some issues into focus. Perhaps one of the most interesting issues that is still floating beneath…

The New York Times recently took time out to ridicule people who questioned the official narrative about Covid-19. I am one of those people and I don’t give a flying…

Diana Spencer is, to my mind, a great enigma. A young girl thrown in at the deepest of deep ends and expected to swim amongst a school of sharks. She…

Clearly Quite Absurd is a very quiet piece from the Deep Purple album Rapture of the Deep. Its concept is simple. Life would be much simpler if we could clear…

There is a lot of doom and gloom being pedalled by most mainstream media outlets about the effects of coronavirus and how long this pandemic may last. A coronavirus cure…

So, this is March madness. Empty supermarket aisles, a toilet paper shortage, politicians slashing regulations and pumping money into the economy like crazy, CEOS resigning en masse, travel basically ceasing,…

Sometimes potential life partners pass each other by with never a backward glance. Time and circumstances don’t create the necessary spark. Other times, the stars align and everything falls into…

I’m staring up incredulously at an earnest young man telling me and the scattered Assange rally “crowd” that the young people of Australia are uniting behind Assange and that revolution…

It’s been almost thirty five years to the day since you left us. Eighteen or so months more since a civil word passed between you and I and the time…