Ambition: sounds a bit cut throat, doesn’t it? You scratch my back, I’ll stab yours. Surely not part of a kinder, gentler world? The images that ambition summons up can be very negative, not least in the world of work. You know the script:  the hard faced executive,

Sometimes I wonder if there has ever been a more comprehensively cited emotion than hope. Possibly there has, but hope is certainly a major contender, covering a vast situational spectrum. For instance, hope can arise in pretty banal circumstances, such as wanting the 65 bus to turn up