July 10, 2025July 15, 2025 Have we become ungovernable? It could be a new board game called ‘Govern that!’ set in a democratic but bankrupt country facing an ever more uncertain world. Each player is Prime Minister. But who will stay in power? The players must first decide what will be their game plan. There are three choices. 1) One Nation: General health of the nation. 2) Golden Division: Government by demonization and division 3) Power for Power’s Sake: using all means necessary to keep it. Nothing else matters. The first is a generalist approach steeped in compromise but …
June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 The Gospel according to the Garden Before we go to the garden, a verse from a poem that could scarcely be less floral or Monty Don: …
May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Are Christianity and therapy joined at the hip? So, here’s the question: ‘What is the relationship between Christianity and therapy?’ And the answer, of course, will depend on …
July 26, 2022 My brilliant surrender An intruder with a gun breaks into a monastery. He sticks the gun in the belly of a monk who …
July 19, 2022 This picture of my life needs changing Do you have a picture of how your life should be? Does it hang on your wall and do you …
July 13, 2022 Tory leadership – and Locard’s Principle Edmond Locard was a French Forensic Scientist, born in the 19th Century, who gave his name to a law that …
July 6, 2022 Negative emotions Negative emotions govern the world; while virtue operates as an heroic resistance movement. And negative emotions are extremely infectious. On …
July 4, 2022 The thread I was recently pointed towards a poem by the American poet William E Stafford. It’s called ‘The way it is’. …
June 28, 2022 The most damaging form of stress? Regeneration is the first in a trilogy of WW1 novels by Pat Barker. The third in the series, Ghost Road, …
June 21, 2022 Breaking news: The news is breaking me ‘It’s hard to watch the news these days,’ someone said to me recently. ‘There’s so much suffering. And so many …
June 14, 2022 I am not my thoughts, I am not my feelings The truth is, I am not my feelings and I am not my thoughts. This is the truth. Though sometimes …
June 8, 2022 When only the secondary self is offered I have long been grateful to the poet Ted Hughes. Grateful for his poetry; but even more grateful for the …
