Last week I was engrossed in reading articles about Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party, and her conversation with BBC journalist Amol Rajan. You too may have come across the original interview and the articles that came from it. You can find it on YouTube. Badenoch talked about lots of things. But the… Read more

It’s mid July, a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and I hear on the news this morning that a child has died from measles in the UK. I don’t know if this child was vaccinated, or was not vaccinated because of parental concerns, or could not be vaccinated because of auto-immune challenges.… Read more

Walking through a local park recently, I had my ear buds in and was listening to music – all sorts of music, from secular to sacred, whatever popped up next in my fairly random music library. Eventually I found myself listening to a series of modern worship songs, one after the other. Now they’re great… Read more

Stephen Fry, in conversation with Ann Widdecombe, once famously described the ten commandments as ‘the hysterical believings of a group of desert tribes’. He went on, ‘these desert tribes have stored up more misery for mankind than any other group of people in the history of the planet, and they’re doing it to this day’.… Read more

Are you a Mary or a Martha? We like our binaries don’t we? Heaven or hell? Good or bad? Saint or sinner? Doers or thinkers? In analysis parlance, activists or reflectors? There is on the surface something binary about the Gospel reading; Mary’s like this, Martha is like that – we tend to identify with… Read more