We all get there together or we don’t get there at all. From the movie ~ Hidden Figures The first half of 2016 was reasonably calm....

The EU Referendum debate was an opportunity for us to have an intelligent discussion about some of the challenges that we face as a...

I was a School Governor i.e. on the Board for a School for close to 10 years. As I was a Founding Director not only did I share in the...

When I speak in Schools and Colleges on issues of diversity, inclusion and engagement, I have on occasion shown a BNP video in which a...

A couple of months back I was at a friend’s place. We were just having a general conversation when an appeal message for children in need...

After I woke up on Monday to the news that Robin Williams had passed away and I learnt of the circumstances, I said I hoped that his...

A few weeks back I was speaking at a conference in Denmark. I asked the audience whether anyone had heard about the girls that were...

I recently found myself watching the “Doll test” An experiment where children, black and white are shown two different dolls at the same...

I’ve just got come from a shopping trip to Marks & Spencer and I must say that I’m pleased to have learnt before I left that they will...

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, make our earth an Eden, like the heaven above. Little Drops of Water by Julia Carney,...

I have a poppy, which I choose to wear and I wear it with great pride. It actually looks just like this one worn by young Nicholas on...

I started following the case of Travyon Martin from across the ocean here in England from the earlier days. From the early days, I mean...

For the first time ever, courtesy of Sainsbury’s I drank vegetable juice (combined with fruit juice) this past weekend.  I’m pretty...

Today, the 7th July 2013 marks the 8th anniversary of the London bombing by four terrorists. It’s also the morning that we wake up to the...

I followed the media frenzy regarding the Rotherham Council fostering case yesterday.  I refer to it as the Rotherham Fostering case as...

When the Jimmy Savile scandal first broke, I had no idea how bad things were, but I knew there were bad – the abuse of anyone is bad, the...

First I clicked on Stan Collymore’s name.  I discovered that with no apparent reason, someone had decided to rein racial abuse on him via...

Did you know… £5 provides water for a family for a week? £10 pays for a rural health care worker for a week? £25 feeds a family of six...

If you’re a real jazz enthusiast you will probably know that New Orleans and Jazz are synonymous as New Orleans is the birth place of...

You may remember in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina – a lot of questions were raised as to why people did not leave New...