‘What can I do to cheer you up?’ Dave said at teatime yesterday. ‘Get rid of Trump, replace Starmer with Corbyn, clear my head of snot,’ ...

Do you have a to-do list? I usually send myself an email last thing at night with the next day’s to-do list as the subject title. But when I...

I turned 75 last year but I haven’t got to grips with it yet. What I mean is this: I am fairly fit, but I walked 10,000 steps yesterday on a...

  And will our Prime Minister protest? Don’t hold your breath. I take it back. 

I have found January weather so gloomy and so depressing that I decided to paint something that would cheer me up. At the end of December I ...

I have just seen the newspaper headlines about the important ceremonies remembering the victims of the Holocaust, and wondered if the Israel...

I have a five year diary and on each day there is a question to be answered.  This is yesterday’s page… The persecution of the Palestinians ...

I  am relieved that the ceasefire has begun, but there is so sense of elation. It’s like watching a bully beating someone to a pulp and even...

  Yes I’m still here, waiting for the ceasefire.

I’ve been very grumpy this week on account of the snow and ice, and being cooped up with just one other unfortunate person, who is unfortuna...

Is this what it felt like in 1939? Did the world feel this scary? This dark? Was society as fractured as it feels right now? At least the wo...