Jimmy Savile – TV star, charity fundraiser, lovable eccentric – reputation shattered. Lance Armstrong – multiple Tour de France winner, elite athlete, victor over cancer – reputation shattered. Two very different cases, yet profoundly similar....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
20 seconds - seconds, not minutes – that’s how long his Olympics lasted. A British judo competitor, in his first-round bout, he was caught by his Canadian opponent with a move that he had been expecting. Just 20 seconds into the bout, he was on...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Not even one! Can you believe it? Not a single one! On the last climactic day of the football season, every match in the English Premier League was played on the Lord’s Day – no exceptions. Now – we can understand why all the games kicked off...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Have you ever watched one of those attempts on the world record for knocking over dominoes? Millions of them are set up with supreme care, forming patterns, spelling out words, performing tricks: everything to entertain the watchers. At the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Is the gospel message really enough? Can we seriously expect people to respond in faith and repentance to words – spoken or written – and so be saved? Do we not need miracles, signs, wonders, healings, exorcisms? Look at the growth experienced...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
No – I don’t have the solution to the euro zone crisis. That may well come as a shock to fans of this column, the multitudes who habitually turn to this site as soon as a new blog is posted, seeking for the usual wit, wisdom and enlightenment....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
‘We’re all going the one way’. A standard answer when somebody complains about their advanced age and the down-side of growing old. It’s supposed to afford a few crumbs of consolation, assuring the aged that their situation is not unique, that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Anybody could write a blog about Amy Winehouse. Seriously – they could. It isn’t difficult. All the pieces are ready to hand. The voice, the talent, the prodigious early success, the instability, the drink, the drugs, the long-awaited second...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If you have not been keeping up with new film releases or reading the cinema reviews, you may well have missed it. Life in a Day is a documentary that began as a YouTube spin-off designed to provide a portrait of global life on a single day (July...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
