One Story, Many Issues

The news of a sex therapist whose appeal against his sacking by Relate over a clash between his religious beliefs and his refusal to counsel a gay couple features on both the BBC and Guardian websites today (as many news stories often do). What strikes me in reading both presentations of the story is the [...]

A Question (and an Answer)

Not one but two Guardian articles today – the first posing  the (humorously expressed) question of who reads so-called ‘misery memoirs’, and why? and another story detailing the life of somebody who has just produced one such memoir. I don’t know if it is mere coincidence that these stories appear together on the Guardian’s website, [...]

You Have the Power

An article on the Guardian’s website today makes for interesting reading (if you like that sort of thing), but it’s the headline that particularly moved me to write about it. Can Meditation Stop Me Getting Angry? asks the journalist, as she describes an experience of meditation which does, it seems, lead to a change in [...]