Good news should come with a drum roll surely? When news is actually good, it should grab attention and make us all feel positive about life. But when the good news comes as a whisper, unexpectedly, perhaps even as a secondary meaning of what is heard, it is both...
Are you working long hours, food shopping for the family on your lunch break, scheduling sports and leisure activities for any free time, looking to upgrade your technology, car, life? Our culture of ‘do it now’ ‘work for more’ ‘make it better’ seems thoroughly...
Imagine the city as a forest in a fairy tale. A complex, diverse place with no wide landscape, just roads threaded between buildings connecting people and communities. It is a home for stories to be told and heard, a place to explore, perhaps to get lost, and...
It is a truism that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. If you are talking about the parts of a bicycle, for example, then yes, it is clearly true. But what about in human lives, can something incomplete or broken be greater than something whole? As David...
To my mind having Sara Maitland come to give the Hook lecture in November trumps Le Grand Depart as the most exciting thing to happen to Leeds this year. If you have not read Sara Maitland yet you should give it a try. One good place to start is Gossip from the...
