Like many people I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the levels of stress generated in the community through the politics of fear. The Swine Flu is a good example of this where news reporting and Government announcements conveyed the impression that this was the pandemic we had to have and that millions of us would [...]

A recent series of Hollywood movies has reminded us that it is possible for an asteriod the size of the Fijian Islands to collide with Planet Earth and extinguish all life. Sometime in the future this could happen. Thinking about this does not stress me because the likelihood of this happening is so remote that [...]

I’m not referring to people who are locked up but those who are locked within themselves because of fear. As far as I can read from history the world has always been a fearful place.  It is also a place of amazing possibilities and wonders. Why lock yourself away in your own stress and fear [...]