Sunny Afternoon
On one of those perfect Autumn days, when the suns shines and blesses but doesn’t blaze or burn, people came from all round the UK to express their dislike of ‘Brexit’. The organizers of the ‘People’s vote’ march had expected 100,000 attendees. 670,000 turned up. The atmosphere was carnival, witty, intelligent, gentle, friendly – but behind that lay a firm, powerful sense of rightness. A sense that something in our national life was being deeply mismanaged, both morally and p
Staying balanced in divided times
As the Brexit debate gets ever more acrimonious, it becomes ever more important to keep our humanity, perspective and balance. The nation is clearly very divided, and the worst thing about that is that the divisive voices seem to be the ones shouting loudest. Turn on the radio and there will be someone angry or someone unsufferably smug. Oversimplification and emotion have triumphed over reason and careful thought. Whatever happens in the end, there will be a nasty legacy of
