Greetings from Castelldefels, Catalunya – from our Airbnb near Barcelona airport. We’ve now become regular user of this online...

Existential doubt and purpose, individuality and identity. These are big issues of life addressed by the film I went to see this week. ...

"Expectancy," mused pentecostal pioneer, Edwin Louis Cole, "is the atmosphere for miracles." I could have done with a miracle on Sunday...

“These are the decisions of a prime minister in a hurry’” observes BBCs political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, of our new prime minister. ...

Scarisbrick being a farming community means that our Wednesday prayer meeting starts at a ridiculously early time – and this week I found...

No doubt there will be spelling mistakes which evaded my spell cheque while my punctuation will be, all over the: place. But in 45...

There’s one thing to be said in their favour, squirrels think. I know, I’ve just been watching one. Some background here. We have...

And it is also 50 years ago, again virtually to the day, when I first made contact with Joseph Heller’s eponymous novel, Catch 22. Phil...

It was 50 years ago, almost to the day, when I took possession of my little Viking man. I won him in a 400m race in the university town...

It’s summer 1970 and I’m doing North America by Greyhound. My longest journey is the 947 miles from Vancouver to San Francesco. As the...

My friend Harry was there. I worked with Harry for three years in District H: we were both social workers with the Liverpool Social...

It’s a tale of two lawns. We had no choice really. Our builder, for quite understandable reasons, wrecked both our front and back...

We live in unsettled and unsettling times. We’ve just voted in an election no one was expecting and no one knows whether those elected...

Well, it’s that time of the year again. “Royaume-Uni, nul points!” I have to confess that I will not be joining the 186 millions of you...

The commentator for Radio 5 Live was almost incoherent when Lucas Moura scored for Spurs in the closing seconds of the Champions League...

An incident yesterday showed me what happens when Christians hurt each other, sadly an all-too-common occurrence: that God himself is...

Tomorrow I achieve a major milestone, or more precisely a major kilometre-stone: it’s my 150thParkRun. Sadly I am not awarded with a...

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot,” claims W.H. Auden. “The reality is so...

As we await the third episode of Line of Duty, I regret not taking notes during the first four series. The genius of Jed Mercurio’s...

Each Tuesday at Ormskirk's Park pool Sarah tries to drown me. I now know her technique. To begin with she aims to tire me out through...