Forty years ago it was conventional wisdom that charities should become more 'businesslike'. So now, alas, they are. (View Post)

This is the point when people who haven't been to church for ten generations suddenly wake up and realise their Christian heritage is at risk. (View Post)

Yay - a Wales thread. As usual there are long-term trends (= socio-economics) and short-term fluctuations (= politics) to weigh up. The NE Wales red wall has been slowly trending Tory for decades as … (View Post)

We're slowly edging towards Samuel Butler's Erewhon - a dystopia in which illness is considered to be a crime but criminality is regarded as a temporary, treatable indisposition. (View Post)

100 years ago my grandfather raised 8 children in a 3-bedroom terrace house on a railwayman's wage. My other grandfather did likewise on a steelworker's wage. It would take a big book to ex… (View Post)