Archbishop, you’ve committed treason
My text for today is “Hold fast that which is good”: 1 Thessalonians 5:21. These are words I heard so regularly in prayers at my Anglican girls’ school that I have been unable to forget them. I draw them to the attention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to have forgotten them. At least, he seems to be losing his grip on what is good in this country and, indeed, to be throwing it away with both hands in his curious suggestion that aspects of sharia should be recognised in English law.
Sunday, February 10, 2008 | Comments (1)
The joyous freedom of the frisky fifties
There is a sense at fiftysomething of burdens falling away, of old struggles abandoned
Sunday, February 03, 2008 | Comments (0)
A tot of hypnosis stopped me drinking
Over the Christmas period I was suddenly surprised by faith. I don’t mean that I found God; I mean that over a few days, against my preconceptions, I become a true believer in hypnosis. On December 5 I went to a hypnotherapist to be hypnotised into stopping drinking, and it worked.
Sunday, January 13, 2008 | Comments (1)
The nasty choices needed to save the NHS
July 5 this year will be the 60th birthday of the National Health Service. The NHS has come to occupy a place in the national psyche that is almost religious: every politician has to declaim, sooner or later, and often, “I believe in the NHS”, or face electoral limbo. Anyone putting forward serious criticism or suggesting change risks heartfelt disapproval, as if both our sole article of national faith and our most powerful repository of identity were being desecrated.
Sunday, January 06, 2008 | Comments (1)
This way to the darkened room, Gordon
Drop those finely honed instructions and plans, scrap those self-audits and bossy, bloated quangos
Sunday, December 30, 2007 | Comments (0)
