My sympathies for Nadine

My sympathies for Nadine

I lay in bed last night thinking about Nadine’s dilemma. I expressed my disappointment yesterday that she had switched off her comment facility, which I feel is crucial to a blog. Nadine indicated it was a time-issue, without mentioning that she had been...

Religion v motherhood

How can a mother choose religion above motherhood? It’s tragic beyond belief that a young Jehova’s Witness mother, aged only 22, died just hours after giving birth, having signed a form refusing a blood transfusion. How blindingly painful for doctors to...
Nadine’s "cult" blog

Nadine’s "cult" blog

The Sunday Telegraph waxes lyrical, it is gushingly in awe of Nadine Dorries’ blog, with its frank shoot-from-the hip style of writing. She is dubbed "Bridget Jones MP". This is what the article says: Dorries has also become something of a new-media...
Oops! Wrong wedding and funeral

Oops! Wrong wedding and funeral

Hearing how a woman unbelievably went to a cremation she thought was for her son – only for him to turn up alive and well the following day, reminded me how I once inadvertently gate crashed the wrong wedding party. However, while I had not met met the bride,...
The missing – Madeleine McCann

The missing – Madeleine McCann

Yet another story is published today about a reported sighting of Madeleine McCann in Morocco. A woman told detectives she even recognised the distinctive fleck in Madeleine’s eye, where her pupil runs into her iris. Naoual Malhi, who alerted police about the...