9th November 2018

A foreign country

by Simon Colbeck

‘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…

9th November 2018

Eight years on

by Shelagh Robinson

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…

9th November 2018

Tyger Tyger burning bright

by Noël Staples

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…

9th November 2018

Let your life speak

by Rebecca Hardy

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…

2nd November 2018

The London Adult School Union

by Jonathan Lingham
2nd November 2018

Stone soup and street parties

by Catherine Henderson
2nd November 2018

The elephant in the room

by Jamie Wrench
2nd November 2018

No alternatives

by Brian Hodkinson
2nd November 2018

Poppies and conscience

by Robin Waterston
2nd November 2018

Being true to myself

by Rhiannon Grant

‘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…

2nd November 2018

Thoughts on equality

by Patricia Gosling

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…

26th October 2018

Work, worship and play

by Alison Smedley