“A Huddersfield doctor is on the front line in the fight against the deadly ebola virus. Dr Geraldine O’Hara has flown out to Sierra Leone to join a dedicated team of medics trying to halt the spread of the terrible disease“. Continue reading →

While I have no doubt in a few days it will all be forgotten, unless of course there is an escalation of violence that certainly can’t be ruled out, one of the main news stories of the day was that of combat British troops leaving Afghanistan after having a presence for 13 years Continue reading →

It is significant that there is an important connection between work and retirement, even if it is generally not well enough recognised. Continue reading →

One of the regular e-mailings I receive is from Andre and Jeremy, who are involved with an organization called All Out, which they say is about securing “equality everywhere”, particularly when it comes to gay people. Continue reading →

Dear Matt

Thank you for your offer to help when it comes to bringing together mental health services and those front line staff and volunteers who engage with homeless folk that have mental health issues, who do so on a daily basis. Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia “The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring businessmen and women compete for the chance to work with the British business magnate Alan Sugar. In series one to six, the prize was a £100,000-a-year job as an “apprentice” to Sugar, and winners went on to work at Amstrad, an electronics manufacturing company founded by Sugar…” Continue reading →

“I was asked to make a 5 minute video for an Evangelical on-line church leadership conference called The Nines http://thenines.tv/speakers/. The conference is centered on “culture clash” – including what is called “the issue of homosexuality”. I conceded my time to a bunch of queer folks at church. Here is the result.” Continue reading →

“I do passionately believe that we must seize the day; remember, ‘Carpe Diem’. We pass this way but once, and may God forgive us if we allow opportunities to go by that we should have seized”. Continue reading →

Today, one of my Facebook friends posted an article titled: “Brighton (where Greens run the Council) has become an object lesson in why it is a disaster to vote Green – the eco-comrades have experimented with a series of bizarre policies”. Continue reading →

According to Cambridge Dictionaries Online, to have a chip on your shoulder is “to seem angry all the time because you think you have been treated unfairly” and to have a bee in your bonnet is “to keep talking about something again and again because you think it is very important”. Continue reading →