Charles Ellingworth

James Lovelock died recently at 103. He was a  hero of mine, famous of course for his Gaia Theory which sees the earth as a complex living o...

I watched some of the Netflix series on Jimmy Savile - as much as I needed to. One thing that came out of it was what a peculiar life he led...

A few months ago there was a court martial of colonel in the army. He had been in charge of  a skiing party of officers and other ranks of b...

This is from CS Lewis’s sermon in Oxford’s University Church on the outbreak of war in 1939. The war creates no absolutely new situation: it...

The weary battlefield  of  Scottish independence drags on. It is a battle that brings out the worst in both parties. The English are patroni...

Consent, by Vanessa Springora has shaken up the Soixant Huitard generation of French intellectuals. It is memoir of her sexual abuse between...

One of the better things about today is the pervasive use of first names. Sure,  it can be irritating when a salesman/women uses your first ...