I never comment on newspaper opinion pieces or columns.

I barely reply to tweets.

I think it’s the pressure in opening yourself up to a world of pain.

Once you don the proverbial commentary gloves and casually throw a jab or joust you have to be prepared to take whatever comes swinging back your way.

It’s like street fighting. Anything goes.

When the Titanic left the Harland & Wollf shipyard in Belfast and entered the choppy Irish sea for the first time on 2, April 1912, Thomas Andrew, the chief naval architect, had no doubt in his mind it would pass its trials and be declared seaworthy. After all, rumours were floating around for months before its arrival in Southampton that it was the ship that was unsinkable.

For most young adults, growing up in the church presents a shared fear of being single. I believe this feeling is more intense than for those who likely never I Never Kissed Dating Goodbye grew up in the church.

I recently read an article in the Guardian about a journalist who set himself a challenge of not reading any headlines in the news for a month. The notion of whether it would make him feel better about the world?