The Human Heart Likes A Little Disorder

So The News That Divorced Fathers Are To Be Denied A Legal Right To A Relationship With Their Children, In The Long Overdue Review Of Family Law Published This Week, Fills Me With Horror And Despair.

An Adversarial Family Law System Raises The Stakes Unnecessarily High, Exacerbates The Antagonism Of The Couples Concerned, And Is Directly Responsible For Making It Impossible For Couples Who Would Otherwise Have Reconciled To Do So.

Love Itself Is What Is Left Over When Being "in Love" Has Burned Away, And This Is Both An Art And A Fortunate Accident.

The De Bernières Were Very Military. I Broke The Military Tradition But I Was Terribly Proud Of My Father Being A Soldier.

In Deference To Such Spectacular Carnage It Is Perhaps Perverse To Dwell Upon One Person's Death, But We Are Creatures So Constituted That The Passing Of One Friend Or One Acquaintance Has A Profounder Effect That That Of 100,000 Strangers. If There Is Any Metaphorical Truth In The Jewish Proverb That He Who Saves One Life Saves The Whole World, Then There Is Equal Metaphorical Truth In The Proposition That When One Person Dies, The Whole World Dies With Them.