The Question – The Power of Sport

Sport has had a mixed few years, while professional sport was not been stopped again following the first lockdown our ammeter sport has struggled to and in some cases struggled financially due to the pandemic. Covering this story has shown me how much we all depend on sport whether watching or taking part. I cover F1, I enjoy it though […]

The Question – What is our responsibilities to the world

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 […]

The Question – Identity

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 […]

The Question – the need and origins of pride

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, […]

The Question – The next 25 years?

Note – This was written before the General Election It’s impossible to say what the world will look like in 2044, but one thing is certain it will look quite different. This ‘The Question’ is not about predicting what might happen in the next quarter of a century, but the challenges and changes which face us and our world. The […]

The Question – Englishness

English, is not commonly used to describe national identity by people but is that because of our history? The empire was built by mainly English people, starting with Wales in 1536, this was when Henry VIII was king it took a number of years for the union to be so intertwined. The Welsh government wouldn’t reform until 1999 The story […]

The Question – What do we do with our buildings?

We recently watched the great cathedral of Notre Dame burn, a moment when you have to really pinch yourself as you watched what looked to be the end of the cathedral. But, it poses a question how do we protect our historic buildings for future generations and what does it say about us? Many of these country houses were built […]

The Question – Why love to hate our NHS?

Our NHS entered it seventh decade in 2017, its something we both love and hate, can find frustrating but praise when we get the care and support, we all need. The health service was created by Nye Bevan, no relation, based on one key principal which remains today, ‘Healthcare should be free to everyone regardless of ability to pay.’ In […]