ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Another war between Israel and the Jews on one side, and various Palestinian and Muslim groups on the other. Is there any way to peace? ...
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Oct 7, 20232 min read
DECLINE .... and FALL?
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is perhaps the most famous history book ever written. All empires decline, either gracefully or...
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Sep 28, 20231 min read
CERN AND ANTI-MATTER
The BBC News recently reported the success of scientists at CERN in making and storing anti-matter. In the world as we know it, the...
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downinnorfolk
Sep 20, 20232 min read
A SAME-SEX ATTRACTED CELIBATE CHRISTIAN
This is the way that David Bennett now describes himself. I was recently recommended his book "A War of Loves." I found it a liberating...
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Sep 15, 20232 min read
WHERE ARE ALL THE BIRDS?
We have lived in this first-floor flat for over 10 years. The flats are built along two sides of open space, with a large lawn, hedges,...
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Sep 8, 20233 min read
The Future of the Planet
Chris Packham, at the moment one of the BBC's darlings, is prophesying that the planet will heat up to the point where human life can no...
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Aug 24, 20232 min read
LUCY LETBY
I may be the odd one out, but what I feel for Lucy Letby is only pity. I do not overlook the grief and pain that she has inflicted on...
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Aug 17, 20232 min read
BUYING AND SELLING
For some months now I have been struggling with what many will know is the stressful business of buying and selling property. It seemed...
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Aug 10, 20233 min read
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR
A recurring feature in the News these days is people complaining that someone has subjected them in the past to inappropriate or...
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Aug 4, 20233 min read
IS THERE ANY JUSTICE?
Barely a day goes by without some item of the News featuring an individual or a group seeking justice for some injury or loss from the...
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downinnorfolk
Jul 27, 20232 min read
NOT TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE
What have we come to when senior doctors, earning £100,000 a year, care more about their pay than their patients? Suppose we all stand...
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downinnorfolk
Jul 20, 20233 min read
IS THE END NIGH?
Chris Packham, apparently, has just had to have three months off work, suffering with ‘eco-anxiety’. He is not the only one. So are the...
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downinnorfolk
Jul 7, 20232 min read
WINNERS AND LOSERS
Sport dominates the schedules of the broadcasters at the moment. Indeed, if you are not interested in tennis, it is almost impossible to...
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downinnorfolk
Jun 29, 20234 min read
WINDRUSH AND THE NHS
It is strange that both the arrival of the HMT Windrush and the establishment of the National Health Service should have coincided in the...
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downinnorfolk
Jun 23, 20232 min read
THE WORLD GOES BY
I am having to sit and let the world go by at the moment. Not something I find easy, but good for me, I guess. Sunday a week ago, I had...
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downinnorfolk
Jun 15, 20233 min read
FEARS OF THE FUTURE
It is said that the younger generation suffer from a chronic fear of the future. The commonest form is the fear of Climate Change and...
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Jun 8, 20232 min read
THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES
I was recently recommended a novel by Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March. Roth was a Jew born in 1894 in what is now Western Ukraine, but...
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downinnorfolk
May 31, 20232 min read
THE HISTORY OF ISLAM
I was reading recently about an initiative in Central Asia to help Christians to argue the case for Christianity against Islam. It seemed...
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downinnorfolk
May 18, 20233 min read
PERSECUTION
Like many others, my wife and I give to Barnabas Aid, one of the organisations that support persecuted Christians throughout the world. ...
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downinnorfolk
May 11, 20232 min read
THE LAST CORONATION ?
Sometimes I wonder why I write this blog? It is because it makes me think: put into words my impressions and feelings about things as...
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