Since many of us will be going off to different places to do different things in the next couple of weeks, I thought I would wrap up this term’s offerings with an eclectic mix of ideas from my reading as a way to stimulate debate around the dinner table or wherever your family may gather over...

This week’s offering is a second and final visit to Oliver Burkeman’s ‘Four Thousand Weeks (Time and How to Use It)’, which did not entirely float my boat and solve all my problems, but which nevertheless provided some interesting food for thought and reminded me of a piece o...

Following on from last week’s review of ‘Chums’ by Simon Kuper, it feels like there is enough material from the book to justify another blog.  Above all, I need to reinforce what I took to be the key message, which is that the people who have been in charge of running our coun...

  For the last blog before the half-term break, and in the week when we held an information evening about university applications for our Lower Sixth pupils and their parents, I offer a little more from David Goodhart and his analysis of the state of the country in the thought-provoking...

The short answer to the title of this blog would be, ‘Lots, because that’s what happens in life’, but this week’s offering is not meant as an exercise in too much deep reflection.  Rather, it was the title I used for my latest cycle of assemblies this week, sharing with...

I was looking through my various folders of notes to try to bring something different to the end of term assemblies before Christmas when I came across a list that I could not remember using before.  The upside of being the Head of two different schools is that you can recycle material you used...