A lovely experience this week, while on a trip to Manchester for the annual conference of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA). I was visiting Chetham’s School of Music at the kind invitation of…

The backdrop to our lives has become an anxious one - affected by opinions over BLM and our response to equality, diversity and inclusion; Everyone’s Invited and the #MeToo movement; together with a…

A week ago today thousands of young people marched through Glasgow in a demonstration to campaign against climate change. There was much frustration with COP26: Greta Thunberg declared it an obvious…

All around us, we see signs that nature is gearing up for the next spectacular season. Before the cold, bleak winter months set in, nature celebrates this time in a blaze of golden glory. Warmth and…

Today’s theme is a single word, but a powerful one. It is a word that carries so many meanings that its entry in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary takes more than a page, spread across ten…