Treasure in the attic

02/05/2013 | Reform

Tomorrow’s Church Times, I hear, has a report from Lambeth Palace Library where staff are working through a collection of books retrieved from the attic of a former staff member. “They thought that about 60 volumes had gone missing. They … Read More

One last snatch

17/04/2013 | Reform

This letter was in our office kitchen, from the company that brings our milk. Because of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral today they will not be able to get it to us. Even in death, the milk snatcher strikes again.

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Smells like Holy Spirit

04/04/2013 | Reform

If you watched The Day Today, Chris Morris’s parody news show, in the 1990s, you find the real news is always giving you Chris Morris flashbacks. I just had one reading this headline from the Huffington Post: “Woman claims to … Read More

Benefit of the doubt

04/04/2013 | Reform

The conviction of the Philpotts for benefit-fuelled manslaughter was an extraordinary bit of timing for those who want to feel all right about the government’s benefits reform starting this week, which will make massive public savings at the expense of … Read More

Did Livingstone have Asperger’s?

19/03/2013 | Reform

Spending a year with David Livingstone while writing his biography, I got the definite impression that he had Asperger’s Syndrome. I didn’t mention this in the book, or anywhere else much, for the sensible reason that I don’t know anything … Read More

The sun shines on the just

18/03/2013 | Reform

The cover of the Sun – trying to avoid regulation by invoking Churchill and claiming to be the most dangerous foe of tyranny and the most vigilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citizen – on the day that … Read More