I was planning to return this week to a more light-hearted consideration of the prospects of Premier League survival in London SE25 and...

Since last week’s blog with its theme of femicide was published, we have very sadly learnt about the death of Sarah Everard. At the same...

Well, I suppose I should write a comment or two on that interview that’s been hitting the headlines. But I think not. Instead, this is...

So spring sprung at the weekend it seems. A glorious day of sunshine and ambient temperature, at least in SE England. With the road map...

A street sign near where I live tells me that the average council taxpayer’s contribution to safeguarding children in our borough is 43...

Sunday nights of late have involved watching the BBC TV series ‘The Serpent’. It tells the true story (with imagined dialogue) of a...

We are often encouraged to listen for, hear and respond to the voices of those who are seldom heard. But it can sometimes be difficult to...

We had an outbreak of what’s been described as ‘vaccine nationalism’ last weekend. Although the immediate matter between the UK and the...

The other day on my daily walk I met a camel. It’s not every day you come across a camel on a muddy track on the fringes of SW London. ...

This week marks 40 years since a fire in New Cross tragically took the lives of 13 young people. They were celebrating the birthday of...

Right now it’s hard to escape the lockdown and Donald Trump’s last days as president. It’s getting harder to avoid the virus and maybe...

Well this was supposed to be the upbeat new year one, lifting eyes to the sunlit uplands of a less Covid-impacted world. A short-lived...

Since childhood I’ve been fascinated by borders. Early memories include regular train travel up the East Coast mainline to see various...

Are there more lights in the streets this Christmas and have they arrived earlier? Our road is festooned with glittering trees and...

I’m venturing into dangerous territory. Mathematics, for me, is a difficult area, and especially the mysterious world of statistics. I...

So it had to come. I’m writing this with the match between Burnley and Crystal Palace on in the background and at this point the team...

This week is National Safeguarding Adults Week, so this blog provides the script used in a presentation at the Connexional webinar on...

‘Tribute to woman unjustly locked away in asylum after calling vicar a liar’ was the headline of an article in my Sunday paper this week....

We were driving back from the Suffolk coast on Saturday when we learnt about lockdown mark 2. We were relieved that we had been able to...

As ever in this strange year, it’s difficult to know quite where to start another piece about the safeguarding agenda. Our churches and...