I do volunteer office work for a charity that, among other things, provides food parcels. The rise in applicants has been inexorable this year. In my own wider family there is poverty. I often wonder… (View Post)

Good morning, everyone. I'm astonished at so much optimism. Glad to hear it, I suppose, but where does it come from? In my experience the green shoots of improvement in any field need to be quit… (View Post)

One reason why I don't have a television. Another is that when the then Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sachs, compared TV to an open sewer running through one's living room, I could see his point. I… (View Post)

You're right, sadly. After I'd posted that comment, it occurred to me that it might be a political view, in that so many people are glad to see the back of the Conservative government. (View Post)

8 I have a long history of not having a television, so a long history of getting these threatening letters. Recently I heard of a new one I haven't seen personally. Apparently they start legal p… (View Post)