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Showbiz veteran Lionel Blair dies aged 92 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8561c9c0-3db3-11ec-9bef-aa3112940013?shareToken=0d8bc2c5010416808feebc72267a7b49 Many years ago I was told this story by a movie producer in LA. He told me that his friend was making a new movie and that Hoffman was in it. He enquired ‘ what Dustin ‘ , his friend replied ‘ no Justin ‘. He thenContinue reading “The Other Blair”

At the Last Supper on the night before He died Jesus asked his twelve Apostles to ‘ remember me ‘. Not a great deal to ask yet one was about to betray Him and one was about to deny Him. Nonetheless what happened next is still remembered today two thousand years on. In the twoContinue reading “Remember .”

Paul in his Epistle to the Romans 12 v 14 says.‘ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.’Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury at COP on its opening day spoke about the world leaders ( presumably him included )“They could have been brilliant in everything else they’ve done, and they will beContinue reading “COP this.”

Read the Bible and see the Owners Manual for your life. How many of us ever read the owners manual in the car ? In the book of Leviticus Chapter 16 we read the Hebrew tradition where two kid goats are taken with sash placed around their neck. One goat is left to live ,Continue reading “The Scape Goat”

About 15 years ago the then greatest store in the world , Harrods of Knightsbridge sold to gas rich Qatar. One million square feet of space building and running business fetched £1500 per square foot or £1.5 billion. It was not the greatest store in the world because I had once worked there as aContinue reading “Bricks and Mortar.”

On 15th October the limit on Contactless payments rose from £45 to £100. This in my view was more significant than the day we turned to a decimal currency, again on the 15th but in February 1971 or 50 years ago. Then we saw the era of great inflation requiring the need to raise interestContinue reading “The Pound takes a Pounding.”

In the first two verses of Psalm 51 , David cried out for forgiveness to God for his sin and calls that he to be cleansed, to wash away his iniquity. Sorry is a word uttered from many lips but is it a genuine cry or just said to appease, accommodate for convenience whom weContinue reading “Sorry”

The lush grass with morning dew greets the morning rains as the crows croke and birds sing. It’s morning in England’s green and pleasant land far from the heat of Jerusalem in the autumnal season. Out of nowhere a man appears with two big bags full of white posts which like an IKEA salesman heContinue reading “Grass Roots”

Ronald Reagan famously said that Status Quo was Latin for ‘ Look at the Mess we are in ‘ . It was from America during a call last Friday pm, with Dallas, that my colleague informed me that the British MP , Sir David Amess had just died from multiple stab wounds , assassinated whilstContinue reading “What A Mess.”

Scientists in the main say that Planet Earth was created around 4 billion years ago. Believers will say around 6,000 years ago from Genesis. Scientists in the main claim creation was effectively a Big Bang accident, whilst Genesis speaking of the Creator God laying it all out in 6 days and resting on the 7thContinue reading “Let’s Pray for Change for a Change.”