(A version of this was published in the TES December 2021) ‘It’s Christmas Day’ said Scrooge to himself, ‘I haven’t missed it.’ I wonder...

The late Mr Loaf famously said he would do anything for love but not that, I was never totally sure what ‘that’ was. My new freelance...

How do we deal with the stresses and strains of teaching? I have written at length about these issues but you’re a teacher and you're...

‘Politics is broken’ claims the online post. It’s not completely wrong and some of the responsibility for that lies with some...

I believe in the parable of the lost sheep – it is a fantastic message that no one is beyond grace, no one should be written off. A...

It is that time of year when understandably many of us get itchy feet. We have had a couple of weeks downtime and the thought of going...

The philosopher Robert Nozick has a famous thought experiment involving an experience machine or pleasure machine. He asks us to imagine...

Recently there have been lots of discussions online about the relative merits of different boards for RS A level. I thought it would be...

A few people have asked me the above question recently or have shown an interest in how the freelance journey is going 3 years on. When I...

After 2 Covid years we may have forgotten what a real results day feels like. In the midst of students jumping up into the air...

During my last visit to sunny Hampshire in 2016 I spoke about some of the key issues from 'the Elephant in the Staffroom' which was...

In this blog which I find myself returning to after 3 years, I am pondering my relationship with social media. I am searching for some...

A long time ago – thankfully before the age of Youtube and social media – I used to do a bit of music; there was a very brief band with a...

One of my Christmas reads was a book called ‘the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry’ by an American pastor called John Mark Comer. It’s not...

Conservative or Socialist? Right Wing or Left Wing? It may be that other options are available. I'd like to make a case for Liberalism....

You can take the title one of two ways. Perhaps you have always voted Conservative for various reasons but are you really, truthfully...

(Written late December 2021 - with a few March 2022 edits as the Johnson government passes 1,000 days!) How is the Johnson government...

I’ve always been interested in organisation and time management - I wonder if the word I am looking for is Productivity. I included some...

After months of washing up by hand we have replaced our dead dishwasher. Although not a top of the range model, it came with a 40 page...

If you do any sort of logic, philosophy or critical thinking course, you will come across the false dilemma, otherwise known as the...