‘Travel to distant and exotic places. Meet interesting and exciting people, and then kill them.’ Spike Milligan once offered this as a parody of a military recruitment…
My maternal family was Welsh and their attitude, although living in England, was that the English class system was a nonsense. They felt they were as good as anyone. This attitude…
During the autumn of 1918 several subjects were on the minds of Friends and filled the correspondence columns of the Friend. There was the question of the League of Nations, with…
Why have ‘mental health’ issues become so prominent in government and media spheres? Individuals, families, communities, nations and, indeed, populations can be seen to be…
If someone asked: ‘Do Friends pray and, if so, why, and how?’my answer would be: ‘Yes, they do pray.’ There are interesting, anonymous, contributions on this subject in the…
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