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...

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

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

The new academic year has begun. Teachers are well rested but no doubt viewing the workload of the coming weeks with some trepidation. We...

One of the best things about teaching and studying the Business Ethics topic in A Level Religious Studies is that there are a number of...

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Just over 4 months ago I announced my news that I would be leaving full time teaching to prioritise my self-employed work as an examiner,...

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I have some news. After almost 25 years in full time teaching, I am about to make a big change. I will be stepping down as head of...

I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Whilst doing my New Testament Greek I learned that there were two Greek words for time, Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is the simple passage of time, ‘it was 6 o’clock, it is now 9 o’clock’, that’s Chronos. Then there's Kairos. Kairos is not just simply a passage of time, it carries the sense of a significant time, an opportune time or a season. So when we say ‘it’s time to expand the business’ or ‘it’s time that we settled down and bought a