Remember Monica?Whilst one would not want to speak ill of the dead or jump unnecessarily on anyone’s grave, there is something about Jeffrey Archer’s death earlier this month that requires a memori…

The Green Party have declared “Zionism is racism.”[1] It’s a simple, maybe even simplistic, sentence – for the party it may be a death sentence. They are a party tearing themselves apart over…

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He’s a tinpot fascist leading a large, national gaggle.A maverick,  a great speaker, very much an establishment figure, duping poor folks into thinking he theirs when, in fact, he’s massively funde…

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I was a teenager. The return of Jesus Christ to Earth had just taken place, whisking all the Christians away, with me left behind to face the Antichrist, tattooing 666 on our foreheads, and tribula…

People tend not to oppose assisted dying in principle but rather on its practical outworking. The objections paint pictures of society that may offer a cause for reflection. Nure comforting patient…

Odysseus returns, wiser. Does Christian theology? Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” does cinematic justice to Homer’s bleak depiction of Hades, a grim afterlife imbued with desolation.. In Homer’s epic…

It would appear I am being scraped.I am told that a sudden uptick of interest in one’s blog of the sort I’m having does not mean 300 people in China really want to know more about the Church of Eng…

Has anybody else noticed something about the Foreign Secretary’s statements on the situation in Palestine? Specifically, the current settler takeover in the West Bank?Take a good look. You can read…

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Lenny Bruce,who died 60 years ago, on 3rd August 1966, pioneered “sick” humour. This was the description applied to his work, which involved taking comedy to the edges of acceptability. Elements of…

Look at this… It was in response to a cracking 202 speech by the then Mayor, Burnham, that the wife of designer Stanley Chow suggested “You should draw Andy.” Chow took up the task, using Ado…

In “Monster Raving Loony,” James Graham, of “Dear England”, “Quiz”, “Ink” and other plays capturing the national mood, cleverly depicted the habitual joke candidate Lord David Sutch. through the le…

The Church of England will chat about Christian Nationalism. It just might not say so. On Sunday, General Synod will discuss “Promoting Unity in Our Nation” –  a useful paper exploring the de…

Midsummer beckons. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was Shakespeare’s wildest dream, and it concludes with one of his most beautiful pieces of writing. Framed by the enforced marriage of Duke Theseus to…

Midsummer beckons. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was Shakespeare’s wildest dream, and it concludes with one of his most beautiful pieces of writing. Framed by the enforced marriage of Duke Theseus to…

We never go and get year 6 back.We let go. Anyone who works with schools will experience something of a focus on leavers, at the end of the year.For a class teacher this is the time to hand them on…

Enters. Looks round. Vomits. Oh fffuuuuu…..[More vomit] Dan! Look!!! Where’s my phone? Ruth! Love! What do you think you’re doing? Calling the police, what do you think I’m doing…. Hey, Dan. Give m…

Enters. Looks round. Vomits. Oh fffuuuuu…..[More vomit] Dan! Look!!! Where’s my phone? Ruth! Love! What do you think you’re doing? Calling the police, what do you think I’m doing…. Hey, Dan. Give m…

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“You tell him.”“No. You tell him.”The whispers around the Labour leader sound more like the niceties of pointing out he’s got a bit of bogey on his nostril flare, rather than the business of runnin…

Tomorrow we gather at long last around the naked organist on the promenade at Colwyn Bay, a cheeky nude beloved of all who gather. The naked organist character, was a recurring feature of the telev…

Tomorrow we gather at long last around the naked organist on the promenade at Colwyn Bay, a cheeky nude beloved of all who gather. The naked organist character, was a recurring feature of the telev…

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I hadn’t expected to see that smile.It was 2014 and our church was hosting a day with the writer and inspiration, Dave Tomlinson, guiding us through thinking about God. In a surprise move, he began…

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It is with earnest urgency that I advise you to click on this link to the National Theatre’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest”, available until 18th March. One of the greatest comedy’…

The world is ending, very soon, and I have an email to prove it.I receive such emails quite regularly – as spam goes, these ones are ripe.Such junk discloses some special prophecy of end-time…

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One phrase springs to mind… The Church of England is back in the news and, once again it’s the institutional homophobia. This week, the Church’s governing Synod met in London and finally aban…

I’m proud of my Great Aunty Em and the story of her getting so involved in her job, she’d stop doing it. Em was a lovely, musical woman. In her youth she had done one of the most creative jobs the …

The key to the advice is that it is all about thought control… In the early days of mobile phones I was leaving work when I got a text from my partner: “Please get some instant tea on the way…

“Who’s there?”The first line of “Hamlet”, and he’s everywhere: Riz Ahmed’s movie out in February, National Theatre Live screening their recent production. On top of that there’s the brilliant “Hamn…

That was 2025, a year that offered up extreme right wingers being waved through by floundering national leadership. Racism, xenophobia and the rise of the fascist fringe have continued to rear thei…

Or: why we maybe need to retire the ‘Innkeeper’ character from Nativity plays. It was my first visit to Al Aroub, a beautiful Palestinian village that is also, historically, a refugee c…

We’re told it’s a dilemma.The BBC claim that the rise in interest from those who attended far-right events such as Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ has“left the Church of England … grappling wi…

Hollywood came to the Vatican, yesterday, with a star-studded reception hosted by the Pope, for the great and the good from the movie industry. We can now reveal some of what went on. The Pope arri…

A Buddhist parable tells of a group of blind men encountering an elephant.  I quite like a later version that situates them in a darkened room, groping for this thing within. Each reaches for a dif…

A terrorist attack had taken place, and the initial indications were that it was religiously motivated. I happened to be working with a wise and much-respected theologian[1] steeped, not only in Ch…