‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,’ wrote LP Hartley in the The Go-Between, a novel of lost innocence, written after the second world war but set…
It is just under eight years since I ‘came out’ with my diagnosis of dementia in an article in the Friend. Since the diagnosis so much in my life has changed. This is nothing…
Derek Guiton’s thought-provoking ‘Thought for the Week’ on William Blake’s poem ‘The Tyger’ (10 August), big bang theory, and beauty and transcendence reminded me of…
Sara Barnard has appeared in the Friend before – at the age of eleven her poem ‘See God’ was published in the magazine. Fast forward to today and the former attender at…
‘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…
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