Tag Archives: #Brexit

The Lost Leader

Posted on February 22, 2019 in the Uncategorized category

I am thinking Brexit- or not. In moments of doubt and darkness, I find myself not for the first time rereading  Graham Greene, a fellow Catholic who struggled throughout his life with no small number of  existential and political crises of his  own, and yet still managed to draw sufficient creative inspiration and faith in God and humanity as an author and journalist. In a review of   Postscripts published in the Spectator on the 13th December 1940, Greene paid tribute to the way the novelist J.B. Priestley’s broadcasts lifted the …

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A Vital European Bridge

Posted on July 10, 2017 in the Blog, Misc category

  A true story I owe to my late Spanish mother, a post-war immigrant to the UK , involves  a state visit of the the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, to the UK in October 1954. I was a young child then and with one my first life-time  passions that of watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The precision of the proud British soldiers in red coats  and the uplifting music of their band stirred my imagination, making me feel one of them, as if I’ve stepped into …

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