So firebrand George Galloway, of the Workers Party, easily wins Rochdale with 39.7% of the vote after a divisive and controversial...

I was totally flummoxed.  No way could I work it out. Why do I have a moving image from about five metres above my car? This Tuesday I...

"It was just brilliant," Nisha Capper tells Newsbeat. "I never thought I'd be partying in the cathedral. Halfway through the night, I was...

Strangely I found myself seated in the very same place occupied by Prince Harry just nine months previous, three rows back and towards...

“I can’t put on a brave face any longer. I want to give up.” She continues: “How wonderful it would be to rest both my shoulders and my...

¡Hola! Did you know that going on holiday represents 13 points on the Holmes and Rahe stress scale?  Okay, that’s much less than hassle...

So Jesus sends his disciples on their first mission.  Lesson #1 – learn how to fail. Of course we are all wary of failure, to think that...

“This is what they do every time and that is what they are going to do now, but this isn’t going away because we have almost 1,000 pages...

Red lines are important and so we need to draw them with care and humility. Over Christmas I received a rather sad email from a pastor of...

I blame Andrew. It’s 17th August, 2012 and I am on the beach at Swanage enjoying our family holiday.  Away from the parish. Relaxed. Then...

In this era of dismal and dispiriting news, the message of the angels has a particular resonance: “I bring you good news that will cause...

Of course, there was no donkey.  Neither was Jesus born the very night Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem.  And no cave, either. We...

The familiar intro and then Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo in excelsis Deo! So here we are once again in London, to...

Waterloo. Where I spent 15 of my early years, attending Waterloo Grammar School, running for Waterloo Harriers, supporting Waterloo Rugby...

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task” declared the remarkable Helen Keller, “but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as...

“Excuse me, is this the Gallery?” We’d just called to Cedar Farm for a coffee en route from the crematorium.  However, the coffee shop...

Tail end Charlie sounds like a fun character from a pantomime. In reality, the very opposite – one of the most dangerous assignments...

We were delighted to hear that our teenage niece had started attending her local church in North Vancouver. As it happens we knew the...

So Rachel Reeves has been found out, a lesson for us all. Me especially , The Financial Times made an analysis of her book, The Women Who...

Perceptions are everything. Canadian novelist, Robertson Davies, was spot on when he observed: “The eye sees only what the mind is...