‘Events, my dear boy, events’ - Harold Macmillan

Apologies for no blog post from Thursday until today. This was due to a number of reasons. It has been many years since there has been such a break.

This blog began in June 2007 with occasional posts, hence the name. Slowly it developed into a daily posting.

The ways of the world are strange, indeed the ways of many people, institutions and organisations are  strange. We can easily be distracted and caught up in disparate events. 

Harold Macmillan was once asked what the most troubling problem of his Prime Ministership was. ‘Events, my dear boy, events,’ was his reply.

Derek Scally’s 'The Best Catholics in the World' is an excellent book. First published in 2021.

The book throws light on the Irish psyche and is most respectfully written. His book is about events.

Scally is The Irish Times correspondent in Berlin and has lived in the German capital for many years.