Five years ago I started to write this blog for London District. The idea was to provide a two or three minute easy read to share...

It’s hard to ignore the main news story this week, so I trust, if the forecast is to be believed, that by the time this is published...

In 1964, Harold Wilson once said, reportedly, ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Last week’s momentous events would seem to confirm...

4th of July. Independence Day in the USA, and the country seems split by several key issues that polarise political and public opinion,...

How does Sir Paul McCartney keep looking so fit and well? Is it the vegetarian diet? Exercise or affluence? Whatever he does, I’d like...

Last week it was turn of gymnastics to find itself in the glare of the safeguarding spotlight. The Whyte review, commissioned by the...

The opening scenes of last night’s new BBC drama series, Sherwood, evoked a whirlwind of memories from 1984. Wherever you stood, or...

The other big story of the last few days was the finale of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp court case in Virginia. The outcome raised...

Depeche Mode were never one of my favourite bands, I’ll admit. I never really got the post punk electronica melange that also seemed to...

In deference to a couple of friends and colleagues, I won’t go into detail about the events of last Sunday afternoon that took place at a...

One Berlin Wall museum – I think there are at least two – seems to play David Bowie’s epic song ‘Heroes’ on a continuous loop at high...

On location this week in deepest Shropshire close by the Welsh border and staying in a Victorian gothic conference centre complete with...

One of the four small rubber feet on the base of my work laptop is not the same size as the others. So as you might stuff a pile of...

Committed to writing each week on a topic that relates to safeguarding, and how the Methodist Church in particular responds to the...

Amidst the horrors of Ukraine, the fallout from Partygate and the Rwandan asylum seeker plan, another news story caught my eye. Sir...

Grouse shooting, fox hunting and parking get more public attention than the abuse of older people according to research published late...

There had to be a way of shoehorning Crystal Palace’s amazing 3-0 win over Arsenal on Monday evening into the blog this week. This may...

In the course of a work conversation the other day, someone asked why a third person felt they had the right to do what they did. It’s a...

Over 60 people met two weeks ago for the first time in two years at the Methodist Safeguarding Conference at Eastwood Hall near...

Did you know that Colchester and Guildford are the most dangerous places in the UK for learner drivers? And that Peterborough and...