Apr
16
2019
Leave friends I have are always pointing to independent countries that are doing well despite not belonging to a big trading block, South Korea, Norway and Switzerland for example. But when I started looking into it I found that...
Apr
10
2019
7/7 (performed at Edinburgh as The Circle Line)
By Thomas Jackson
Cast:
Michael Gibson
Michaela Gibson
Prologue
At the back of the stage are two free-standing door frames. Between them and nearer, but not too near, the front a sofa.
Enter Michael and Michaela. They stand...
Apr
10
2019
Plastic England
By Thomas Jackson
Cast:
Jim Wheelwright
Mavis Young
Jim Wheelwright is discovered sitting in a wheelchair waving a transistor radio above his head and cuddling and kissing it. Mavis, his carer, is dusting, sweeping and generally tidying up
Jim: My beautiful! My love,...
Apr
05
2019
Yes a convicted criminal did sway the balance in the vote for Cooper's bill and that is an irony that deserves the pen of a great tragedian. But let's not forget that the whole Leave campaign in 2016 was...
Mar
25
2019
Did the miracles in the New Testament really happen? Most of them probably not, but that doesn’t mean they have nothing significant to tell us. I once knew a man who had been at Cambridge when Wittgenstein was...
Mar
24
2019
Fascinated by a TV film last night about Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth Williams. The bland mendacity and patronizing hypocrisy of the colonialists was well and subtly caught. I don’t think I’ve been shocked by anything so much as...
Mar
24
2019
A theological blog 24 iii 19. Spellbound in my prayer this Lent by the absolute nothing of which so many mystics talk. Also reading Eliot's Ash Wednesday as I have done every Lent for years. But now as if...
Mar
10
2019
Lent. How amazing that instead of falling down before some god and offering him a few best bulls you can pity his wounds. What a turnaround in the history of religion. How Christ’s wounds open your heart as no...