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Damaged and Broken

Richard held out his hand, holding something in his clenched fist: ‘I’ve got something for you.’ Puzzled, I held out my hand. He gave me my bicycle light. ‘Sorry, Malcolm,’ he said, ‘I was manoeuvring Oz’s mobility scooter, it clipped your bike and broke the light off. Things often get damaged and broken; we speak…

From Survival to Celebration

Yesterday… Reading… Captain Howard Reid, betrayed and recaptured by the Germans in Italy, in 1943, played ‘Poor Tom’s a-cold’… I didn’t recognise the phrase… Mr Google says it’s Shakespeare – King Lear. …Edgar, Gloucester’s son and heir, is cast out from his family by his half-brother Edmund’s scheming. He disguises himself as ‘Poor Tom’, a…

Clear Aims

On Saturday, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Guli Francis-Dehqani, spoke of the conflict in her native Iran with personal understanding, some anger, heart-felt compassion for the suffering… She challenged the lack of clarity regarding the aims of the war: ‘Without clear aims it’s impossible to properly assess whether the cause of this war is just, whether…

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