There may not be as many laugh out loud moments as usual at the moment, but I had one inadvertently on Sunday morning when I was flicking through the BBC news website, where they show a copy of the front pages of the main national newspapers each day.  The Mail on Sunday is about the last paper...

In the latest edition of the newsletter that is circulated to the leaders of schools in the Dukes Education group, Aatif Hassan highlighted a fitting analogy about where we find ourselves at the moment, likening the situation in response to Covid-19 as being one where we hav...

As I mentioned in my letter to parents earlier this week about our plans to reopen the school building after half term, there has been some interesting feedback in the last couple of weeks about how some of the children who are usually the quieter ones in school have been able to thrive during the p...

The presentation was numbing, but the results were clear: the vaccine worked.  Inside the auditorium people tearfully and joyfully embraced…church bells were ringing across the country, factories were observing moments of silence, synagogues and churches were holding prayer meetings, and...

I’ve already begun to lose track, but I think we are coming to the end of our fourth week of lockdown.  I’m not sure the drama of the title ‘lockdown’ matches the reality of the experience, because we all seem to be wandering about more than might be expected u...

The explorer and mountaineer George Mallory is reported to have used the phrase, ‘Gentlemen, we are stepping off the map’ when he first climbed to the higher reaches of Mount Everest in 1921 as part of an expedition to find a route to the top of the world.  Three years lat...