Universities and alcohol

At the risk of sounding a killjoy, I totally support a suggestion by the UK’s accident and emergency doctors who want to end boozy Happy Hours for student freshers’ weeks which kicks off shortly.The alcohol consumption levels are worse for students who...

Writing a personal statement for university

I went to a parents’ meeting at my youngest son’s school last night to advise us about his university application which has to be submitted soon. Yes, how did the years fly by so quickly!This presumably hadn’t been a problem for my eldest son as he...
Gavin Henson needs to see sense

Gavin Henson needs to see sense

Gavin Henson, the Welsh rugby international player who became a household name as the boyfriend of singer Charlotte Church,  tells us in a newspaper interview that he wants to quit his club for “compassionate reasons, and the mental state of my mind”...
Forgiveness and Richard McCann

Forgiveness and Richard McCann

I met Richard McCann this evening and, like the entire audience at Cambridge’s Inspired Business Group, sat mesmerised as he told us his devastating life story and described how he had overcome one major personal catastrophe after another. Being born with ginger...