No Struggle with Stragglers

No Struggle with Stragglers

In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono released a song that has become a cult anti-war song, entitled ‘Give Peace a Chance’. It referred to all the different ‘-isms’ that people throw out as justification for their actions, to all the ‘-tions’ that people promote endlessly...
Go Fourth and Multiply

Go Fourth and Multiply

If we were to ask the majority of pupils what school sports team they would like to be in, most would undoubtedly shout out without hesitation “the First team”; the dream of every young aspiring sportsperson is to make the First team, the ultimate, the highest. The...
My Child Would Never

My Child Would Never

From Bond to Bourne, we love spy movies. Literature is littered, after all, with spy stories from authors such as John Buchan, John le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton. We have ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ and ‘The Spy who Came in from the Cold’, ‘Tinker...
Never Work with Animals or Children

Never Work with Animals or Children

We probably have never heard of William Claude Dukenfield; there is no disgrace in that, not least as it was not the name that he came to be known as. However, even if we reveal that his name was W. C. Fields, many of us will probably still be no better off in knowing...
First Things First

First Things First

“Drum roll, please…. So, ladies and gentlemen, we come to that point for which we have all been waiting… The winner of this year’s exciting competition is……..” Long, long pause, with musical background for greater effect! Cameras pan in on the nervous faces of the...