It was Christmas Eve 1965 and the internationally famous, jazz-inspired singer Tony Bennett was having a miserable...
September 1, 2023
One of the most spectacular and famous victories by the Royal Navy has its anniversary on 1st August. Although now...
July 31, 2023
This is the concluding part of my reflections on the difficulties that only children – whose numbers are on the...
July 1, 2023
The month of June sees the birthday of Sir Paul McCartney. But I’ve been thinking recently more about his fellow...
June 1, 2023
In 2011 the studio of the major Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei was bulldozed by the Communist authorities as a response to...
May 1, 2023
A while back a colleague and his wife took the heroic step of agreeing to re-home a fifteen-year-old cat. Before long...
April 1, 2023
Can anger set us free? ‘Free from what?’ you might ask. Well, from anxiety for starters. There’s a line in the...
March 1, 2023
There’s a powerful sketch of himself done by Francisco Goya around 1826 when he was over eighty years old. It’s a...
February 1, 2023
In part one of this blog I mentioned that many people lack a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives. I touched on...
January 1, 2023
Many people lack a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives. In some cases that can lead to considerable...
December 1, 2022
It’s one of the most astounding acts of heroism of the Second World War and you probably won’t have heard of it. ...
November 1, 2022
What has more water in it than in the whole of England and Wales combined, is deeper in places than the North Sea and,...
October 1, 2022
