Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. It’s appropriate to start this post with the above quotation...
So far, in all the blog posts of the past months, I have consciously not mentioned the horrific acts that have defined members of my family these past six years: the murder of my son, Michael, and my ex-wife, Dorothy on January 28, 2003. The fact that...
Firstly my apology for the lack of posts these past couple of weeks. As you might have expected, with Helen arriving in Saudi, and with a new home for us to establish (as well as both of us in full time, demanding jobs) there hasn’t been a lot of time...
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It’s been a roller coaster of a week. Firstly, for anyone reading this that doesn’t yet know; please welcome Alexander Andrew Logue into the world. Our second grandchild was born on October 18 in Calgary, and my thanks to our first, Marilena, (who is,...
Three separate stories have raised my ire this week and if you haven't already seen them, please allow me to share them with you, and have a rant in the process of doing so. The first concerns two women police officer in the UK who decided to baby-sit...
In case you are unaware, there is a British woman, Linda Carty, currently on death row in Texas. By all accounts, the case against her is deeply flawed. There is an online petition currently available, which will be presented to those in power as soon...
I have recently been reading an interesting new book entitled What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson. In a closely argued text, looking historically from the English Civil War to the present day, his basic premise is that today, we are in danger of losing...
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When I trained to be a teacher in the early 1970s, it was compulsory to do three periods of assessed teaching practice. For my second of these, lasting a little over a month, I was fortunate enough to be selected for a school on a US Air Force base in...
To quote the great West Indian writer, C.L.R. James: What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? It's over thirty years since I read his wonderful book, Beyond a Boundary, and more than forty since I sat on the boundary ropes at Lords and the...
This is from today's Guardian. It's an interesting take on the death of Michael Jackson, and the wealth of bad taste jokes (most of which, I have to say I loved) that inevitably followed. Worth a look. link
