Restrictions on students, pubs and restaurants closing at 10pm, fines for people not self-isolating, report your neighbour to the police if they have more than the permitted number in their house or garden, don’t impose new restrictions without allowing Parliament to debate them first. All are issues on which the Governments in Edinburgh and London […]

This week we heard of the tragic death of police Sargent Matt Ratana in Croydon, London. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and his colleagues; we pray they will know the Lord’s presence guiding and supporting them through this difficult time. Sargent Ratana’s death is a stark reminder of the level of

A new Job Support Scheme was announced on Thursday. Businesses will be working out whether they will take advantage of it to save jobs: some welcomed it and said that it will help them greatly, some said they weren’t sure, others said it would do nothing to help them. There is a great fear that

What will we think about today: students, the Job Support Scheme  – or stockpiling toilet rolls! I know the world has changed a lot since I lived in a Hall of Residence or student flat, but keeping physically distanced etc in such circumstances is very, very difficult. Many a second, third or especially fourth year

As has been much remarked upon, it is now 6 months since we went into lockdown. I remember at the time someone saying something along the lines of ‘I don’t know what the fuss is all about. It’s going to be reviewed in 3 weeks. So we’ll get back to normal after that.’ Now the

New restrictions in place (though for some of us, some were already in place) and the elephant in the room – this and more may be in place till at least the Spring – has been acknowledged. Even allowing for exemptions for ‘bubbles’, childcare etc, there is no doubt that the picture is not attractive.

22 September Autumn Equinox The beginning of Autumn, and news full of warnings about tighter restrictions as Covid case numbers rise. How will we respond? Will we become gloomy and focus on what we can’t do, on shorter, colder, wetter days? Or will we accept the restrictions and look forward to Autumn colours, smells and

World Alzheimers Day Most people know someone who has dementia, or families living with dementia, and many have experienced it at close hand in a friend or loved one. It is a cruel illness that robs someone’s personality – sometimes changing it as well as taking away treasured traits. Many of us have a niggling

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