Wool gathering of a northern dean

Apologies to R. S. Thomas for the title - inspired by his poem 'Poetry for Supper'.  Today I invited a small audience in the Cathedr...

The way Cliff Richard has been treated is shocking. At least, it has shocked me.  Not only was his house searched while he was known to be o...

In 1895 in Paris, Alfred Dreyfus, an army officer, was convicted of handing over French military secrets to the Germans. He was condemned to...

'The protagonists of [the First World War] were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the horror they wer...

I write this from Devon, the little village of Holne tucked into a southern fold of Dartmoor.  We are staying in the half-timbered Church Ho...

The black flags of Isis are flying over Christian churches in Mosul. It is heartbreaking to think of what they symbolise: the ruthless perse...

It is shocking to learn of Muslims from Britain who have  been recruited by ISIS to fight in Syria and Iraq. The summons to j ihad   has pro...