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