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‘We stand at the fulcrum of events.’

Bide your time: Damian Entwistle’s Thought for the Week

‘We stand at the fulcrum of events.’

by Damian Entwistle 7th February 2025

Our word for time comes from the Latin, tempus, but we retain echoes of an older Greek word, kronos, which we bring out for particular purposes; we see it ‘chronometer’, and ‘chronology’.