There is an old joke, usually among football supporters, that despair is bearable, but hope brings misery.  If you are used to your team performing badly week after week, you somehow learn to endure.  However, once in a blue moon, the right manager for the right moment manages to coax some...

At the end of my section in the bulletin last week, I made reference to an interview with the historian and broadcaster Neil Oliver, in which he made what I thought was a very interesting point about the way that events cycle through time.  He said that in his work he reads...

Now that term is up and running, with a growing sense of routine, for the time being at least, it seemed like a good time to go round to each year group and share a few thoughts with them in an assembly.  In the past, which is a much easier expression of time than ‘the...

In follow-up to some of the comments from Dr Phil Hammond in Private Eye that I highlighted last week, it seems appropriate amid the ongoing confusion about key messages to give some thought to masks and their recent ubiquity, despite being told for months that they were not necessary and...

A new school year begins, with all its exciting possibilities and opportunities.  There are lots of new pupils in the school, and new parents as well of course.  There are remarkably few new staff for once at Radnor House, which I suppose is hardly a...