I Believe It Is Better To Be

My Father Believed In Toughness, Honesty, Politeness And Being On Time. All Very Important Lessons.

Of Course, I Do Not Regret The Bond Days. I Regret That Sadly Heroes In General Are Depicted With Guns In Their Hands, And To Tell The Truth, I Have Always Hated Guns And What They Represent.

Of Course I Am Frustrated With Regard To Extreme Poverty, To Violence That Never Seems To Cease. Greed Is The Key. It's Easy To Sit In Relative Luxury And Peace And Pontificate On The Subject Of The Third World Debts. Not Many Of Us Are Willing To Give Up Everything We Have. We Can However Give Some, And Millions Of People Do, Governments Do, But There Is So Much More To Be Done.

The Saddest Sight These Days Is The Image Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children Kidnapped And Lured Into Being Child Soldiers From The Age Of Eight.

A Lot Of My Reading Over The Next Few Months Will Be The Works Of Hans Christian Andersen - I Have Been Appointed An Ambassador For The Bicentenary Celebrations Of His Birth Next Year.