Steven Jones was working at a university in Siberia when his zest for life fell off a cliff. Everything he used to love had lost its flavour and his motivation had evaporated. A colourless mood descended on him, lasting for months.
Steven’s an expert on the late Middle Ages (1100 AD to 1500 AD). Stuck in a Siberian university in the middle of winter, an ancient pastoral tool came to his rescue.
From eight to seven
In the 300s AD, a desert monk, Evagrius Ponticus, set out to analyse the negative workings of his mind and came up with what he called "Eight Generic Thoughts".
France riots: 'A carefully planned event... but from where?'
We were shopping in the centre of Marseilles on Saturday morning when a frightened security guard ran up and said, …