The scenes of carnage in Haiti, following the earthquake of last week and the estimated 200,000 dead, is horribly reminiscent of The Road.  Scenes of ... Read on

Collapse of civility “Millions of Britons unable to cope with modern life,” the Young Foundation reported last week portraying Britain as a psychologically fragile society ... Read on

Everyone’s Children Some years ago I wrote a short Paper on the relationship of education to democracy.  It read: “To send your child to the ... Read on

Community I’m certain that Margaret Thatcher meant well when she questioned, in that article in Women’s Own in 1987, whether there is such a thing ... Read on

Vibrant Communities Even in Canary Wharf wealthy bankers hang evocative paintings of the countryside without realising how life is being sucked out of small rural ... Read on

Learning by doing All we wanted was a chocolate cake.  But in one of the old pottery towns of Staffordshire that meant getting into a ... Read on

It is almost exactly ten years to the day that I completed the writing of The Child is the Father of the Man; How Humans ... Read on