Another war between Israel and the Jews on one side, and various Palestinian and Muslim groups on the other. Is there any way to peace? ...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is perhaps the most famous history book ever written. All empires decline, either gracefully or...

The BBC News recently reported the success of scientists at CERN in making and storing anti-matter. In the world as we know it, the...

This is the way that David Bennett now describes himself. I was recently recommended his book "A War of Loves." I found it a liberating...

We have lived in this first-floor flat for over 10 years. The flats are built along two sides of open space, with a large lawn, hedges,...

Chris Packham, at the moment one of the BBC's darlings, is prophesying that the planet will heat up to the point where human life can no...

I may be the odd one out, but what I feel for Lucy Letby is only pity. I do not overlook the grief and pain that she has inflicted on...

For some months now I have been struggling with what many will know is the stressful business of buying and selling property. It seemed...

A recurring feature in the News these days is people complaining that someone has subjected them in the past to inappropriate or...

Barely a day goes by without some item of the News featuring an individual or a group seeking justice for some injury or loss from the...

What have we come to when senior doctors, earning £100,000 a year, care more about their pay than their patients? Suppose we all stand...

Chris Packham, apparently, has just had to have three months off work, suffering with ‘eco-anxiety’. He is not the only one. So are the...

Sport dominates the schedules of the broadcasters at the moment. Indeed, if you are not interested in tennis, it is almost impossible to...

It is strange that both the arrival of the HMT Windrush and the establishment of the National Health Service should have coincided in the...

I am having to sit and let the world go by at the moment. Not something I find easy, but good for me, I guess. Sunday a week ago, I had...

It is said that the younger generation suffer from a chronic fear of the future. The commonest form is the fear of Climate Change and...

I was recently recommended a novel by Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March. Roth was a Jew born in 1894 in what is now Western Ukraine, but...

I was reading recently about an initiative in Central Asia to help Christians to argue the case for Christianity against Islam. It seemed...

Like many others, my wife and I give to Barnabas Aid, one of the organisations that support persecuted Christians throughout the world. ...

Sometimes I wonder why I write this blog? It is because it makes me think: put into words my impressions and feelings about things as...