As you press your Oyster Card or Freedom Pass against the card reader when you board the bus, the driver rarely gives you a second, or...

Last week’s post about homelessness and safeguarding seems to have chimed with a number of media reports about the same issue. In fact...

597 homeless people died in England and Wales in 2017, according to research just published by Kings College, London. The average age at...

We are having some decorating done at home - principally because I'm not so good at DIY and it would take me forever. It means the house...

The Duke of Cambridge has a lot to answer for. No, not that one, but the mid-19th century landowner who refused access to the London and...

By now you will have realised if you’ve forgotten to put your clocks back. Or maybe you are hibernating already? Of course if you are in...

Contractors are replacing a gas main in my road. The work started in August and was scheduled to last 9 weeks. Well it’s 10 weeks now and...

The Carl Beech case hit the headlines again last week. A report was published which described in detail the errors the police had made in...

It’s a wet night in Birmingham. It doesn’t sound as good as a rainy night in Georgia, but never mind. I’m here tonight to support a...

Sunday night saw me at our circuit church for Choral Evensong led by the choirs of two local Anglican churches. It was a splendid evening...

This week’s blog really does speak for itself and probably doesn’t warrant much commentary from me.  The link below relates to a very...

I must confess to never having read Proust’s monumental masterpiece ‘A la recherché du temps perdu’. I think it’s one of the longest...

Today is a first - a blog on location coming to you live - well Sunday lunchtime from Greenbelt.  Yours truly is again a member of the...

It’s August and it’s meant to be quiet.  If it’s not the weather making the news it’s Brexit or a commentary on the Royals’ holiday...

The other big news story last week was the conviction and imprisonment of Carl Beech. The BBC described him as ‘the fantasist’ who told...

Are you ready for the midweek heatwave? Tough if you are stuck in the office or other workplace, and spare a thought for those who need...

If you work in safeguarding, I guess one thing you might be attracted to, or equally turned off by, are TV dramas that have a...

It’s early July and I guess we should be thinking about joining Cliff Richard as we all go on our summer holiday.  But having now heard...

The Metropolitan Police have just released figures which show that they raise 700 safeguarding concerns for children and adults every...

Sadly, serious youth violence, particularly but not exclusively in the capital, has not abated.  A shooting in a part of Feltham in south...