Originally published in the E2D Happy New Year to you all! I hope you’ve all recovered nicely from the holiday season and not finding the dreary trudge of normal life which January always seems to hold in store for us too much for you. Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? You know, those things… Read More An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. I’m writing this on Remembrance Sunday having stood in the pouring rain watching my children take part as cadets in the Whitehaven parade. While I’m trying to warm up I’ve been thinking about how the parade brought to mind the meaning of principles. First I’m… Read More Principles and Systems
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. I was impressed and moved by Rachel Holliday when I met her for the opening of Calderwood House recently. I was impressed because this woman had virtually strong-armed a number of people, including the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria, into helping turn her project… Read More Why Calderwood House offers hope to all of us
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. This one earned me my first hate mail! The refugee crisis has been huge in the news recently and suddenly governments are no longer talking about ‘the immigration crisis’ and are now saying ‘oh well, of course we need to help refugees who are so… Read More Syrians, Smartphones and Social Media
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. I write for a lot of educational publications and course providers which never fails to bring me a continuous stream of new and novel subjects to write about. I’ve just recently finished an article looking at the psychology of cheating. I was rather stunned by… Read More When Cheating is Okay
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. As I write this the sun is shining, Wimbledon is on and all seems right with the world. Except it isn’t, of course. Greece is on the verge of complete economic collapse and exit from the EU (or ‘Grexit’ as it is known); and today… Read More In the spirit of things
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. Recently I’ve been talking with solicitors and barristers about some potential legal action I may engage in. I don’t normally have much dealings with such people other than for mortgages or sorting out wills so it has been very strange to suddenly find myself ‘popping… Read More Thinking Time
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. My heart sank when I saw the chatter on Facebook. While it might have been morning for me, for all my friends living in Bangladesh it was now afternoon. During the six years we lived abroad we had felt many tremors. We knew our charity… Read More Looking after our own in a global village
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. The elections are nearly upon us and considering the strong political roots upon which Egremont 2Day was founded it seems appropriate to me that this issue at least mentions politics and elections in some way. That would be all well and good if it wasn’t… Read More A Vote of No Confidence?
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. If you’ve not seen the Dress Illusion which went viral on the internet recently then I have to wonder where you’ve been hiding. The illusion – where some people see a white and gold dress while others very definitely see only blue and black –… Read More Will ‘that dress’ makes us better people?
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