Essex Chronicle Thought for the Week. Context: Spring 2012, and the moon has company! Venus transition is coming…. As a Physics teacher, I love to take stock of experiences that tell us that our everyday lives are played out within the awe-inspiring enormity of space: Earth, solar system, galaxy, universe….. Of course every day, sunset … Continue reading
A Thought for the Week for the Essex Chronicle Context: August 2011. Post ‘summer of unrest’, the annual hand-wringing about exam results.. and that gap just won’t close. Broken Britain is the headline concept of the moment. At this time of year there is usually a national debate about standards in schools. Following the riots, … Continue reading
Context: April 2011. Fed up with persistent prejudice and surge of ‘chav’ comments. We’d all sign up to a campaign to eliminate prejudice and discrimination wouldn’t we? Would we? I sometimes wonder. On the surface, society has come a long way in the last decade or so. There is more public tolerance and a deeper … Continue reading
A piece for Thought for the Week, Essex Chronicle October 2010: My first one. Context: Party conference season.. and John Lennon’s 70 birthday, October 2010. (JL and I have the same birthday… not that this is relevant to anything, except that I always remember!) “Imagine all the people, living life in peace”. John Lennon b … Continue reading
