Humpty Dumpty

‘Humpty,’ I said, ‘I have a problem. It seems to me that churches find it hard to square being inclusive and at the same time being true...

‘Hey!’ It was Humpty. He was brandishing a leaflet. ‘You may like to look at this.’ Curious as ever, I looked. I raised my eyebrows. With...

Say what you like about Muslims, they take prayer seriously. Dress, posture, timing, regularity are of the essence. The Christian...

Fame is fickle. It is very much a hit-and-miss business of who gets recognised for making a difference to their native country. Gray...

Welcoming President Macron is one thing. Speaking his language is something else. We English are cheerfully indolent when it comes to...

In 1833 Thomas Arnold, the reforming head of Rugby School, later professor of history at Oxford, said: 'The Church, as it now stands, no...

The appetite for demolishing statues grows by what it feeds on. It is not out of place to ask why we construct such memorials in the...

‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity,’ said P.T. Barnum. Someone added: ‘Except your own obituary.’ Tongue-in-cheek that comment may...

Sir David Attenborough and Prince Charles – to name but two – are busy making sure that we have a proper respect for nature. Not all will...

Glued to our television screens or whatever other news outlets appeal to us, we have been unable to ignore events in the USA during this...

That dreamy suburb by the Thames, Surbiton, has raised a standard for customer-choice. It may have one of the 100 best railway stations...

Mischievous as ever, George Bernard Shaw is famously said to have observed that England and America are two countries divided by a common...