Opinionated Vicar

What do the following have in common: Formula 1 Afghanistan elections Westminster MP's Derren Brown Several Premiership football clubs H...

Though the Catholic church seems to have recently mislaid its moral compass , it was not always so. Long before they were linked to the chur...

It's been quite a week for democracy and people power. Barack Obama's first inaguration was the media event of the week, with every...

Fear not, brave credit crunch commuters. As you sit in never-ending traffic queues at the rush hour, wondering if you'll have a job to g...

Review of Marcus Trescothicks excellent and painfully honest autobiography just posted at the Wardman Wire , so go there for the full monty,...

Amid all the tinsel, baubles, half-eaten turkeys and re-runs of the Muppet Christmas Carol, lets get back to the true meaning of Christmas f...

I've posted a critique of the Governments welfare reform proposals, announced during the week, at the Wardman Wire. You can read the ful...

Five people in a balloon, you can only save 3, they are: - A journalist who can't dance - A member of the BNP - A talent show judge - A ...

Great word. What does it mean again? There's a battle of the long words at the Wardman Wire, where I've posted on Antidisestablishme...

Taking a funeral is one of the hardest things I do. Having two in one day on Tuesday all but wiped me out for the rest of the week. It start...

I'm not sure I agree with the Pope. "We see it now in the collapse of the great banks that money disappears, it's nothing,...

Matt Wardman has this deeply disturbing story. Well, ok, not that disturbing. Keep an eye on the Wardman Wire from about noon today, for my...

After a summer break (thanks to Simon Sarmiento for filling in), weekly 'Touching Base' columns at the Wardman Wire have restarted. ...

In case regular readers - I think there are 2 of you - are wondering what's happend to the 'Touching Base' thingy I used to do a...

the latest Touching Base will appear at Wardman Wire later today, but you saw it here first.... Science and God, despite Richard Dawkins att...

Did a Touching Base piece on Saturday at the Wardman Wire on the need for time out , but forgot to link it. In a way it's a non-religiou...

My latest Touching Base column is now online at the Wardman Wire. It deals with those creatures of political myth, the 'hard working fa...

I've posted some thoughts on the recent report 'Moral, But No Compass', on the role of the Church of England in delivering state...

Beggars and Choosers: In a consumer, choice-driven society, the question of British identity will never be settled. Consumer choice is all a...

I've a new Touching Base column at the Wardman Wire on some of the casualties I'd like to see should the threatened recession materi...