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Artemis II is about to take us back to the moon, where as noted by Buzz Aldrin in his 1974 memoir, there is a starkness of shadows and the unusually brilliant white, a contrasting white like no white I had ever seen. Armstrong’s brilliant white Upon returning home, Aldrin wrote about staying in bed. When I wasn’t in bed, I sat staring at the television set. If a man reflects at all, it is…

‘Kind’ regards. ‘Best’ as well. But what are regards if not kind and best? Are vitriolic regards a thing? ‘Most’ is needed too, as sincerely isn’t enough, respectfully neither. This sycophant language – or is it language sycophancy? – spouts from all corners. We’re all ‘valued’ customers, appreciated too. Until the card is declined. Then we have a epic problem. Which brings us to Trump’s need to…

My girlfriend saw her ex across the room and was insistent about talking to him alone. I could hear everything they were saying, and then I couldn’t. She was gone when I looked over again. “She had to sort something out with him.” That was the waitress, a once lovely woman with too much mascara. “I hope you have a healthy relationship.” “The lies of love and how this millennia-old myth has kept…

Bullying is the avatar of these ill-tempered days. Whatever the argument – beliefs, politics or sport – the road to take is straight to hell. And while I know that this rage-baiting is all drivel, that people taunt because they’re scared and stupid, they remain an exhausting pain. I was taunted throughout my high school days. Craig Nettie, Adam Moreland and Andrew McAlpine took turns mocking me…