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Last week, the DfE published its Model Music Curriculum (MMC) for children in Key Stages 1 and 2 (and KS3, usefully, though this is not part of [...]
March 31, 2021
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Whenever I am in woods or forests, I am reminded of the passage in Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow where Jayber heads into an ancient stand of [...]
March 31, 2021
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The most useful piece of writing I have seen on the recent dispute at Batley Grammar School over a teacher’s use of a cartoon image of the [...]
March 30, 2021
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This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last month on the nature of freedom, a topic that has gained more airtime with the lifting of some Covid-19 [...]
March 30, 2021
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The grebe family on Lodge Lake in Great Holm has begun nesting again on its island. The swan pen is sitting on her nest hidden in reeds while the [...]
March 27, 2021
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At the beginning of the film Battle of Britain there is a scene where Erhard Milch looks through a mounted telescope at the British coast from a [...]
March 21, 2021
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Integrity gets a lot of airtime at the moment, and rightly so. The need to match deeds and words, in the age of senior politicians (Johnson, [...]
March 16, 2021
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In the middle of a passage on effort and discipleship, writing to the church in Philippi from the house in Rome where he was being kept prisoner, [...]
March 8, 2021
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Some years ago, so long ago that I cannot now find an image of the offending van, I saw an ad on the side of a Paragon Laundry vehicle in [...]
March 6, 2021