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 …
October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 Me.Here.Now Me… here… now. It’s a simple arrival and really, what could be easier? Well, climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops, for …
October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 Gaza Somewhere, in the smoke and rubble, is sanity – though well-hidden. Somewhere someone is quietly reminding us, ‘When the children …
October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Those melting shadows Newsletter: October 2023 Dear web friend Greetings again and it’s a while since I last wrote, which has given you …
October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 Great Opening Lines Amazon recently ran a ‘best opening lines’ competition among its readers. They had to name their favourite opening line from …
September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 When we speak of love, of what do we speak? When we speak of love, of what do we speak? What do you think or feel love means? It has …
August 7, 2023September 15, 2023 My evening at A&E ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.’ Or, as the A&E sign put it on Saturday night, ‘Expect to wait …
July 26, 2023August 23, 2023 This mindful day I am writing this blog I am wondering about the next line It’s good to touch base with what I …
July 19, 2023 The Victim/Bully complex The Victim/Bully is a well-known figure in politics, in the office, in the church and in the home. They can …
July 18, 2023 Are you an invented story? There are many great and wonderful inventions in the world, but this isn’t one of them, it really isn’t. And …
