Humpty Dumpty

‘Get a life,’ people will say when their friends confess their ignorance of the latest tourist destination or the benefits of 5G. If we...

We are all churned up when we see heroic, desperate people crammed into inflatables and hoping to make landfall in the UK. As a seafaring...

The sport of kings is recovering. Epsom, Aintree and Ascot are regaining their status as pilgrim centres. For that is what they exist for...

So poetry is to become optional (apart from one of Shakespeare’s plays) in English education. It’s enough to make one weep. It’s easy...

Even Humpty would agree. Not uncommonly our plans go haywire. We are blown off course. Maybe we are dumped by a prospective partner. We...

Whether it is choosing a life-partner, launching one career rather than another, or becoming a vegan, we have to choose. The scary thing...

‘Hey, Humpty! Have you read ‘Revelation’? ‘You mean Sansom’s novel? It’s a good read.’ ‘No, I mean the last book of the Bible.’ Humpty...

A doctor I know had a name-change. Instead of being called Grace, she wished to be known as Miriam. I have a nephew who has made a...

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul was once a cathedral. Westminster Abbey was once a cathedral These two great buildings have that in common. We...

Kipling knew a thing or two. When he referred to Triumph and Disaster as two impostors that come our way, he demonstrated that we all too...

The beautiful thing about going into an Aldi or an Asda (will Germany or the USA be in charge of our supermarkets in days to come?) is...

‘Humpty,’ I said, ‘let’s have a look at church websites.’ ‘Careful,’ he replied. ‘It’s OK,’ I said. ‘Now that everybody has read Ben...

What will have changed? What will still be changing? How shall we cope? The after-lockdown questions cluster and congeal. None of us...

Prayer is not only difficult – like doing things with your left hand when you’re right-handed. It is also unlike most of what we do when...