On one of the most important days of the year I asked an old gentleman for leave to sit by his side on a park bench, he nodded yes as he sat forward leaning on his walking stick his head resting upon his hands.  He wore a beret with the insignia of his old regiment […]

Do you think that if the tens of thousands of young men who gave their lives for our country in two world wars had the benefit of foresight they would have been as keen to sign up? Our land has become an overflowing cess pit of crime organised or otherwise. Drugs poison our streets wrecking […]

Following the unfortunate death of George Floyd on 25th May 2020 while being arrested, the movement Black Lives Matter was born, not what you would call an edifying launch to a human rights movement given its initiation was based on alleged wrong doing. Since then many demonstrations of pique and obversely sympathy have taken place […]

Many of us whilst having a meal and watching the television at the same time will have felt a sense of guilt when an appeal for financial help is accompanied by images of a starving pot-bellied child somewhere in Africa covered in flies and drinking from a pool of water that an equally emaciated cow […]

At this year’s Isle of Man TT Races five men were killed in horrific crashes including a father and son team, the son was only twenty-one years old. These tragic killings (for that is what they were) because they were not accidents made me weep with both pity and anger. Those who I have spoken […]

They say you shouldn’t believe all you read in the newspapers and a while ago there was a report that certainly made you wonder. It appears that some police forces are to recruit children as mini police also dog walkers, criminals and prostitutes in a cut price effort to fight terrorism and other crimes, (don’t […]

There are some radicals in our land who believe that one day their flag will fly above Downing Street, whether you believe this or not it appears to be on someone’s wish list. Many of our churches have been closed and converted to places of worship by other faiths. Judging by the attendance at recent […]

There are incidents in life that not only shape your character but shape your future too, often in a profound way. Recently whilst watching my flock of homing pigeons flying in a cloudless sky apparently for the sheer joy of it, I had a flashback to my youth. My dad was a keen pigeon fancier […]