The Holocaust and other genocide normally are taken as one big event, however, to understand our values as a country I believe that we need to look back. The fact however remains the same, ‘we didn’t keep our promise of never again,’ but we all have a responsibility to prevent genocide, This year I’m going to try something different, marking […]
Being disabled makes me a member of a club of a billion people, we are different, and we are not the same, we may have the same condition but the way it affects us is very indvial. I know my challenges are different to a full-time wheelchair user, but as an ambulatory wheelchair user I am aware of the challenges, […]
Over the last few years, I have become involved in the local Baptist church in bath, it has become like a home for me as I’m normally there a few hours a week helping out with the office doing my own projects and general admin. From the start, I have welcomed with open arms something which I needed I had […]
We all have different responsibilities in life regardless of who we are and what we do. But what does that mean to the people we affect, work with and meet, the decisions you make can affect others. Although not many of us hold the power to make the decisions, we have the responsibility to hold those with the decision making […]
We all have various identity’s, ones we can and can’t control these identities are shaped throughout our life, they evolve and change by what we do and who we are friends with. The first identity we are assigned is male or female, I don’t want to get into gender identity as I believe its not my area of expertise. But […]
Our world has been changed over the last few months, nearly all of our lives have been changed by Coronavirus. In this piece, I want to explore how our life may be changed forever, the long term impacts on us and what we may need to keep long term. Since we began to go into various lockdowns many of us […]
This month is global pride month, so I wanted to explore the history of pride and as a gay man who has never been to pride what it means to me. Unfortunately, this year due to coronavirus and social distancing means that many of these events will be cancelled due to coronavirus. The story of pride goes back to 1969, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]