It comprises 84,000 words, written on 332 pages. It took me seven years to write, one day a week, alongside a full-time job.It’s taken me most of this…
I seem to have hit the age where I have to hold a book an elbow’s length away, in order for it to come into focus. Things that…
British people are living through their third national lockdown, since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared ten months ago – and I am one of them.Despite this being…
About a month before Christmas, during the daily early evening national news programme, BBC television showed some profoundly moving film footage from Burnley, a market town in North…
It’s been about fifteen months since I last saw my Nigerian colleague in person and, in the intervening months, I’m aware he’s been seriously sick. Today, he greets…
It’s not often that you stumble upon a story behind the national news headlines, which forces you to stop a moment, thinking, ‘Wow!’ This is one such story.…
It is a swelteringly hot summer’s day. The sun is riding high in a pure blue cloudless sky, the temperature and humidity are soaring, and I am at…
It’s not often that I’m invited to write one of my ‘light through the cracks‘ stories for other online forums. But when Next Leadership asked me to write their monthly reflection…
It’s been a drab, grey, rainy January day, and I notice the temperature has dropped, as I get out of the car outside my friends’ house and walk…
A wedding invitation has arrived in the post. It’s from an old friend, a guy who’s been an established batchelor for as long as I can remember. It…