When I sat down 12 months ago to write a few words on what 2011 would bring I paraphrased Mark Twain and said predictions are difficult, particularly about the future, and how right that was.Read
I was sitting in Row L at the Birmingham Hippodrome when I felt a warm, once familiar tingling sensation. It started somewhere around the top of my head, spread to my shoulders and induced a misty, inner glow.
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Salisbury Cathedral has a rather splendid new font. Back in the 1970s its designer Bill Pye was at work in the West Midlands creating public works of art. It did not go well.Read
As we know all too well, the economy is not recovering as quickly as expected. George Osborne argues there are a number of reasons for this, none of which can be pinned on him.
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I am faced with a dilemma. Recently I have had the opportunity through a sabbatical to pursue a long standing interest around gender and leadership. Read
It was mid-week, the cupboard was bare and the troops on the domestic front needed a morale boost. I did the honourable dad thing: I said I would pick up fish and chips on the way home.Read
In our neighbourhood we’re into the third (or is it fourth ?) week of fireworks. It might seem odd, in such circumstances, to declare the official end of Bonfire Night.Read
A lot of attention has been paid, quite rightly, to the number of young people who are unemployed, but let’s spare a thought for the older generation.Read
It is curious that people always seem to notice the arrival and departure of birds which visit us in the spring and summer, but the same does not apply (at least to the birds of our gardens and parks) to winter visitors.Read
