The virus has been a painful lesson in human limitations
June 2, 2020
Where will we be by the time you read this? Emotionally speaking: will the collective mood be up or down? It’s all about expectation...
Andrew M Brown
TikTok killed the nursery rhyme
March 12, 2020
When I was a little boy I washed my mammy’s dishes; I put my finger in my eye, And pulled out golden fishes. Enjoyably...
The old approach to confirmation isn’t working
January 16, 2020
It is hazardous to write about children because you risk condescending, or making fun of them in that “kids say the funniest things” way...
The joys of Boxing Day football
December 19, 2019
I have no idea what we will give our children for Christmas, but I know what they have given me over the years –...
Giving baddies a good send-off
November 14, 2019
Enough doom and gloom, says Billy Connolly, quoted in the London Evening Standard: he thinks the news needs cheering up. “Move obituaries from the...
Systems of oppression? We baldies know all about that
October 3, 2019
Compare and contrast. On the one hand, you have the eternal verities contained in the Bible – like the past two Sundays’ Mass readings,...
Diary: The radio presenter who makes the early hours bearable
September 5, 2019
Since the Brexit vote I’ve found that LBC talk radio has everything that refugees from the BBC’s boring Radio 4 Today programme could want....
I dreaded our camping holiday. How wrong I was
August 22, 2019
“We don’t do camping,” said a pompous acquaintance when I explained that our summer holiday this year was going to be a fortnight in...
‘Feelings are of little account’: the wisdom of Sister Mary David
July 25, 2019
Are you interested in how a funny, sporty, charismatic, well-read, modern woman might want to spend the rest of her life shut up in...
Why doesn’t anybody look old anymore?
June 20, 2019
Thoughts of ageing press into my mind as I approach 50. University contemporaries are starting to fall ill. High blood pressure, hernia, even a...
What our prisons say about us
May 16, 2019
Winston Churchill said that “the mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the...
Kraków is a magical city – especially now the stag parties have gone elsewhere
April 18, 2019
By some sort of miracle Kraków, which was Poland’s capital city in the Middle Ages, is immaculately preserved. The Nazis’ tanks and bombs ignored...
The virus has been a painful lesson in human limitations
June 2, 2020
Where will we be by the time you read this? Emotionally speaking: will the collective mood be up or down? It’s all about expectation...
TikTok killed the nursery rhyme
March 12, 2020
When I was a little boy I washed my mammy’s dishes; I put my finger in my eye, And pulled out golden fishes. Enjoyably...
The old approach to confirmation isn’t working
January 16, 2020
It is hazardous to write about children because you risk condescending, or making fun of them in that “kids say the funniest things” way...
The joys of Boxing Day football
December 19, 2019
I have no idea what we will give our children for Christmas, but I know what they have given me over the years –...
Giving baddies a good send-off
November 14, 2019
Enough doom and gloom, says Billy Connolly, quoted in the London Evening Standard: he thinks the news needs cheering up. “Move obituaries from the...
Systems of oppression? We baldies know all about that
October 3, 2019
Compare and contrast. On the one hand, you have the eternal verities contained in the Bible – like the past two Sundays’ Mass readings,...
Diary: The radio presenter who makes the early hours bearable
September 5, 2019
Since the Brexit vote I’ve found that LBC talk radio has everything that refugees from the BBC’s boring Radio 4 Today programme could want....
I dreaded our camping holiday. How wrong I was
August 22, 2019
“We don’t do camping,” said a pompous acquaintance when I explained that our summer holiday this year was going to be a fortnight in...
‘Feelings are of little account’: the wisdom of Sister Mary David
July 25, 2019
Are you interested in how a funny, sporty, charismatic, well-read, modern woman might want to spend the rest of her life shut up in...
Why doesn’t anybody look old anymore?
June 20, 2019
Thoughts of ageing press into my mind as I approach 50. University contemporaries are starting to fall ill. High blood pressure, hernia, even a...
What our prisons say about us
May 16, 2019
Winston Churchill said that “the mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the...
Kraków is a magical city – especially now the stag parties have gone elsewhere
April 18, 2019
By some sort of miracle Kraków, which was Poland’s capital city in the Middle Ages, is immaculately preserved. The Nazis’ tanks and bombs ignored...
