365 new days, 365 new chances


As Churchill once said: ‘... Here’s to a year of toil – a year of struggle and peril.... May we all come through safe and with honour.’

WHEN I was younger, I simply loved reading. I still do even though work does not leave much time for it these days.

I especially love history. Nothing teaches us more about society and how civilisations rise and fall like history. As we turn the page to 2020, the events of the months and days leading to it reminded me of what one of the great men of history said.

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