An elderly widow living in Somerset, with whom this week I sought to commiserate about her loneliness, brushed aside my sympathy. John F Kennedy wrote a book entitled Profiles in Courage. Most of us change our minds about lots of things between cradle and grave. A significant shift in my own perception concerns the meaning of courage. I grew up in a household in which physical bravery was esteemed by the

Source: The Times January 02, 2021 00:00 UTC