Posts Tagged ‘independent’


Affluenza

I’m still doing a bit of post-flu coughing and spluttering.  So I note that‘Affluenza’ is suddenly everywhere - the title of psychologist Oliver James’ new book.  Affluenza is described as ‘‘a contagious, middle-class virus causing depression, anxiety, addiction and ennui’
I suppose that kind of thinking is a natural part of ‘the times that are in [...]

Saturday night fever

My Independent today carries a ‘Thou shalt not pinch sermons from the Internet’ piece about the tendency of young Catholic priests to download and read sermons as if their own. Can this be true? Are people really stupid enough to do this? I can’t bear to read my own old sermons - [...]