It’s a strange time as most of us are at home due to coronavirus, I have been self-isolating at home now for two and a half months as I was on the shielding list. I know my condition is quite broad so I can understand why there was a blanket stay at home order, although some have not been following […]
We are all living through a lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, this means for many of us we are spending more time at home. We are living twenty-four hours a day with our families, which for many of us we only normally do when we are away on holiday. This isn’t the normal ‘The Question” but it explores the […]
This is the first time I’ve written a message like this; this is not a researched piece or one which is designed to explore a topic. It is just a few thoughts about the current situation we find ourselves in. For Christian’s Easter Sunday represents the rebirth of Jesus the Easter Egg is designed to represent the tomb Jesus’s body […]
Well, we enter extraordinary times, the coronavirus has become something which is affecting all of our lives. All normal activities whether that be business, sport or social activities are being posepond. I have been thinking about as the crisis escalated what impact could it have on normal life… The extraordinary events which unfolded in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Grand […]
Often, I find the most powerful stories are real and not from celebrities, politicians or public figures, the real powerful stories are from ordinary people who have either lived through something difficult or general life experience. In the rolling news cycle where news breaks all the time, there is little time to go beyond the facts of the story and […]
February a month where we begin to look ahead after the cold January. The main story this month was the acquittal of Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, we know that was not a surprise as the trial was political and the jury were largely Republicans. The thing I been focused on is ‘The Power of Human Stories’ something I […]
We all are part of a society based on freedom of expression and rights to access education, health care and equality in law. But in some way our society isn’t equal, as the chance for the poorest to get themselves out of poverty as easily as it is for the wealthier to get wealthier. Western society I believe is based […]
The theme for this month accidentally became freedom, I pulled together three pieces of content which I had no plan to link but scrolling through my notes and documents I found two uncompleted pieces of writing around that them. The first one, The Meaning of Freedom, started out as me trying to explore what it means to be free […]
On the 27 January 1945, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz the biggest mass murder site in the history of the world. Seventy-five years on, and amongst the ever-growing division of Europe and the world, the warning from the Holocaust and all the genocides since is of where the division can lead. With Brexit just days away, we cannot allow the […]
Freedom to say, believe, argue without fear of being persecuted or insulted for what we say is a key part of our values. It’s a privilege we need to remember we are lucky to have, but it also a responsibility which we can lose if we are not questioning. In my view, a good society is based on freedom of […]